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...Research of individual personality, brain tests, and mental analyses are products of the last few years. People are gradually beginning to realize that it is possible to look inside a man and understand his actions from the previous experiences and habits of his mind. Criminal punishment and the problem of the insane have only slightly benefitted from these new methods. A great deal can be done in the future along all lines of personal welfare. Dr. Allport's efforts deserve the most serious consideration...
...With Mr. Baker's gift it is our expectation," said the report, 'that a complete plant will be built, comprising quarters for dormitories, dining halls, administration, classrooms, research, student and Faculty clubs, auditorium, a factory building for industrial management instruction, and athletics. Proper provision for extension will be made where this may be necessary. The plant will accommodate 1000 students. It is not expected that the buildings will be ready for occupancy before the fall of 1926. It is the hope of the Faculty that this School will not exceed 1000 students for an indefinite period in the future...
...charged to students. We expect that the dining halls will be run without loss, in the interest of the entire student body. It is expected that the dormitories will yield net about 5 per cent on the cost of construction. This income will be used toward financing our research. It is not, however, expected that it will be entirely sufficient for this purpose, nor is it considered desirable that the School assume all the costs of research. Nevertheless, this new income should climinate the danger to our research organization of too great dependence on hand-to-mouth financing which...
This conclusion was reached after extensive research which has been carried on for a period of months by President R. M. Hughes of Miami University. Realizing that there was no authoritative rating of the universities of this country by subjects. President Hughes selected twenty commonly taught subjects and invited prominent men from all parts of the United States to vote, each on his own subject, as to what university led in the excellence of its teaching. The subjects were. Astronomy, Botany, Chemistry, Classics, Economics, Education, English, French, Geography, Geology, German, Government (Political Science), History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology, Sociology, Spanish...
Swarthmore has subordinated all courses to individual instruction. Their tutorial system is intended as an aid to men going out for distinction in their fields. They are building up the best that the method is not intended to guide men into academic work or research or other particular forms of career, but to men that they may achieve honors, rather than all undergraduates that this may round out their comprehension of college courses...