Springfield College - Massasoit Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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journalism wliile one is taking his ( ' ollege course. Many of the schools ot commerce, like the Wharton School at the lhiiversit ’ of PeimsyK anki, are established on the same ])lan, and the technical institutions which seek to ht men for leadership in industrial life are in most cases tonr-year nndergradnate courses. The ])lan |)roi)osed at Springheld will estaltlish a great oca- tional college which will ht men for religions leadership among boys and young men. It is anticipated that many of the abler students will go forward for graduate work elsewhere. In securing an education one has two aims — personal develop- ment and a ’ocational training. It is possiltle to secure a training for personal development first and then one’s professional or voca- tional training, or one may major in his vocational subjects and follow cultural subjects while he is securing his professional equip- ment. This latter iilan gives a vocational motive for all stud ’. It determines the selection of one’s cultural subjects. It creates the habit of study for personal development as well as for vocational advancement. In training for social service this is, we lielieve, the better jilan liecan.se the subjects which ht one for social service also have cultural value. Such branches as sociology, psychology, history, and literature, which form the foundations of culture, are at the same time the very means when properly ai)plietl for htting a student for religious and social leadership. The danger is not that one will specialize too early, l)ut that he will become absorbed in his specialty and neglect liberal culture. Every genuine educational institution must keej) both of these aims in view if it would have abiding power. In inaugurating the hmr years’ C(jurse there will be added to the faculty for the year l)eginning in Sej)teml)er a professor in biology, a specialist in boys’ work, and a teacher in medical gym- nastics who will also have charge of the physical instruction for the secretarial men. It will be necessary soon t(j add to the faculty another profes.sor for religious instruction, an additional instructor in English, in the secretarial course an instructor in lousiness administration, and in the physical course an instructor in chem- istry. In the near future there should also l)e de veloi:)ed a course f(jr railroad and industrial secretaries and a course for men from foreign countries. It is j)robable also that the work in religious education will be so specialized as to offer more comj lete courses for training religious work directors. J ' uf e fourteen

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