Education: Harkness Heckled

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But, although entrance requirements have been stiffened, Yale's classes—and those of most other U. S. universities—have swelled into cumbersome hundreds. Class spirit has proportionally dwindled. It has become increasingly difficult for the faculty to pay individual attention to each student. Remembering fondly the social and educational intimacy of the small unit of students, many Yale pedagogs have been attracted to the British collegiate system. As at Harvard, it is supposed that at Yale an Americanization of the British resident college will be attempted. Probably united groups of undergraduates will live together in Gothic quadrangles, each group eating in its own refectory, lounging in its own living rooms. Good results to be hoped for: less time dissipated upon competitive extracurricular activities; resident faculty members at hand to prune and shape the growing intelligences of each inmate; House Spirit supplanting Class Spirit.