Moberly Area Community College - Mojuco Yearbook (Moberly, MO)

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MARVIN F. BEACH Dean of Movberly Junior College

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Marvin Franklin Beach, a nian whose nanie is always proniinent in educational inovenients. acted as the able head of the Moherly -lunior College in the Inaugural Year of its activity. The universal esteni which is his, is the result of the advice and co-Operation which has char- acterized his eight years of service to the Mo- berly Schoel System.

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The Junior Colleze Dr ROV L yyilbur Stanford University. summarizes the case for the junior college in these sign1i5C21Hf WOfflS1 The presence' of the junior college in a community means that an opportunity is offered for those in their teens to give themselves a thor- ough try-out, without great economic disadvantage and without leaving home after high school graduation. The great CX1J2l1lSlO11 ill U16 SVC of the student-bodies in the colleges and universities of this country. gorging them beyond any possibility of successful instruction, has com- pelled the creation of the junior college. The large student mortality in the freshman and sophomore years of the great universities has been mortifying and humiliating to thousands of our youth. The junior col- lege offers the opportunity for students to find out more about their own interests and capacities, and helps them through the preparatory stages if they know that they want to become lawyers, teachers. doc- tors, business men or women, research workers, and so on. lt provides for those who have neither the capacity to profit by university instruction nor the necessary financial backing, the chance to round out their edu- cation by two years of work of college grade, given usually in smaller classes and vvith more personal supervision than is possible in the larger colleges and universities of the country. Experienced and capable teachers who plan to make teaching a life work make up the faculty of the junior colleges. The boy or girl who is developing maturity slowly will thus have a much better opportunity under such instruction than is possible in the crowded classes of the ordinary university, taught by be- ginners oriby the lecture system. . dll hile serving as a trying-out place for the youth of the country. the Einior college, by relieving the university of the elementary work of the rst two years. can set the American university free to carrv out its own great purposes. These institutions can offer, too, an Oppgrtunitv fm- those boys who are mechanically minded and for those girls who are ClO1 '- f ' - s . . . . . . . Uestlsallb mlllflefl, so that while delevoping their abilities in using v can also obtain a better appreciation of their bodies in useful ways the time-S i ' - - ' . . s 3 DOW them llY W01'lX 111 languages, historv, mathematics, govern- nien ' , - t, and other subjects, and thus acquire a broader culture. in We can lool ' - - 4 UPON the Jllnior college movement which is noxv as the most wholesome and sig- cation in the present century. spreading tliroughut the United States nificant occurrence in American edu