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...Washington and the Navy have almost ideal condiditions for rowing. Both of them have water at hand, the Navy has excellent equipment, and both get the strongest men; Washington gets men who have lived outdoors and are rugged. Annapolis gets the pick of the country...
...Taylor, Dean of Science at the New Mexico State College, to "The New Student" shows that there exists a real dissatisfaction with educational methods. He proposes that all college students who find something lacking in the present American University cooperate with him in the formation of an ideal school--three hundred selected scholars and a faculty of untrammeled professors." There would be no regents or trustees, no hierarchical graduation, and presumably no outside activities. Apparently Professor Taylor advocates something like a return to the old system of sitting on straw and learning when and where one willed...
Whether or not anything comes of the suggestion, its more proposal is significant in that it gives voice to a widespread discontent with the present mechanical, mass production system. Professor Taylor's college is not the ideal. He does not, for instance, mention such vital necessities as the elimination of hour examinations, in fact of any examinations of the present type; nor of disciplinary measures such as that relic of school days, Probation, so that any student who could not do the work, or who lost interest, would simply be expected to make room for one more suitable. Perhaps, however...
...many extra curriculum activities at present: if anything there are not enough. To give the student nothing to do with his time except to forage for knowledge when and where he will is productive in the long run only of indolence or dilettantism or pedantry. The ideal college must combine with the much-desired individualistic emphasis, the present many-sided pressure...
...absolute standard is ideal theoretically; practically, it has been found that in most subjects, except the exact sciences, a relative standard is the only useful one--that is, the best men are given A's, the worst E's, and B's. C's and D's are dealt out following roughly a standardized grade-curve. With an absolute standard, it is conceivable that no one should attain an A or an E; with the relative standard, it is inconceivable...