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Caption: Booklet - Kinley Speech Cirrculum and Consequences (1924)
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32 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF notion of why they should study it and of its relation to the other courses that they have taken or are taking. Therefore, they too often lose interest in the subject, or what is worse, lose faith in their instructors. The criticism that we are not producing even in vocational and professional lines men who have a grasp of their fields as a whole appears to have also some foundation. There i not tinou to discuss this criticism, but it may be the foundation of the call now faintly heard, but likely to become louder, for the r iteration of curricula in engineering and other fields "considered a a whole." Another unfortunate, but academic, result of the subdivision of the fields of the humanities and intense specialization in them, is that specialization sometimes has reached too far into the lower classes and, therefore, has not been based upon a general knowledge of the field. I submit with due reserve that crime, charitv, and abnormal psychology, for example, are not proper subjects for study in sophomore year. Still another evil result has been the isolation of the departments. The stalls of different departments have had little in common, and therefore ] ive 1 n of little assistance to one another in the way of inspiration and help in the conduct of their work.
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