Show I COED C ED INFLUENCE AffECTS GR GRADES DES SAYS DR THOMAS One-fourth One College Students Cheat President Reveals in Speech to Faculty Present College on Higher Standing Than College of Years Ago Approximately one-fourth one of the college r-ollege students of today are partly partly partly part part- ly ch cheating their w way y through college college college col col- col- col lege by cheating in examinations according to evidence brought forward forward forward for for- ward at the University of Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota Minne Minne- sota where tests h have ve been made recently President Thomas revealed reveal reveal- ed to the faculty of the University at the faculty meeting held Wednesday Wed Wednesday Wednesday Wed Wed- in the faculty culty room of the John R R. Park building President Thomas was in attendance attendance attendance attend attend- ance at the conference of college presidents and administrators held I at Minneapolis this summer where the results and progress in educational educational educational experiment being carried on throughout the country were pre pre- Reporting to the faculty concerning concerning concerning concern concern- ing this conference President Thomas said in part When we stop to think about it it is a r rather ther interesting fact fac that while the universities universities universities uni uni- have been training men in inthe inthe inthe the several fields of human thought to go out and analyze and solve as asfar asfar fa far as possible the many problems which h concern the public and a number of these men have rendered notable service to the nation in a aY Y variety Ii y of r ways the e universities n v r have been very slow slow to investigate the problems problems' which confront university university university uni uni- education We Ve have been governed a a great deal by the past and have nave continued in methods of teaching which have been discarded discard discard- ed in the grades and preparatory schools The tide has now turned and institutions of higher learning are beginning beginning- to investigate their own procedure and apply efficiency methods not only to to the subjects taught but to to- the methods of teaching until today they are becoming becoming becoming be be- coming the severest critics of their own procedure Th The increase in the number of junior colleges and the widespread junior college movement was taken up up In this connection it was wag pointed point point- I ed d out that most of the work work- done 4 in college years year ago is now being being being be be- ing done in the high school and that the junior and senior colleges i were occupying a new place with the great increase in the numbers of or those entering and the greater great r influence of college on the average citizen Also the increased entrance requirements for college were pointed point point- ed out The change in American colleges student ability and its measurement measure measurement measure measure- ment college curriculum classification tion of students orientation examinations examinations examinations exam exam- size of classes liberal arts colleges and student organizations were other topics touched upon by President Thomas in his speech Concerning cheating President Thomas said Experiments were carried on both under the honor system and under supervision Time Tim will not permit a consideration of the methods employed further than to say that th the papers were exam- exam Continued on Page 2 2 |