Rollins College - Tomokan Yearbook (Winter Park, FL)

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The oldest member of the Rollins Family is our beloved Dickie Bur- ton. But there is no one younger in mind, and his classes come close to the ideal of the Socratic method of education. HERE AT

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ON THE RO J-h t c e Cr ) i e w jp o l n t± DR. HAMILTON HOLT D R Dr. Hamilton Holt takes time to talk to a student. The Conference Plan, which abolishes the lecture and recitation systems and brings the students and professors into somewhat the same personal relation that one will find in a well-conducted business or professional office, has proved itself a success in the ten years it has been in operation. Indeed, I suspect this is the vital factor that has turned Rollins in a decade from a local parochial college, little known outside of Florida to what I believe now to be the only cosmopolitan college in the South. Students who come from other colleges and have been under the prevailing educational systems, always point out that the intimate relation to the professors is the one thing that enables them to get more out of Rollins than the colleges from which they came. But colleges, like individuals or groups who dare to go out on the firing line, often find the pressure and excitement are so great that they have to return to comparative safety to recuperate their strength and courage. Some of our professors inevitably tend to slump back into the old easy, but I believe deplorable ways of marking, grad- ing and examining, cutting the beginning and end of the two-hour period and lengthening the intermission. I cannot conceive of anyone interested in any subject who cannot concentrate his mind and attention for two hours at a stretch on it, pro- vided his relation to those about him, whether fellow student or professor, has the Arthur D. Enyart, Dean of Men. Mrs. Helen G. Spra3ue, Dean of Women. C1BJPH1 1 R I C H A