The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 11, 1922, Page 3

” THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1922 ALONZO GRACE RESIGNS FROM — “Y” FACULTY Says that System of Instruction At University of Minnesota Kills Spirit HIS CLASSES Claims that the Univertiy Way@ Causes Students to Forget Real Purpose | i | Charging that clas: ta versity of Minne order of the authorities are undemo-|{ cratic, inefficient in true educational | Tesults and discouraging to independ-| ent thinking, Alonzo A. Grace, instrue-; tor in anthropology, has tendered his resignation from the faculty, i Professor and Mrs, R word has been rec plang cf Prof, Grace. The neer Press, quotingg the : red to his classes that the} 3 tem at the University forces students to forget the real sub-| ject matter of their courses in a race for “honor points” which are gained by parrot-like repetition cf a protes- sor’s ideas. { The institution out a follow- ! is turning Wetcuctor Here Two Years. Feeling that conditions at the Uni- sity prevent him from fulfilling his duties to his students with the fair- ness and efficiency demanded by his conscience, he has determined to leave the institution, Grace stated, (Prof. A. E. Jenks, head of the de- partment’ fy',which Grace is an in- structor, refused to comment on the latter’s criticisms, President L. D. Coffman of the’ University also had no statement to make. He said that beyond. having received Grace’s resig- nation, he knew nothing of the mat ter, Grace, who lives at 1711 Marshal), avefue, has’ ‘been a member of the _ faculty for two years, during which time he, has instructed more than 1,609 students in beginning anthropo} ogy and general immigration. His methods of teaching, although they have brought him criticism from older members.of the faculty, he said have made his classes popular with jto learn. the ide: the students. In a class of 210 there were only fifteen unexcused absences in a quarter term, he stated. 4 Honor System Attacked. “Thera are several unfortunate con- ditions in institutions of, higher learn- ing stemming the very tide of democ- racy,” ‘Grace declared. ‘I am neither a disorganizer nor a radical when 1 says that such confitions most surely exist in the University of Minnesota. “Wirst and primarily is the so-called honor point-credit systém, iby which ja student is required to obtain, an} equal. number of honor points and credits in order to get a university -de- gree, In oth pass every subject during his Your POPULAR years in the university, yet he cannot graduate unless he has secured a like number of honor points. ms “The result is that a'student has no ‘interest in ‘his subject other than to | get edits and honor points, The ex- pr ion of his own convictions, his own original ideas, or oppositon to the as conducted by | quently mean a lower grade and re| rded graduation, Thought Is Stemmed. “An inopportune statement contrary to the belief of the instructor or con- to the. detail as, presented in will mean a lower grade. Free- is so stemmed by th tudent has merel) s of his instructor verbatim if he wishes to pursue the safest channel leading to an honor point, “We are developing a great body of followers, not leaders, by this system. “If the time has come when the student has to think in terms of honoy points and credits rather than the subject matter. of his course, then surely: a university training is a farce and a failure.” 3 Taking to task another phase of the university “machine,” Grace declared that instructors» are continually ad- monished -that their marks are too high, and that.they must conform to a given scale, . “In other words,” he- said, “a cer tain percentage of A’s must tbe given, and a certain percentage of ‘B’s and C’s. If there are too many A’s then the instructor reduces the lowest A to a (IB, and thus the system fune- tions, system thag, the Killing College Spirit. “Instructors are deterred-from giv- ing earned gra@des because any de- partment that gives a larger percent- age of A’s or B's, than the customa quota ‘is labeled a ‘soft’ departmen | giving so-called ‘pipe’ courses.” | «This represénts the first factor un- dermining university life. By it we kill college spirit. Vg not only elim, inates some of the vest athletes, but hampers the progress of the entire university body.” Grace describes as “miserable” the relationship between student and in- structor at the unive f He declares that a single instructor _ BRESLOW’S © Make Remarkable Offer To Any Person In Bismatck Who Is Weak, Sick, Nervous . Or Run-Down. 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Summing up his own ideals of the | dutigs of an instructor, Grace said his jaim while tcaching ‘nas been “to pro- mote fair play, optimism, Humanitari- anism and Americanism.” Grace's. resignation will not be act- ed on until a meeting of the Board of Regents is held. It ig expected he will continue with his classes until the close of the present school term. | MANY EVENTS SCHEDULED | Devils Lake, N. D., May 11.—An at the Uni-/idea as set forth by the instroctor fre-|U- usual number of events are sched- uled for the coming chautanqua_sea- son here, covering 39 days. ‘They follow: : June 8, 9 and 10, national conven- tion of ihe Hollinglag: | Juno to 25, e State National guard. Week of June 18, mecting of the American Legion. | June 18 to July 9, 22. days, » the Chautauqua, session. July 10 ta 16, Epworth league can- vention. ~July 11 to. 14, Ramsey county fair. 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