University at Buffalo - Buffalonian Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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, -, x, vw w .i -fe ii -i gl' -,i 1'm'imizI'w.w il1 w lwll. fllfl,ii!'i,11'w-b .l W ll! all 1 fifiiiiiiii'll' w',N i viillvlillwuffiiilli4iilllislli..!ii.Mfr vilillll i li DR. CAPHN S1-Eaxrxo AT Dicnicxriox Hxuncisizs Sir Robert Alexander Falconer, K.C.hI.G'., M.A., L.L.D. president of the Uni- versity of Toronto extended the felicitations of the Canadian colleges and universi- tiesi These universities are also by their very nature homes of internationalismf' Sir Robert said. Patriotic centers, of course, none more so, sources of citizen- ship of the highest quality, but also rernembrances of the truth that science is oneg that law is universal and that humanity has right of way over mere nationalism. So I bring you from a university an international institution, the greetings of the young nation of Canada to you the greatest republic in the world. Livingston Farrand, lNI.D., L.L.D., president of Cornell and representative .of the American Association of Universities, brought the greeting of the universities. One of the advantages of the University of Buffalo, he said, 'cis its plasticity. I hope that it will always remain so in order that it easily can be shaped to serve the public. YVhat we need is a. broadly informed citizenship and a highly infornrerl leadership, not self perpetuated but open to the infusion of new blood. There is no where We can look for that leadership except to American colleges ,and universities. Frederick C. Ferry, M.A., Ph.D., president of Hamilton College and a close friend of Dr. Capen, made a happy speech in which he paid a generous tribute to Dr. Capen's attainments and qualities as a man. For the American colleges he said he brought to Dr. Capen God-speed and good wishes. ' The audience rose as Governor Miller was introduced and again as Dr. Capen got up to make his inaugural address. He spoke clearly and forcibly with the decisiveness which his colleagues have commented upon. Viewing American education in its cosmic aspects, Dr. Capensaid, certain dis- concerting facts immediately become evident. Nearly every type of institution, except the agricultural college, is over-crowded, congestion being most pronounced Fourteen af- fm . gi ii wvlni, 1 v ,its way mi,-.g.. i f 3 . . ,mi WN X - 'iv y,ilv1W l-iif':7.Tf iiiifWmprpfglfm,q,,M,m-.:' gf h'T i ' 't ' ' if-,f 1. ,V 1 vllr'llll+lll'l ix 'illillli Mlm illilillll lllw' illlllilltl 'ill ' i l ' N W' i i ...s my Wi, i. ii . . , - , , , 4.-,,i'i,..i-ii, .iilmif . ii:-we ., 1- p . gal I -1 i rv-ia.. .. ,.i. .W , iv.. i f .- .l Wi , , ..,......, ,, ,...A. ...,u.ii.,,., n.- ,. -, - , , 5 , i, , .

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in the colleges of arts and science. Arts colleges must be regenerated or they will die, the speaker deelaimed. and he made clear that in his 'view the United States faces the need of drastic, thorough-going reform in its whole scheme of education, to the end that our children and youth may be more 'cffectivelv trained and that time may be saved in the process. K The outstanding educational conditions that need to be corrected, and in which U. B. can lead the way because its is not fettcred by tradition, Dr. Capen saidl are: A. The period devoted to elementary education is too long. Ffticienev is offset by new subjects crowded into the curriculum and proof is wanting that the so- called cnrielunent of the elementary curriculum has increased pupils, intellectual power. B. Secondary education begins too late and ends too soon. failing to compre- hend the whole period of general forms trainings. lt is too diffuse and 'therefore superncial. providing very imperfectly for thc preparation of those who straight- way must earn a livelihood. C. Fifty ,per cent. of the work done in colleges of arts and sciences rightlv belongs in the secondary schools. so that it becomes necessary to provide teaching methods and disciplinary regime in college for immature boys and girls rather than for men and women seriously entering upon preparation of their life work. There is a prodigal waste of time in college. THREE OBVIOUS STICPS The three obvious steps to provide for the regeneration of education, Dr. Capen declared. are: A. Admission to college and continuance there should depend on a more thor- ough process of selection than any that now prevails. The creation of 'tests all the time is going forward. but the ultimate decision as to whether a student is qualified to remain can ustly he made. if the moral courage of the faculty can stand the strain. B. As early as possible in the college course there should be provision of opportunities for independent study, carried on in the spirit of research without meticulous oversight and with judgment only of the final results. None should be allowed to graduate who have not demonstrated their capacity for independent study and registered definite mastery of some Held of knowledge. C. The college should adopt all means possible to place secondary education where it properly belongs. and enter into eo-operation with the school systems from which the majority of its students came for establishment of methods of redistribu- tion that will prove of advantage to college and schools. The various kinds of professional training must be re-examined with fresh reference to the demands of the professions themselves. Dr. Capen continued. And the chaos that prevails in the relationships of the college to the professional schools must shortly be reduced to some kind of order. I am persuaded that both these ends could be furthered by a type of educational research that has rarely been applied to higher education. After the exercises the out of town delegates, members of the council and inaug- ural committee went to the University club for luncheon. Another luncheon in honor of Chancellor and Mrs. Capen was given by the Twentieth Century club, followed by a reception which was attended by the delegates. Fifteen . .l. , 1- 1 i, , . . i cl, l ui . ,. i .V Y fx , l, ,N .. W . ,. 1. i l ,,H,l.,! lm . I ,, l.. ww, 1 ., - l Y- -it MMM Q.. ,i Nr.. 1 Hi if -,wl.1,.,1.,r i, fr-,fs r ,y- lJ,i,g,. 1 , 1 , li 'll il 'Q . fliy, ' f . .' ' -'. . Y 1 ww, .lj WL limiiM-gr!!-ggmi.-l ti Ag.: