Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-13
Professors from NE. COL
Ieges Meet at BowdoIn.
LeadingEducalors DiscussQues-
lions Proposed by Colleges.
Fifiy.Fifih Annual Meeting--A Few
More Subjects for Discussion.

brunswick. Me-. Nov. 12.-(SpeciaD.-
The 55th annual meeting of the New
England College Association is being
held here at Bowdoin College. ~ large
number of the leading educators of
the country are in attendance. The
first assemblage of the delegates was
held, Tuesday afternoon. in Hubbard
hall and there a number of questions
proposed by the different colleges were
thoroughly discussed. After the meet
ing had adjourned, tea was served to
the delegates by the committee of
arrangements consisting of Mrs. Hen
ry johnson, Mrs. Frank Woodruff, and
Miss Chapman.
The meetings will be continued,
Wednesday morning
Subjects For Discussion.
The subjects proposed for discussion
by Association of N. f. Colleges were:
A general examination for gradua-
ton on the subject to which the stu
dent mas devoted his main attention
in college: who and what shall deter
mine college entrance requirements;
how far should the college become pa
ternal in it's attitude toward students;
to what extent should the college COM
ply with the demand of the High
schools for more elastic requirements
for admission; should a thesis or its
equivalent be required of all eandi=
dates for the Baccalaureate degree; Isl
it desirable to substitute subjects for
courses as examination units; is II
desirable that all courses occupy the
same number of hours of classroom
work per week,-and if so. what num-
Der is found to be the most practice
able; intercollegiate departmental Wis
itation as an academic policy; are the
advantages of a system in which q
student carries five courses with class
work three times per week, superior
to those of system in which he car
ries either three courses with meet
ings FIVE times per week, or certain
courses with meetings four times anu
others with meetings twice weekly; Is
the group system meeting eXpecta-
lions; what advantages does the group
system offer in the small college; is
scholarship in our small colleges de-
teriorating or improving. and what
are the best incentives for good schol-
arship and what the most adequate
penalties for poor scholarship; how
may the loyal energies of the alumni
be directed toward the serving of the
best interests of the college; advisory
councils to college presidents, consist
ing of faculty members; their desir-
ability and jurisdiction: what sort OF
college statistics, if any, would be
most generally helpful to the colleges
Of this association, if collected and
published by ALL faculty CONTROL
should the small college continue TO
give a degree of A. M. pro merito?
Colleges Represented.
The colleges are represented at the
meeting as follows: Harvard Univer-
sity. President Abbott Lawrence Low
ell. Professor William Bennett Munro;
Yale University, Dean Frederick
Scheetz Jones, Professor Greuer;
Brown University, Dean Otis Everett
Randeu Professor James Quayie
Dealey; Dartmouth College. President
Ernest Fox Nichols, Professor Gordon
Ferry Hull: University of Vermont,
Professor Samuel Eliot Bassett; VII
tiams College, President Harry Angus
tus Garfield, Professor Henry Danlei
Wild; Amherst College, Presiden'
Alexander Meiklejohn. PROFESSOR
Thomas Cushing Esty; MidaiepurS
College. Professor Edward Day cor
Inns: Trinity College. Professor FRANK
Cole Rabbits; Wesleyan University
Professor Frank Walter Nicoisoh'
Tufts College, Professor John Sterhns
Kingsley; Boston University, Dean
William Marshall Warren. Professor
Norton Adams Kent; Clark uhlVer-
sity. Professor Henry Taber; ciarh
College. President Edmund Clark san
ford: Bowdoin College, President wal
liam Dewitt Hyde. Dean kenne,h
Charles Morton Sills.
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