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...group of tutors and undergraduates in Dunster House established several months age a House Forum which has proved effective in fostering the best type of education than many pretentious systems of examinations or course requirements. Although it has attracted less attention than various economic and historical societies in the House, the Forum is a less ordinary organization, and one of potentially greater influence...
...Forum's bi-weekly meetings Professors McIlwain, Tozzer, Sorokin, and Matthiessen have been asked to defend their subjects as college disciplines, and their talks have usually led to vigorous debate. The one thing which the Forum has not done is to reach any settled conclusions as to the relative value of the fields of history, anthropology, or sociology. In its discussions, however, fundamental questions of ethics, art, and education have been raised. It is in putting these questions, in defining basic issues that the Forum has been of value...
...discovered those problems and asked the right questions, the mind ignores many relevant facts. It is an outstanding weakness in college instruction that it presents students with masses of facts without showing why the facts are important, without showing to what fundamental problems they are relevant. The Dunster House Forum is an excellent instrument for cantering attention on the basic difficulties of thought...
...addition to pointing out essential issues, whether in history, in literature, or in ethics, the Dunster House Forum has provided a rare occasion for valuable training in dialectic. Socratic dialectic is probably the most neglected mental discipline in the regular college course, and anything which encourages it is a useful stimulant of intellectual vigor...
...Politics as a career for college men" is a stock subject for freshman heelers to get signed articles on for undergraduate dailies. All freshman heelers were scooped by the April Forum, which contained a piece on "Young Men in Politics" by Connecticut's Governor Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby") Cross, who used to be dean of Yale's graduate school. Are there any young men to compare with Thomas Jefferson (a William & Mary alumnus) or James Madison (Princeton) or Alexander Hamilton (Columbia), all of whom went early into public life? "There are some hopeful signs," said Governor Cross...