Rollins College - Tomokan Yearbook (Winter Park, FL)

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THE CONFERENCE PLAN Putting Socrates on an eight hour day, or brii.ginj purpose of the Conference Plan of Study originatec strived to show to us and to the world that character must not be learnini to live but life itself. Individualized Education r, student and teach( r closer together is the underlying by Dr. Holt. During the past twenty years, Dr. Holt has is the goal of all intellectual endeavor and that education When the student first arrives at Rollins, he is given a series of aptitude tests to help him judge his capacities and deficiencies. Guided by an advisor of his own choos- ing, he then works out a plan of study for the Lower Division, which will include subjects in the arts, the sciences, and the humanities, and give the student a broad base for the specialization to follow. At the end of his sophomore year, he is expected to liave completed his Lower Division contract and to be ready for advanced work in his major field. After pre- senting his qualifications, the student then is admitted to the Upper Division, and works out another contract for work in his major field, upon the completion of which he is leady for graduation. Immediately preceding graduation, the applicant must 14

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WENDELL C. STONE, A. B., Pomona College; Ph.D. Yale University, and pro- fessor of philosophy at Rollins . . . has been temporarj ' Dean of the College since 1941. With pleasure we can now say that he has been appointed to that position permanently. It is Dean Stone who successfully brought RoUiiis through the war years, and no phrase could express the magni- tude of this feat. m Just two years before we came to Rol- lins a new Dean of Women arrived — MARIAN VAN BUREN CLEVELAND . . . Despite her short stay here she has endeared herself to the campus by her charm, her grace and, most of all, her ability to know what to say and when.- Educated abroad, she speaks French fluently and has an added advantage of an European culture. 13

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submit his qualifications again to a Sen- ior Committee, who, after thoroughly looking over the student ' s record and conferring with the student, decide whether he is eligible to graduate. During four years at Rollins, the stu- dent becomes well acquainted with the faculty by means of small classes and individual conferences held every two weeks. In this way, personalized educa- tion is the keynote of this progressive system. Considering the student ' s per- sonality and temperament, Rollins makes its family partially responsible for its own education by the most pleasant means possible. The Senior Bored? A typical conference 15