Rollins College - Tomokan Yearbook (Winter Park, FL)

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Students of History, under Dr. Rhea Smith, answer syllabus questions and then Newspaper and Magazine course with Mr. Willard Wattles gives practical work- Mudents msto y, pro fessor. knowledge in journahsm. Here open discuss.on is held. H - rrfllflfff PRACTICE TEACHING OUTDOOR CLASS

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CONFERENCE PLAN vs. SPOON-FED WAY by Peggy Hudgings To substitute learning for instruction is the object of the plan of individualized education in practice at Rollins. The college, instead of promoting a group of spoon-fed students, wishes to insure its men and women of a well-rounded and complete life, which is open only to those who, possessing a liberal culture, are freed from the prejudices of partial knowledge. To encourage curi- osity and interest, to stimulate and to open new fields for study is the basis of the Conference Plan which has been successfully used in Rollins for 14 years. Individualized education is a term used to describe the very foundation on which the relation- ships at Rollins are built. There is no attempt made to drill a student in a specific skill, instead, he is given a chance, when he has fulfilled the basic requirements of mature knowledge, to select his major subject and to pursue the study of it.

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Urgent need, first on the list of proposed new buildings in Rollins building program, is a new library. Present library, housed in Administration Building, is not even large enough to store books. Pictured above is part of present library. CONFERENCE PLAN (Continued) One purpose of the Conference Plan is to humanize education as far as possible by bringing the student and professor in closer contact. During the conference period, the time is spent in study, personal conference with the professor, small group discussion, writing class papers, preparing out- lines, and in studying matters incident to the mastery of the subject. The college, by having, as far as possible, personal interviews with all the incoming students, scruti- nizes very carefully the individual himself, and collects valuable biographical material that is of im- portanc e to the major professor and advisor. Each student, in addition to having a professor of the subject he plans to major in to be his scholastic guide, is assigned a faculty advisor who, in coopera- tion with him, plans his courses and is in close contact with his accomplishments and desires concern- ing his work. The four class ratings of freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior are virtually abolished at Rollins, and instead a Lower Division and Upper Division are established. In the Lower Division the emphasis is placed on generalization, and in the Upper Division on specialization, although the gradual transi- tion makes for speedy progress. The Integrated Course plan was instituted this year after lengthy consideration by the Committee on Educational Survey, a group made up of students and members of the faculty alike. The pur- pose of this system is the all-important process of relating information. Accordingly three new