University High School - U Highlights Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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- 7 fE1?X'?g5gv' FWgrW '57'5W q 17v' THE MDlNlllCfDll3 C0lLlLEGE Q Q Q The four-year college program is designed to improve the quality of education at the upper secondary school level by providing a program of unified general education that bridges the sharp gap that has existed between the senior year of high school and the freshman year of college. This purpose is achieved by several means. First, the general courses in the major Fields of knowledge- the humanities, the social sciences, the natural sciences, and reading, writing and criticism-correspond roughly in scope and organization to the introductory general courses in the two-year curriculum of the college. By organizing these courses in a three year sequence students have the advantage of gaining both a more thorough and a more comprehensive mastery of each field of lcnowledge than is possible in a course in which a Field is covered in a single year. Second, the unified four-year program makes it possible to adapt the methods of instruction and the degree of freedom allowed to the progressive maturity of the students. The provision made for an increasing amount of independence from the eleventh to the thirteenth year does away with some of the serious problems of adjustment that college freshmen have heretofore encountered. Third, the introduction of comprehensive examinations earlier in the students' experience opens the way for closer cooperation between the instructors and students without the implication that students are endeavoring to cultivate instructors for the salce of getting better grades. The comprehensive examinations are also means of encouraging students to review and to master their courses as a whole. Moreover, those examinations in the earlier years provide experience in talcing examinations of the type students will encounter in their more advanced worlc. Fourth, studies of individual development indicate that grouping the grades included in the four-year college brings into one group students of similar physical and social maturity. This means, of course, that an appropriate program of extra class activities must be developed. The students in the four-year college with the aid of the social advisers and of the faculty sponsors of special interest groups have shown excellent ability in organizing activities suited to their interests and needs. Further experience will suggest a variety of ways in which these activities can be extended and improved. The four-year college is a new venture and like any new educational undertaking has its problems and limitations. We are convinced, however, that it marlcs a forward step in education and that the problems are not so difficult but that time and experience will lead to a satisfactory solution. ' A. J. BRUMBAUGI-l. Page I7 'vw'

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Rising in the midst of the campus, the University Chapel radiates its magnificence upon the whoie University. Page 16

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QDSEHIUGIHI CREED To deevlop in myself an appreciation of tlwe Finer tlwings of life, To acquire sell-control and sell-reliance, To co-operate vvitli otliers in student activities for tl'ie Welfare of tlwe sclwool, To be loyal to my sclwool and to give lwer my strongest support at all times, Shall be my purpose cluring my attendance at U-HIGH -, 4, .,,. , Page IB 'WW'