Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-06-20

""N iNt oieleu DE the departing class.
owing to the fact that he had been
at the annual meeting of the board Of
| trustees. Prof. Franklin w. johnson.
guest of honor of the senior class. an
pcarcd late and was ushercd to the
stand by Marshal Smith. Prof Johnson
apologlZed to the members of the class
ana me audience for appearing with
| out his academic dress of cap and
gown and explained the reason why.
| Professor Johnson is at the head Of
the department of education at Column
bla University in New York City and
was graduated from Colby with the
class of 1891. His address was based
en- education and was as follows:
| Address by r. w. johnson
For the past year l have done my
work to the ceasclcss accompani-
mcnt of the electric drill cutting into
(. the rock of Manhattan and of the
! lveter making firm the steel frame
OF two million dollar building to
house the Library of an institution
! devoted to the training of teachers.
| This is typical on the material side.
OF what is taking place in every part
OF our vast country. The rapid eX-
! panSlon of the facilities for educa-
| uOn is quite adequate to meet the
needs of the still more rapidly in
creasing number of those who seek
instruction. OF the million boys and
| girls enrolled in the Public Schools
OF New York City many thousands
are housed in temporary buildings, i'll
suited for this use, while other
| thousands arc restricted to part time
| attendance. More than 5000 boys are
enrolled in one High School and as
! many girls in another. In spite of a
| building program involving millions
! OF dollars Yearly. the number of
pupils is increasing more rapidly
than provision for their housing.
| The increase in our school enroll
ment during the past 20 years is
| without precedent in any country.
During the period of compulsory at
| tendance the increase has been at
! about the same rate as that of our
| population as Il whole. In the high
! school, however the attendance has
! grown more than twelve times as
| rapidly as the population of the
| country. There are now over two
| million pupils enrolled in our sec
| ondary schools, and the rate of in
crease during the last five years has
| been greatly accelerated.
| The enrolment of our higher in
stitutionS is increasing at almost an
equal rate with that of our second
AIRY schools.
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| OF restriction have been proposed and
| adopted. 1t is doubtless true that not
all who go to college are greatly
. benefited and some are a positive
! hindranCc to the achievement Of the
! end for which the college exists. 1t
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! II is imnortart ia consider carefully
.bo cffoc+ Of tbo nroeo,,t unusual elm
| ot;o, ,,non tho small collage We az
! Colhv bavo cI,orod in tho ;ncroasad at
| tendance ana have reioirod in thc con-
! siderable accession to the material re-
| sources of tho college in recent years.
| But it is moro important that Colby
| he a good college than that she be
! big college. 1t is quite as necessary
| that the smaller college take steps to
! improve the quality of its work and to
| raise the standards of its life as for
I the larger college Indeed. this is even
! more important, if the peculiar advan-
| tages of closer association between
students and instructors and among
| the students themselves. which have
! been claimed for the small college. are
/ to be retained. The disparity between
the salaries Of teachers in the small
| and large colleges is greater than ever
| before. The presidents task in raising
| funds and our obligation TO supply
them will not be fulfilled until the
| means are at hand to maintain fac
! ulty of the highest quality. There will
also inevitably result a tendency for
! the applicants rejected by the larger
| colleges to sock admission to the small
with the danger of lowered morale
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