Collection

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Collection, Wednesday, April 26, 1933
I have had the suggestion made to me by several
students of the College that , in view of -the e:i!lea!l!lilill'l,
the rather widespread discussion of this year of our educa­~
tional methods, that I should undertake to~state to the
student body. or PIili8Ubo the educational ideals of this
College . It would be an interesting and an easy thing to
do in the course of a lecture of an hour ' s length, or in
several such lectures , but it is a difficult, and perhaps
impossible thing to do in the short period of Collection .
Nevertheless I believe in doing the imposs ible, and so I
shall try to do it . I propose to say something t his morning
by way of introduction, and in the next Collection and the
one following I shall say something about the theory under­lying
our organization here, and at the last Collection--at
Commencement time--I am ~oing to say how I think these methods
fit into the traditions of this College and hol'l they fit into
the principles of the SOCiety of Friends. I want to say some­thing
of the activities of the College--in this College and
in other colleges in the country at large .
I came here i'11Illediately after the war in 1921 when
colleges allover the country were having enormous increases
in their enrollments . The enrollment in colleges and universities
doubled in a few years after the war . That increase ~ u.. ~
enOyma,.." 98Ji1HHltPIVeog erd Qopet1tutes a serious menace to
our educationru standards , but our faculty and administrative
officers saw the danger and took measures to meet it here- -