Show colleges now placing more emphasis yon boy aad less on subject by DR GEORGE B CUTTEN president colgate university OT for centuries has there been such an upheaval in education as m the last twenty five years we are more emphasis now upon the boy and less upon the subject boys work harder m college now than they ever did despite tho observations of alumni who feel that college is easier now than when they were students occasionally it is true a loafer geta into college but he usually atay long the principal object of the modern college is to make a mans edu cation worth something to him the educational program today is not only changed but is better we are trying to analyze things and see where we are for one thing we are analyzing the student we haye learned that to profit by his college work a student needs intellect and we have tried to measure the intellect of applicants for admission then we are trying to analyze the curriculum we have learned that discipline does not nece come from study that a man is not good merely because be had been working at something we have been applying business methods you might almost say to our courses estimating what their cost is to us and whether there is sufficient profit in an educational sense to justify them the third thing BC are trying to anal 70 Is the faculty this is the hardest of all because the analysis must be made by the faculty itself A surprising thing in this connection is that I 1 often find the older men keenest for the change and most willing to put themselves out almost to any extent to further the cause of better education it has often been said that the main interest in college among alumni is inspired by athletics athletics provide a rallying point for loyalty and enthusiasm which nothing else can do but a college has a eglit to expect from its alumni interest in intelligent criticism of and loyalty to its educational program |