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Educators have long dreamed of a Utopian circle of earnest, well-meaning students, an ideal working unit, with no professors to hamper free intellectual development by the imposition of mechanical exercises and bootless reports. Discussion in this happy family would replace lectures; and idea-killing assignments would be unknown. The difficulty, of course, has been in finding the earnest students. But now, university education appears to be returning to its sources, and the mediaevalist recalls the scenes in Bologna when the students at the University drove their unpopular instructors from the gates of the town...
...bright picture of the present holds many attractions for purists, and undoubtedly, the exemplary conduct of the Princeton class reinforces their position. But regardless of the improbabilities of such an ideal institution, the disciples of indifference who flee from possible instruction at "seven minutes after" may well look to those purposeful students for inspiration. The spectacle of a Harvard class functioning without its professor would split the hands on Memorial Hall clock...
...will not help; changing their quality might. But chiefly it will be a matter of making prospective students understand the aims of the college. They must know that they are not wanted if they come merely to increase their earning capacity. They must be brought into sympathy with the ideal of an education which trains not for immediate power in one position, but for potential power in any. Discrimination, then, will be necessary; not of race or creed, not even of mentality; it will be discrimination on the basis of purpose...
MERTON OF THE MOVIES?Glenn Hunter as a movie-struck youth pursues a drawing-room hero ideal and finds his mission in the movies strictly comic...
...student should choose for his field of concentration that subject which is of all most dear to him. Whatever his calling in life, he should provide the means, now while there is time, for building him a little world of the ideal in which he can find relief from his daily task and a new inspiration for it. The literature of Greece and Rome contains such a world, remote from the present and forever akin to it. Nor should a concentration restricted to the Classics be regarded as a narrow programme. The ability to read authors like Thucydides, Aeschylus, Horace...