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Article: The Experimental College.(Review) (book reviews)
- Article from:
- Journal of Higher Education
- Article date:
- September 1, 1999
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New York: Harper and Brothers, 1932. xix + 421 pp. $3.50.
C. S. BOUCHER, University of Chicago
This book is the best example of the best of the new literature in the field of higher education that has come to the attention of the reviewer. A few years ago we were deluged with literature that was mainly destructively critical since it was concerned primarily with pointing out the malpractices and deficiencies in our educational process at the college level; at the time that type of literature was sorely needed. Then came a period when we were bombarded by armchair educational philosophers who presented theories galore, occasionally with concrete ...