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HONORS COURSES
The leading: editorial of the May
Nebraska Alumnus, entitled "Reward
for the Honor Student," presents a
partial solution for one of the most
interesting present educational prob
lems. In the University's effort to
ward mass education a necessary
immediate outcome of the ideal of
universal education individual stu
dents have been subordinated in the
interests of the mass. In recent
years special attention has been paid
to the sub-normal student, but the
exceptional student has been neglect
ed. By "exceptional student" is
meant one who is hindered by the
routine of required class attendance,
one who is able to progress faster
than the average, or one who bene
fits more from independent study
than from the lecture or the class
room. To allow this type of student to
use his own judgment in the matter
of attendance on lectures by freeing
him from compulsory class attend
ance and from the book-keeping ma
chinery with which we are so famil
iar is the plan of Wesleyan Univer
sity at MirMlefown, Connecticut
"Wesleyan intends to stop keeping
books on the comings and goings of
her honor students," says Dr. James
L. McConaughy, the president. "In
the near future, juniors and seniors
who rank above the average will be
told that they need not attend
classes except when they believe it
' will be the most beneficial thing for
them to do. It is ridiculous to treat
men of proven ability and maturity
as though they were children." Wes
leyan expects by this method to de
velop more individual responsibility,
more self-dependence, more initia
tive and aggressiveness toward real
scholastic attainment on the part of
the students of the List two year
Such a pln would serve also to weed
out those who are ambitionless and
insincere unfit -members of a uni
versity. This is just one of the means
proposed at the present time for the
benefit of the exceptional student
It is often true that students grant
ed this privilege are not only those
of very high averages with respect
to grades, but those whose abilities
for independent work have been de
monstrated. Other attempts to liberate the ex
ceptional student from the machine
like routine of the classroom have
included the idea of sectioning on
the basis of ability, proposed and
defended by Dean C. E. Seashore of
Iowa; the Princeton system in fields
of concentration; the junior-senior
college; and honors courses such as
are now working at Smith, Swarth
more, and Columbia. It is important
to point out in connection with the
last, the honors course, that honors
are awarded usually for special work,
in addition to the regular program,
now used in varying degrees by sev
enty-four colleges and universities
(about fifteen state universities) ;
or for honors courses superseding the
ordinary requirements being used
now in seventeen colleges and uni
versities. The honors course offers one of
the most satisfactory plans for the
exceptional student. While it would
be Immediately impractical in a state
university, it is a goal which is not
too distant, and toward which it is
well to work by degrees, according
to the sentiment expressed at a re
cent conference on honors courses
held at Iowa City and representing
mid-Western colleges and universi
ties. The Swarthmore plan, which is one
of the most complete, and which has
been in successful operation for four
years, starts on the basis of a frank
differentiation between students who
ere interested in intellectual life
a-d those who are not, and the recog
! on of the necessity of allowing the
i '.ler students more responsibility in
vr'ilrr out their own intellectual
fV.i'jon. Students are admitted to
L I
their junior year. Students them
selves elect to read for honors and
era aHmltlad after ahowinff either a
"B" average or above, special ability
in one field, or special Independence
in laying out tasks and performing
them. The first two yearl are al
lowed for completing required
courses in English, mathematics, his
tory, science, and language.
The honrs student is excused from
ordinary requirements of class atten
dance, semester examinations, tests.
He is expected to make use of the
regular courses at the advice of the
advisor or tutor. The student is
reading all the time for general, com
prehensive examinations at the end
of his last two years. His reading is
done under the direction of a tutor,
one of the older and better-trained
men in his department. Weekly sem
inars are held to crystallize his Ideas
on the material read.
The honors student has his work
outlined, not In terms of what he is
to do, but what he is to know. Ht
studies, not a course, but a subject.
He organizes his own material, sets
his own tasks, finds his weaknesses,
and, in general, works out his own
salvation. In the end, the student
appears before a committee of ex
aminers from other institutions than
his own and writes, as well, eight to
twelve-hour, comprehensive examina.
tions, covering the field of his two
years' study. Smith College has a
similar plan for the major subject
or the major department of a stu
dent's study.
It is not necessary to argue that
the exceptional student should be
permitted to develop as fast or as far
as he is able. The leaders in the in
tellectual life of a university may
well become the intellectual leaders
of the state or the nation. The pres
ent condition of mass education, over
flowing classes, and disarranged cur
ricula presents a situation which
tends to force even the eceptional
student into an obscurity from which
he should be rescued. While the gen
ius will educate himself no matter
what the conditions of things may be,
the "exceptional" student, as we
have defined him, may not realize his
full possibilities unless he is assisted.
Having thrown out the academic life
line to the sub-normal student, and
since we are successfully putting
through the universities the normal
students, it is time that special atten
tion be paid to the exceptional stu
dent for whom the state and the na
tion have the greatest need.
V. VAN V.
Student Opinion
Sir:
We desire to give public notice of
the following resolution which was
passed and adopted by the engineers
in their convocation held on May 8,
at ten o'clock . The resolution reads:
"In this emergency, due to the sud
den and unwarranted influx of golf
ers, minus clubs and bags, but other
wise fully equipped, on our campus,
and resenting this attempt to assist
the local men's furnishings stores to
establish this custom, it is the opin
ion of the College of Engineering
student body in convocation assem
bled on May 8, that these molders of
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Speaks at Sigma Xi Initiation;
Dr. Swezey Elected New
P resident.
"Today the drudgery of the strug
gle for existence has largely been
transferred to machinery vitalized by
mechanical power, thus making uni
versal education possible by sparing
youth from the farm and factory,"
declared Prof, villiam L. DeBaufre,
retiring president of Sigma Xi, in
speaking on "Mechanical Power" at
the Sigma Xi initiation held Friday
evening at the University Club.
He traced the development of me
chanical power, showing that it ha
had a marked growth during the past
century. The Koman and Oreelc civ
ilizations rested largely on slave la
bor, but at the close of the Vst cen
tury, over fivo horsepower was avail
able for every man, woman, and child
in the United States. As a man's
power is less than one-tenth of a
horsepower, it is easy to see that the
custom refrain from wearing knick
ers while on the down-town campus.
"Furthermore, we heartily com
mend the stand taken by the mem
bers of the College of Law in promis
ing to remove, by force if necessary,
any knickers worn by any member of
that College on the campus.
"Further, we will treat any mem
ber of our college in a like manner,
but do not agree to supply the pro
verbial barrel.
"While heartily approving of indi
viduality and courage, yet we are
content that the twelve leading men
in school who are thus defying estab
lished custom should be representa
tives of other colleges than ours."f
" We are, Sir, etc.,
ROSS McGLASSON.
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present power Is equivalent to more
than fifty slaves for each Inhabitant
of our country.
Prof. DeBaufre emphasised the.
fact that research In utilising me
chanical power is required in order
to minimise the expenditure of fuel
for the accomplishment of the desired
result.
Data a Sherman Speaks
Dr. L. A. Sherman, Dean of the
Graduate College and guest ( hon
or, traced the early history of Sigma
Xi preceding the formation of the
local chapter and recommended fre
quent meetings of the faculty organ
ization to promote acquaintances and
friendships among the members.
The new officers are: Dr. G. II.
Swescy, president; Dr. II. II. Marvin,
vice-president; Dr. M. G. Gaba, treas
urer; Prof. Emma N. Andersen, sec
retary; and Dr. P. H. Wolcott, coun
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Notices
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editorial office, U Hall 10, by 4.00
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Ileation
Cosmopolitan Club
Members of the Cosmopolitan Club
will hold a dinner and election of
officers Sunday at 10 o'clock in the
Elk's Club rooms.
Catholic Student Club
The Catholic Student Club will
hold an Important meeting and
breakfast Sunday, May 17. Nomina
tion and election of officers will be
held at that time. Plans for the an
nual picnic will also be made.
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NOTICE TO CRtDITORS
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
UNITED 8TATKS FOR THE DISTRICT OP
NKHRASKA, Lincoln DlvUInn,
In tha mattsr of Photo Kpacialty House, a
partnership compoaad of Ulrsies O. Cornall
and Kloranre E. Taylor and Uluss O. Cor
nail and Florsnce E. .Taylor aa Individuals,
Bankrupt.
In Bankruptcy No. S. Notlca to eradl
tora of application for discharie and ordar
to show causa.
To tha creditors of tha sbors named bank
rupt :
Notice is hereby given that en ths t(nd
day of April, ItiS, tha above named bank
rupt filed his petition for dischsree In bank
ruptcy, and t
IT IS ORDERED that the 17th day of
June. lt2, be and the same Is hereby fixed
sa the date on or before which all creditors
of said bankrupt and all persons Interested
in, said eatata and In the matter of the dis
charge In bankruptcy of the said bankrupt
shall, If they desire to oppose the same, file
in my office In Uncoln. Nebraska in said
District, their appearance In writlnit In op
position to the frantins of said discharge,
and also, within ten days thereafter, file in
my said office specifications of ths (rounds
of ssid opposition.
Dated at Lincoln, Nebraska, this 12th day
of May, 125.
DANIEL H. McCLENAHAN.
Referee In Bankruptcy.
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