Page Four.
THE SALEMITE
Saturday, January 1 0, 19,3]
Rollins Conference
Plan Explained
The Purpose of the Modern
Method of Class Room
Conduction Stated by
the President
Mr. Hamilton Holt, former edi
tor of the Independent and now
president of Rollins College, Winter
Park, Florida, described the Rollins
conference plan of education
revolt against the usual lectures and
recital system.
He declared that the traditional
“cut-and-dried lectures and quiz sys
tem” turned students into sponges,
and that “no one ever got an educa
tion by being a sponge.”
“The conference plan is an adven
ture in old-fangled education,” that
frequently a student does not know
how to study, that he most needs the
professor when he is preparing his
lesson and not after he has learned
or failed to learp it. Instead of
professor quizzing students. Presi
dent Holt said, the students quiz the
professors.
(Extract from The Davidsonian.)
lii THE VALUE OF READING
President Hibben of Princeton
cently stated that the university
student of today is becoming
bored with himself that he seeks
longer a way of escape but rather
resigns himself to hopelessness and
ends in wasting more time than
Perhaps the so-called “bull ses
sions” are indispensable. The pro
found and important questions of
life must be settled; but there i
extreme. Unquestionably the
jority of us waste a great deal of
time. Could not we, instead of ut
terly throwing away valuable min
utes, use some of them in the rec
reation of reading.!’
Whether it shall be poetry, fiction,
essay or drama, depends largely on
one’s particlar taste. Perhaps a
special study of plot, characters or
historical settings will be desired.
Well and good, for surely there are
many books to be had that are stim
ulating, instructive, and entertaining.
Read to find and to enrich oneself
with a larger knowledge of human
nature. For after all there is a dis
tinct difference between the book
worm and the scholar. The former
uses books as a substitute for life,
the latter uses them as a help to
understand life.
(Extracts from an editorial in
The Davidsonian.')
Brazil—
Ten Italian planes made a re
markable cruise across the South
Atlantic from the coast of Africa to
Brazil, a distance of 1,600 miles.
Two others in the group of twelve
that started from Bolama, Portu
guese Guinea, were forced down as
they neared the coast of South
America. The crews of both
believed safe, but one of the planes
was reported destroyed. Warships
were dispatched to the assistance of
the planes and their crews.
Turkey—
Many deputies in Parliament
arguing that it is almost impossible
to collect debts in Turkey and are
therefore urging that a law, abol
ished last year, be restored. It pro
vided imprisonment for debt.
Raleigh, N. C.—
The 1931 General Assembly of
North Carolina convened at 12:10,
Wednesday, January 7.
France mourned her “savior,”
Marshal Joseph Joffre, with all the
splendor due one of the generation’
outstanding heroes as the funeral
procession passed through the st
of Paris from Notre Dame cathed
ral to the Invalides. Princes, gen-
•als, and statesmen, whose names
•e famous throughout the world
marched in the procession with
maimed privates who served Joffre
the trenches.
SIMPLE THOUGHTS
(Continued from Page One.)
have to start all over aagin . . .
wish it were the style to wear big
hooped ear rings and lots of glass
beads—perhaps I have African in
stincts . . . Katchie Lyerly does
3r write-ups—if she doesn’t give
I good one I’ll pan her in this
paper—and that’s both a threat and
promise ... If we had a gym,
5 could have a gym complete with
covered swimming pool—if we had
a covered swimming pool . . . Who
remembers the good old days when
e had potato salad on Saturday
ights ? ... How many know
what kind of columns the Main Hall
are? . . . Did you ever plan
to spend your free days after exams
home and then look at the sched
ule and find you have Latin on Sat
urday afternoon.? Did you ever?—
O well, perhaps it will help to teach
that “Life is real. Life is earn
est, and it’s goal is not—week-ends.”
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