Individual Training in Our Colleges

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Macmillan, 1907 - Education - 434 pages
 

Contents

CHAPTER V
39
Value in college advertisingTypical cases of evil methods and effects
52
The faculty men of all work Size of classes Faculties small and non
54
Early examinations public Sitting of solstices
57
CHAPTER VIII
64
CHAPTER IX
72
y? 195
75
no knowledge of hygiene Primi
78
Early medical books in Latin Doctors of medicine were clergymen
84
CHAPTER XII
90
CHAPTER XIII
95
The learned men were leaders Their culture was not veneerOur
96
A harmful tradition surviving the fact Failure to coördinate German
101
Present school and college enrollment
109
High school secret societies Wholly unlike college fraternities Their
111
CHAPTER XVII
113
160
115
CHAPTER XXIII
117
CHANGE IN THEIR OBJECTS AND AIMS
118
CHAPTER XIX
121
CHAPTER XXI
130
176
134
Reversal of educational methods illustrated
135
Public universities need no endowment or tuition Property and income
138
PRESENT COLLEGE CONDITIONS AS TO COLLEGE AND INTER
141
Alumni and colege athumes TIONELE
154
Colleges of by and for clergymen Numbers of clergymen at Harvard
160
The right basis thereforOur coaches must teach honor not success
166
PRESENT COLLEGE CONCTIONS
167
CHAPTER XXV
174
Individual Training in technical schoolsA West Pointers opinion
178
Evil effects from institutional standpoint Tone of scholarship lowered
186
Failure to provide new stimulus and trainingTrying to deceive our
188
Results of culture courses Sloth carelessness inaccuracy Moral
194
Early Individual Training in Prit
201
tude of modern corporations
207
HISTORY
208
Our students need mature counselors
246
College failures concealed Must be decreased
252
Demoralization from lack of system Advantages of small educational
258
Handicaps during college From increased competition
270
THE RESPONSIBILITIES AND Duties of our College ALUMNI
278
Alumni must introduce modern ideas
284
Why our colleges lost their monopoly Training and pleasure Mental
292
CHAPTER XXXV
298
CHAPTER XXXVI
304
The rule of the seniors Responsibility upon the seniors
310
Council needs general secretaryTo relieve voluntary workers
321
IS A NEW INDIVIDUAL TRAINING NEEDED AND ATTAINABLE
331
Two fine old business rules Judged according to your lightTo thine
353
College course and college curseHelp to select his course His col
356
TreatmentQuestioning fundamentalsThe youths nascent strength
362
Send forth problem solvers not cheap sports Failure to study student
368
A definite plan Coöperation
374
Evolution of the fraternity home
380
Finale
381
51
383
And reach individuals Local alumni and general secretary Cam
388
52
389
Report of the committee on improving instruction in Har
397
Remarkable report of Harv
400
students
409
Early conditions as to Physical Exercise
410
Number of students in public and private institutions
413
And that perverted And exalted to chief importance Not even
414
Failure to appreciate German concept New Individual Training a life
415
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Wanted problem solvers College should produce them Professions
428
189
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And study
430
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