INbroary 17,1933
ATHLETICS
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BASKKTBALL
Some big surprises have been
sprung in the practice games
that liavc been going on for the
past three weeks. The Fresh
man team liag played 4 games
and won them all by a big mar
gin while the Juniors have played
S games and only lost 1 to the
Freshmen. The Sophomores
and Seniors have shown fight but
they do not seem to be able to
get the top end of the score.
Holsabeck, Liles, and Coving
ton have been leading their
teams’ offense, and they have
been well backed up by Dockery,
Castlebury, Eaton, and Bullard.
Helsabeck has scored the most
points for her team so far with
Liles running a close second.
The Juniors have been play
ing fast basketball this season—
if anytliing, tliey are better than
last year’s ’34 team—^but the
Freshmen just played faster ball
than they did to get the only
game that the Juniors have lost
this season.
MEREDITH FACULTY
DISCUSS PRESENT
COLLEGE CURRICULUM
(Continued from pago one)
guages, arts, sciences, volitions,
or philosophies—has value, then
does it not inevitably follow that
curricula or courses have rela
tive vahu}9 Since the oolle^e is
educating for the present and
the future, if it has a weahneas,
does it not lie in two possible
Helds; first, a failure to select
from the sum total of human ex
periences those which have most
relative worth for the youth en
trusted to its care; and second,
a failure to so teach and. relate
them to present day problems—
soeuil, political, industrial, edu
cational, and religious—that
the student will obtain the
greatest possible value for the
time and energy expended in
their acquisition?”
Mrs; Lillian Wallace, of the
History and Education Depart
ments, says:
“The fundamental weakness
of the present day college cur
riculum as I see it is that it is
an agj>'lomeration of subjects
lacking in unity and real pur
pose. Each part of the cur
riculum is the product of histor
ical development, and is compre
hensible only in tl»e light of the
historical ^rces which pro
duced it. The result is some
what like a basket luucii where
all the contributions are heaped
upon the table. However good
the individual items may be the
result of an attempt to sample
them is sure to result in indiges
tion. There is no doubt as to
the mental indigestion of great
Aumbers of our college students.
I do not think the problem can
be solved by adding this course
or topping that one off. One
does not avoid Indigestion by
^iing more pickl(» and leaving
off one piece of pie. What is
needed is a totally new point of
view which seeks to discover the
real aim of higher education;
investigates the method by
whicli aiiy individual appropri
ates the materials which ai-e to
enable him to achicve this ob
jective ; and Anally, examines all
curriculum offerings from the
standpoint of t1»eir adaptability
to tliis program. This would
undoubtedly recessitate not
only a (change of courses but a.
change of content, and especi
ally a change of organiaation of
the curriculum so as to produce
a unified and harmonious
whole.”
According to Miss Ellen D.
Brewer, head of the Home Eco
nomics Department:
^‘There are certain practical
considerations that of necessity
have a part in shaping the col
lege curriculum, and I do not
believe these should be disre
garded. But if we could add
courses without leaving out any
of those that all of us agree are
fundamental, or if we could in
crease the curriculum to five
years, I should like to see more
education for leisure. Our high
est development probably de
pends more on bow we" spend i
those moments when we are free
than on how we use the time
when our occupation holds us to
the beaten path. I wish It were
possible for home economics
majors to have more courses in
literature, in art, and in music.
And I likewise believe that ma
jors in other fields would find
cultural value in a course in
home economics.”
The opinion that “The \N'eak-
ness in many college curricula
is that they arc not in line with
the aims of the institutions or
the needs of the students” is ex
pressed by Mr. Canaday, profes
sor of mathematics.
Dr. L. G. Winston, chemistry
professor, thinks tlmt one of the
weaknesses of the college cur
riculum of today is “too many
courses in education.” Anotlier
professor also gives her opinion
that there is too much attention
paid to “methods” and not
enough to “content.”
Dr. Johnson of the English
Department says:
“College must subject its men
to a general intellectual train
ing which will be narrowed to
no one point of view, to no one
vocation or calling. It must re
lease and quicken as many fac
ulties of the mind as possible,
not only release and quicken
them, but discipline them and
strengthen them also by putting
them to the test of systematic
labor. Work, definite, exacting,
long continued, but not narrow
or petty, or merely rule of
thumb must be its law of life for
THE TVIG
those who would pass its ^tes
and go out with its authentica
tion.”
Woodrow Wilson, What is a
collegc for?
The ideal embodied in the
quotation from Woodrow Wil
son is an ideal which tlie Amer
ican eollegos are in grave dan
ger of forgetting. In their at
tempt to appeal to young people
of college age (I refrain from
using the word students) of
varying types with varying de
grees of ability, many of the
American colleges have broad
ened their curricula, and made
more elastic their requirements
—a breadth and elasticity
gained, again using Wilson’s
words at tl»e expense of “such a
preparation, and development
of hi.s [the student’s] faculties
as will give him movement as
well as mere mechanical effi
ciency in affairs complex, diffi
cult, and subject to change.”
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