| Show IL i 5 1 Q 4 51 iI C I d ds s p DEAN L B 11 K R BRIGGS OP OF HARVARD FACULTY Debts Dean L 14 f 11 H It 11 Briggs ot of tho the faculty of ot Harvard H university lust evening to to un nn appreciative audience In Library auditorium on Amer Mner American lean ican Colleges and Universities In his speech Dean Briggs Brigga expressed d tho the opinion that It was not altogether pleasing to note the th constant tendency of at change chungo from Crom the thu old university In III Inmost most of ot the tho old colleges all ot of tIc tho stu sta students dents denis took about the same annie and ho he asserted that L there them ate are certain Im lint Important results that aro are likely to be b under r the present system or ot specialization The Thu speaker pointed out that tIne tho ob object ot or a it college bo be for tor tile thu gen general eral eril cr development of ot tho the average col cot collego lego hege malt mail ratIon rather than for tho tim develop development ment of research specialists Men who are uro not especially l qualified for tIre the original inal advance walk voik should not Snot take toke It up rm non they are aro not noL an ta well qualified quail Oed for Cor teaching of cir lower lowel subjects after aftel aft they the havo have spent three years in research work they cannot Immediately adapt Delapl themselves to the method of ot study lice for fOl tIre tho undergraduate At Harvard he wild said that they were wens realizing more fully tully than over ever the Im In Importance of ot a ii graduate graduato standing before borore entering the professional schools schoola but that there aro are dangers of at Innumerable professional and amid technical schools growing up around a college that they should not overshadow It It Ho pointed to tire tho fact that all of ot the special schools take tako enormous funds owing to tire the special equipment and auh tho the nieces necessity sHy ally of an tin eminently qualified faculty III In conclusion hu lie said tahl tho the danger to college is III more widespread because of oC tho tIm diversity of tho lutes linos of ot specialization tion mud and because of oC the thc popular demand fot for the tho extremely practical After tho iho lecture nil all of ot tho the nicest men met mot at itt the tho University club where they the gathered around the tho banquet board to toast their respected dean deani and talk talle over plans for the organization of ot an titi alumni organization for Utah Ulah and Idaho Waho The following was selected to perfect tho the local organization tion George M Eaton J A Howell HowellL L I 1 S 13 McCornick F P W IV V Reynolds ne and George Georgo Thomas |
