University of San Francisco - USF Don Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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SENIOR LAW Brotherton, R. E. Fitzgerald, J. J. Davey, L. Van dor Zee, H. Doyle, J. Dibcrt. H. Nolan. H. W. O’Donnell. E. McCullough. C. J. Schmidt. H. C. Stockfleth, G. A. Gracia, M. E. Copestakc, J. L. Presho. W. Ainsworth. F. H. Conklin, M. Ohland, C.

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16 TIIE IGN ATI AN college; to sharpen them to a point by specialized courses should be the object of the large university. But the universities, ever seeking greater numbers of students, included all courses in their curricula so that they now accommodate those of both under-graduate and post-graduate standing. Recently, however, many educators have come to realize, as all eventually must, that the large university cannot do the work of the small college, any more than the small college could do the work of the large university. These educators have, as a result, turned to the small colleges in America, and they found that this country has a multitude of highly efficient small colleges which have been constant and persevering in the work of educating the youth of the nation. Consequently, nearly every large university in the country has fixed a limit to the number of students and has raised the requirements of its studies. The happy day when the large university, free from the great task of educating under-graduates, can more competently attend to its true work, that of training post-graduates, is drawing nearer and nearer. And at that same happy time the small college will come into its own; it will be recognized as the fountain-head of liberal education. So it is that we put great faith in the words of Doctor William R. Harper, who, when he himself was president of the large University of Chicago said: “The small college is certain of its existence in the future educational history of the United States. The future of the small college will be a great future, a future greater than its past.” Here the question naturally arises: Is the small college efficient in its work of educating; can it carry on the great work that lies before it? To answer this, let a little comparison be drawn between the large university and the small college of today. Perhaps the greatest asset of the small college is the personal contact of students with professor. For here, the student is daily in close touch with his teachers; the limited size of the classes permits of a great amount of individual in-

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JUNIOR LAW. McDermitt, J. L. Kelly. R. Coffey. E. H. Perry, F. J. Pieruccinl. E. W. Fitzpatrick. E. I. Varni, E. J. Holcenbui'K. S. J. Childress. H H. Halpin. T. J . Delaney, E. Castel. L. Scott. E. Elliott, J. F.