SENIORS ARE APPOINTED TO STUDY COLLEGE POLICY
What is believed to be one of the most unusual experiments in recent educational investigations is the appointment announced by President Ernest Martin Hopkins, of a committee of undergraduates to study and inquire into educational policies and tendencies of Colleges in general and of Dartmouth in particular with a view to reporting whether or not in undergraduate opinion changes in the present system are desirable and if so what these should be. The members of the committee will receive scholastic credit for their work of investigation.
The work of this committee is intended to supplement the work of Professor Leon B. Richardson, chairman of the faculty committee on Educational Policy, who has been requested by the Trustees of the College to study at first hand conditions and methods of educational policy in colleges and universities of America and England. Professor Richardson is on leave of absence engaged in the investigation.
President Hopkins stated"'that the investigation has been prompted by and is an attempt to utilize a great awakening of intellectual interest and enthusiasm in the undergraduate body which makes a new study of methods and purposes desirable to the end that this interest may be maintained and increased and that it may be developed to the maximum of advantage for society. President Hopkins further stated that he believed in the past too little attention had been paid to any opinions undergraduates might have had concerning the aims and methods of the colleges.
The undergraduates, all seniors, named on the committee appointed by the President are supposed to represent most branches of undergraduate thought and activity and were selected from the list of high ranking scholars. They are C. G. Aschenbach, East Orange, N. J.; W. H. Cowley, Brooklyn, N. Y.; W. S. DuBois, Englewood, N. J.; J. A. Fleming, Helena, Montana; W. A. Gardner, Montclair, N. J.; C. A. Knudson, Mamaroneck, N. Y.; N. F. Maclean, Missoula, Montana; R. W. Morin, Albert Lea, Minn.; R. M. Morgan, of Milwaukee, Wis.; J. M. Reid, Denver, Col.; A. N. Thurston, Rockport, Mass.; and M. H. Watkins, Cleveland, Ohio.
At the first meeting of the committee W. H. Cowley was elected chairman.
