Identifier: selfsurveysbycol00alle (find matches)
Title: Self-surveys by colleges and universities
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Allen, William H. (WIlliam Harvey), 1874-1963
Subjects: Universities and colleges
Publisher: Yonkers-on-Hudson, N.Y., World book company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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for theconvenience of farmers; each school has the service offrom four to six teachers one week at a time. University of Chicago skives full college credit for workof college grade done in high schools if during thefirst two quarters at the university student maintainsan average standing of B or better; if he drops to lessthan B he gets one-half credit; if he falls below Cno college credit is allowed. University of Minnesota prohibits full-time members ofthe faculty from engaging in any outside activity which substantially interferes with their universityduties; two farms put in charge of two senior agrics, degrees being given upon successful conductof farm; cooperative housekeeping encouraged; alegal-aid bureau conducted by law students; practiceteaching is done in high schools; summer camp forcivil engineers; night classes in engineering and archi-tecture; school of public health was worked out by J mm m 1 1 1- ^_ ..;i>»^~ Serving those who pay the bills University of Minnesota
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Learning to test corn by testing corn Minnesota Short courses for farmers are good investments High-Spotting Other Colleges 117 engineering and medical faculties; home managementwas tested in a 15-room house, college credit beinggiven; established municipal reference bureau underauspices of State League of Municipalities; givescourses in sex hygiene for men; insists that therecan be no departmental or college proprietorship inthe buildings, and that space anywhere that is notabsolutely needed for college or departmental purposesshall be available for general university use; the uni-versity declares that the high-school course must beadapted to the needs of the great majority who cannotpursue higher education. College and university musttherefore adapt themselves to the high school as a peo-ples college. University of Nebraska has a central stenographic bureauas Ohio State University has central bureaus for eachcollege and has effected considerable saving by center-ing all business off

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