Emporia State University - Sunflower Yearbook (Emporia, KS)

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iT H E A A K A H yt uui (-e- -uu-u . T)ean of the Qollege The method of scientific investigation and conclusions as the basis of administration, beginning in the elementary schools, has gradually crept up (or down) to the college level. As a result, in the last ten years, traditional methods of instruction and administration have been examined and found wanting. Since the elective system was introduced by the late ex-president Eliot of Harvard no great or radical changes in the college have taken place. We are now, however, on the verge of a revolution. The discussion method is replacing the lecture method, the improved content, cut and dried, selected by a teacher is being replaced by cooperative research bv student and teacher, and responsibility for learning is placed upon the student, not the teacher. The ventures of Rollins, Swarthmorc, Antioch, Reed, the Experimental College at the University of Wisconsin, the Oxford housing plans, tutoral consultations, honors courses, comprehensive examinations are evidences of these deep movings of the spirit of higher education. Not all these ventures will succeed and survive, all are subject to change in the future, stable equilibrium will not be reached for some years, many failures will occur, but out of it all will come a better college education adapted to a new world. CONRAD VANDERVELDE, A. M., B. D., D. D. Professor of Psycholoi;) ' aii.l Pliilowphy 9

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A K A il The Tresidenp-- A Christian college like the College ot Kmpori.i occupies a unique place in the program of popular education. It is a small college, but its influence is out of all proportion to its size. Through the intimacy of its quiet life, it is building a distinctive type of character. It has made a conspicuous contribution to the world ' s best lead- ership. It is also a college of liberal arts. It strives for culture. It stands for an appreciation of the higher values and a devotion to the finer things of life. Its faculty is imbued with this spirit and its campus breathes this atmosphere. It is a Christian college. The Bible is in its curriculum and the princi- ples of our holy religion are at the center of its thought. In a day when religious instruction has been banished from our national system of secular education the Christian college presents the last court of appeal in our edu- cational system for a free and untrammcled discussion of the things of the spirit. We welcome into our liberal and friendly atmosphere young men and women who want to make the most of themselves in the development of the finer qualities of personality and to fit themselves for rendering the largest service to the world. V? 9

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A K A il Daniel A. Hihschlcr, Mus. B.. A. A. G. O. Dean ot School of Music Professor of Organ, Piano. Theory, and Hislory of Music Oberlin Conservatory of Music: Wllhelm Middle- schulte. of American Conservatory of Music. Chicago: Mus. B. American Conservatory of Music: Associate. Amirican Guild of Organists: The College of Emporia. 1914. not; «■ ' E ELi-N Gardner. A. M. Dean of Women Profesior of English I. B.. Beloit College. 1918: A. M., Radcliffe. 1921; Carleton College. 1920; Pomona College, 1921; The College of Emporia, 1924. Rev. C. R. Miller Asststanl lo the President Graduate of Huron College; McCormick Theo- logical Seminary: Bueiia Vista College; The College of Emporia, 1930. [ 9 3 ' mn