Association of American Colleges Bulletin, Volumen12The Association, 1926 The Mar. issue carries the Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Association. |
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Página 193 - ... the agreeable and improving commerce of gentlemen and of scholars; in a society where emulation without envy, ambition without jealousy, contention without animosity, incited industry and awakened genius; where a liberal pursuit of knowledge and a genuine freedom of thought was raised, encouraged, and pushed forward by example, by commendation, and by authority.
Página 192 - But in addition, the general effect of honors work at Swarthmore College has been to break down very largely interdepartmental barriers. I can very well remember my own Ph.D. epoch, now somewhat remote in the past, when thanks to the provisions of the catalogue with regard to graduate study, I was presumed to have a knowledge of one major and two minors, the major being political science and the minors, economics and philosophy. In the more than a quarter of a century that has elapsed since then,...
Página 39 - Society shall be a President, a Vice-President, a Secretary and a Treasurer, who shall be elected by the...
Página 138 - That the problem of gathering these price quotations is no simple task, but indeed one of the most difficult, as well as one of the most important...
Página 191 - He would have seated a rival assistant professor opposite him, whose business should be strictly limited to expressing opposite views. Nothing short of this would ever interest the professor or the student; but of all university freaks, no irregularity shocked the intellectual atmosphere so much as contradiction or competition between teachers. In that respect the thirteenth-century university system was worth the whole teaching of the modern school.
Página 289 - Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy...
Página 39 - Association of American Colleges The Association was founded in 1915 and is the national organization of colleges of liberal arts and sciences. Its purpose as defined by its constitution is "the promotion of higher education in all its forms in the colleges of liberal arts and sciences which shall become members of this Association, and the prosecution of such plans as may make more efficient the institutions included in its membership.
Página 48 - Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown. AC Baugher. Franklin and Marshall College. Lancaster. Theodore A. Distler. Geneva College, Beaver Falls. McLeod M. Pearce' Gettysburg College, Gettysburg. Henry WA Hanson. Grove City College, Grove City. Weir C. Ketler. Haverford College, Haverford.
Página 191 - He wanted to help the boys to a career, but not one of his many devices to stimulate the intellectual reaction of the student's mind satisfied either him or the students. For himself he was clear that the fault lay in the system, which could lead only to inertia. Such little knowledge of himself as he possessed warranted him in affirming that his mind required conflict, competition, contradiction even more than that of the student. He too wanted a ranklist to set his name upon. His reform of the...
Página 114 - ... 1. Healthful living 2. Application of fundamental processes to simple scientific and social phenomena 3. Discovery of interests and aptitudes 4. Maximum use of native capacities 5. Participation in a variety of aesthetic and recreational activities 6. Membership in the school group 7. Establishing and maintaining high standards of conduct in personal and group life 8. Contributing to worthy home life 9. Evaluating the past and determining its contributions to the present 10.