Including A college fetich, 1883; Shall Cromwell have a statue? 1902; Some modern college tendencies, 1906. In these addresses Mr. Adams arraigns many of the weaknesses of the present-day college régime. The license of electives leads to the “way of least resistance:” college athletics are but the “overgrowth of the superficiality which rules the curricula,” etc. He offers helpful reform suggestions on the limitation of the number of subjects pursued, on the moral training of the student, and on the breaking down of our large colleges into smaller units.
“While they can hardly be said to make a book of history at the present time, they will certainly be regarded by the future historian of education in the nineteenth century as an important part of his source-material.”
| + | Am. Hist. R. 13: 192. O. ’07. 170w. | |
| Dial. 42: 319. My. 16, ’07. 100w. |
Reviewed by Wm. E. Dodd.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 362. Je. 8, ’07. 1060w. |
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
| + | Putnam’s. 3: 229. N. ’07. 470w. |
Adams, Henry. Cassell’s engineers’ handbook; comprising facts and formulae, principles and practice in all branches of engineering. $2.50. McKay.
“Not a mere formula book nor an ordinary student’s text-book, but rather an aide memoire for those who have passed through their elementary training, and are now in practice.”