EXPERIMENTAL COLLEGE

ALEXANDER MEIKLEJOHN, Ph.D., LL.D., Chairman, Brittingham Professor
of Philosophy

WALTER RAYMOND AGARD, B.Litt., Professor of Greek

JOHN MERRIMAN GAUS, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science

LAURANCE JAMES SAUNDERS, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History

SAMUEL GREEN ARNOLD Rocers, M.A., Associate Professor of French

CAMPBELL DICKSON, Ph.B., J.D., Assistant Professor of Physical Education

ROBERT JAMES HAVIGHURST, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Physics

DELOS SACKETT OTIS, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History

PAUL RAUSHENBUSH, B.A., Assistant Professor of Economics

MALCOLM PITMAN SHARP, M.A., LL.B., S.J.D., Assistant Professor of Law

CARL BOGHOLT, M.S., Instructor in Philosophy

FRANCIS STEEGMULLER, M.A., Instructor in English

JOHN BEncHER, B.A., Assistant in English

PAUL HERZOG, B.S., Assistant in History

DOUGLASS WINNETT ORR, B.A., Assistant in English

JOHN WALKER POWELL, B.A., Assistant in Philosophy

The purpose of the Experimental College, as established by the Fac-
ulty and Regents of the University, is to discover ways of improving in-
struction for freshmen and sophomores in the College of Letters and Science.
Male students, regularly admitted to the freshman class, may apply for
admission to the Experimental College. All the students in the college re-
side in Adams Hall and the enrollment is limited by the number of rooms
available in that building. The faculty offices are located in the same build-
ing.

The teaching policy of the college is taking form along the following
lines:

1. The aim is definitely liberal. The attempt is made to prepare the
mind of the student for dealing with the chief problems of individual and
social living.

2. All the teaching methods are made to rest upon the independent
work of the student. The college attempts not so much to teach him as to
help him to learn for himself. There are weekly assignments of books to be
read and papers to be written by the student. The work of the teacher
takes the form of tutorial guidance. There are regular conferences with
individual students, group conferences, and class meetings at which the
reading is discussed and explained by members of the staff and others.

8. In each of the two years of the course the college takes as the ob-
ject of its study a single civilization. There are no separate “courses” as
in the regular curriculum. In the freshman year the Athenian civilization
of the fifth and fourth centuries B. C. is studied and in the sophomore year
the American civilization of the nineteenth century is taken up.

4. Students in the Experimental College are allowed to take as extras
regular subjects in the College of Letters and Science. It is also under-
stood that in the sophomore year students shall be given opportunity to
take a course which may be needed as preparation for majoring in the later
years.

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