Recognition from the West

Mass production colleges and lack of association between professor and pupil have always been the targets of educational reformers. Two solutions are proposed: enlisting the aid of the student in his own education through comprehensive examinations; and a small and intimate community of teachers and pupils as the ideal setting for intellectual stimulus.

The advantages of the two solutions are obvious. For the comprehensive examination the student must do independent research, and is held for a knowledge of one particular field. His interest in that work is greatly stimulated. When undergraduates and professors are associated in a like activity their intimacy is inevitable; and this in turn leads to a common intellectual interest and a common place of work. Here may be found an atmosphere where minds may grow, and, "by attrition," to repeat President Lowell's words, "provoke one another." Daily Californian.