Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-09-27
COLLEGE WORK
BY DR.. W. r. Harper. Pres. OF
Chicago University.

SAANo5S 1
There are ten difficulties with when
the small college must contend III 10
development. These are: 49,,
L. The development of the hlgh
school. 2. The legitimate tendency III
educational work toward specia11sm. O.
The weakening Of the sectarian spl!i.'
the spirit in connection WITH "nieE
many of the small colleges nave hau
their origin. 4. The development VI
professional schools and the pollcS
adopted in larger institutions OF allow
ing college seniors to substitute for the
regular college work the first year OF
the professional school. 5. n raplo
development of the university ldea. Q.
The prestige of the larger institution.
Z. The difficulty of maintaining the Id
Guilty in the smaller institution. q. Inc
habit of moving from a small lnstlLu-
ton to a larger institution. y. Ihe oe-
veIopment of the State Universities anu
the -antagonism which has come to e1-
list between the State institution ana
the small college. 10. The lack or
money with which to do the work de-
handed in these lays OF modern
Methods.
Many colleges will become Junior col
eges-that is, colleges doing the Hrsr
ina second years OIL COllGS0 WOAA, WIN
his work associating perhaps that or
The preparatory department Or acad-
INV. These six years form a perloo
which stands by itself.
The work of the freshman and sopho-
more years is only the continuation OF
academic or high-school work. Only
1t the end of the sophomore year are
university methods employed.
Some of the small colleges will be re-
$500 Tx-o-%u ~ Auyon+v
i've per cent. of the colleges now char
| :ered are doing work little if euy high
! er than that of an academy.
| Ar institution with only a thousand
| books in it's library, with a scientific
! apparatus which has cost less than
J Il, 900, with a building worth less than
40, 900, and with a total income Of $4,000
20 SIS, 900 cannot do college work.
There will arise in the coming years
greater variation Of ype. The small
college to-day is everywhere practically
IF the same type. Each college is really
L duplicate of it's nearest n~efghbors.
This will come in the establishing OF
colleges for particular purposes-a col
eye, for example, for the study OF
science, or for the study of literature,
,r for the study of historical subjects.
The time is coming when institutions
will cultivate i~ndividualism, one inst1-
luton throwing it's energy into one line
IF work, another institution into an
)ther line of work-a policy in striking
contrast with the present plan in &C
.ordance with which every college an
1ounces courses in every department
IF human learning.
There will also exist in the days that
are coming a closer association of the
small colleges with the larger institu-
ions or universities. The great advan-
tage of such association will make its
existence certain, for institutions, like
individuals, move along the lines OF
least resistance.
Among these advantages will be
found the in~termingling of teachers
and lecturers of the large and small
Institution, the recognition of univer-
sity appointment thus bestowed direct
ty and Indirectly upon the Instructor
Of the college, the opportunities fol
special investigation furnished by the
university to the instructors of the col
lege, the special assistance of many
kinds which the university can rem
der to the college, the prestige secured
to the degrees of the college in view
Of the re-enactment of such degrees by
the university, the loan of books anG
apparatus to the college by the univer-
sity, the establishment of ~fe1loWships
and scholarships in the university opeT
to students of the college, the financia
confidence created by this association
upon the basis of which larger endow.
ments may be secured to the college.
and, in general, hat help which {
stronger agent may furnish to one no
so strong in the accomplishment of thu
Iatter's work.
UGH cooperation will give to thu
smaller colleges of a certain district {
dignif1ed position by the side of the
State institution. It will be, in fact, {
federation Of colleges, and through thi'
federation each Of the interested col
!eges will be able to strengthen it's ia
Guilty.
There is no reason why a specials
in a certain department might not b
the servant of two or three institu
tons, to the advantage Of the subjec
represented and the colleges thus asso
ciated. Such association will open u
new possibilities for the small col1eg'
and will secure for it privileges which
are to-day beyond it's reach