Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-22
COLLEGE WORK
(By Or. w. r. Harper, Pres. ofsChicag
University. E.

There are ten difficulties with whidh
the mail college must contend in its
development. These are:
J.. The development of the high school,.
2. The legitimate tendency in educa-
tional work toward specialism. 3. The
weakening of the sectarian spirit, the
spirit IN connection with which MANY
81 the small colleges have had THEIR
origin. 4. The development Of profess
sional schools and the policyr,adopte
in larger institutions. of allowing COL
lege seniors to substitute for. the regular
college work The first year of the pro
fessional school. 5. The rapid develop
ment of the university idea. 6. The
prestige of the larger institution. Z. The
difficulty of maintaining the faculty in
larger institution. 9. The development of
moving from a small institution to a
larger institution. 8. The development of
the state universities and the
ism Which has come to exist between
the state institution and the small col
lege. 10. The lack of money with which
to do the work demanded in these days
of modern methods. ~
Many colleges will become junior col
leges-that is, colleges doing the first
and second years of college work. with
this work associating perhaps that of
the preparatory department or acad-
envy. These six years form a period
which stands by itself.
The work of the freshman and sopho-
more years is only the continuation of
academic or high-school work. Only
at the end of the sophomore year are
university methods employed.
Some of the small colleges will be re
duced to academies. Twenty or twenty
five per cent. of the colleges now char
tered are doing work little if any higher
han that of an academy. ar
An institution with ony a thousand
books in it's labrary, with a scientific
apparatus which has cost less than
81, 1000. with a building worthless than
4 10000, and with a total income of $4,000
to $4,000 cannot do college work.
There will arise in the coming years
greater variation of type. HI small
college today is everywhere practically
of the same type. Each college is really
a duplicate of it's nearest neighbors.
This will come in the establishing of
colleges for particular purposes-a col
science, or for the study of literature,
or for the study of historical subjects.
The time is coming when institutions
will cultivate in~dividualism, one insti-
tuition throwing it's energy into one line
of work, another institution into an
other line of work-a policy in striking
contrast with the present plan in zac-
cordance with which every college an
nounces courses in every department
of human learning.
There will also exist in the lays that
are coming a closer association of the
small colleges with the larger institu-
tions or universities. The great adyan-
tage of sue association will make its
existence certain, for institutions, like
individuals, move along the linests of
least resistance. =
found ai'' the int interm ahvahasseo Of w teaehs rs
and lecturers Of the large and small
institution, the recognition. of unixer-
sity appointment thus bestowed DIRECT
lv and indirectly upon the instructor
of the college, the opportunities sfor
special investigation furnished by Sthe
university to the instructors of the COL
lege, the special assistance of many
kinds which the university can rem
der to tn ecollege, the prestige secured
of the re-enactment of such degrees by
the university, the loan Of books and
apparatus to the college by the univer-
sity, the establishment Of fellowships
and scholarships in the university open
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. that help which a
stronger agent may furnish to one not
so strong in the accomplishment of the
latter's work. ,
Such cooperation win give to the
smaller colleges of a certain district a
digniffed position by the side OF the
state institution. 1t will be. In fact, a
federation each of the interested col
leges will be able to strengthen it,
faculty.