The Wellesley Magazine, Vol. 6 October, 1897 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Wellesley Magazine, Vol. 6: October, 1897 Another department of collegiate instruction which has been not only developed, but in many instances introduced within a short time, is that of Bible Study. Chicago University, with its strong interest in this line of work and its long list of courses under eminent instructors, has doubtless had an influence In awakening this interest. Probably, too, the realization that ignorance of the English Bible was increasing and threatening the very foundations of sound learning, is largely responsible for the introduction or development of this department of instruction. Last, but by no means least in the tendencies of college education, may be noted specialization and graduate study. It is said of a college president of a generation ago, that a half-hour's warning was sufficient to prepare him to take the place of any member of his faculty in the class room; an ideal which is necessarily becoming one of the past. The advance in scholarship has been great; in place of a little learning spread very thin over a broad surface, the specialist gives thorough and often exhaustive treatment of some one subject, his own contribution to knowledge. If there is an element of danger in this tendency, it lies in the temptation to overdo it. The president of a New England school, in a recent address, spoke of over-specialization as resulting in caricature, the aim of education being the well-proportioned, evenly balanced personality which would not do away with the specialist, but only with the over-specialist, who can see nothing but his specialty, and who would make that the standard for deciding the destinies of all men, both here and hereafter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.