Westminster College - Blue Jay Yearbook (Fulton, MO)

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JOHN FLEMING COXVAN, D. D. The Faculty. Mmmlcrn Lfulguzuges Hebrew EDGAR HOGE BIARQUESS. L. H. D. Latin ,-5 ,f .N XYILLIS Immxlfs KIERR, A. M mlm My RICE' LL, D, Pllilosoplly, P1'i1'lCiI3!11 of Ilismry, English I4iY.C1'fl'Elll'C ACZICICIIIY

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The Faculty. ROSS ALBERT XVELLS, A. M Physics JOHN HARVEY SCOTT, PI-I. D. Mathematics and Astronomy l EVERETT ERNEST WENGER, Af B- DANIEL SI-IAXV GAGE, PH. D. Academy 'Assistant Greek

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5 The Advantages of the Small College. ' HE title ofthis article seems to contemplate a contrast between the larger and the smaller colleges, but one does not have A to survey the field very long to discover that there are no large colleges, and that which is really intended is a brief I contrast between the advantages offered to college students , by colleges pure and simple and those offered by colleges P, lil, W which are a part-generally a very small part-of a'Univer- X 1 il ' sity. Moreover, we note that where it is possible-and it is 7, 4 possible only with Universities located in cities having rapid ii' ' '11 transit-the University government separates its college by a number of miles from its departments of professional study, a fact that may be accepted as proof that this separation has decided advantages. In such institutions. and it may be added that the writer took his undergraduate course in two and a professional course in a third-the college student seldom, if ever, meets the students ofthe professional and technical schools. A second fact we may note is that in one, of these institutions, the huge catalogue of which givesthe names .of about three thousand students, the number of collegefstudents is only 156. A brief examination of the catalogues of the universities-real uni- versities-will convince the reader that the college is the department of least importance, receives the least part of the income from their vast endowments. hand really bears about the same relation to the university that the preparatory department of a college bears to the college, and is maintained for the same reason. The college, at least in the West where preparatory education is wholly in the hands of the state, must have a preparatory school because the great ma- jority of its students cannot find high schools that will prepare them to enter the Freshman class, hence it is not unusual to find a student who is a Sophmore in History and Literature, a Freshman in- Mathematics, a Sub-Freshman in Latin and a beginner in Greek or French or German. So at the Universities, it is not uncommon to find students in the professional schools whose qualifications for entrance, are so deficient that they are required to devote one or more hours to college work. This is the chief reason that the great universities maintain col- leges. It does not require a mathematician to infer that the 3000 students of the university above referred to, are not drawn from its own little college having an enrollment of 156. Universities in large cities having rapid transit are gradually separating their undergraduates from the students of the professional and technical schools, and it is generally admitted that it is done because association with the professional students exerts an unfavorable influence on the young college students. Were it A io