THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATAAG. 1 S UniversityWillAdopt Oxfords Tutorial System In Fall 0 f 1939 1*) s4-ear Trial Period Will Be Given Plan 'Kwelve Faculty Tutors To Organize Studies For Honor Students Chosen The University slated itself for an undoubted position on the forefront of American higher learning last sping with its plans to inaugurate, in the fall of 1939, an experimental tutorial system modeled on the Ox- ford plan and similar to systems ex- tapt at both Harvard University and Swarthmore College. The first state-supported institu- ttoito accept the plan, Michigan will give it a trial period of five years with no more than 100 students enrolled tider it at any one time. Thirty stu- dents from this fall's freshmen's class will, be selected at the outset of their junior year to start the experiment. Accents Individual Attention The new system refuses to push all students through the same hopper apd places heavy accent on individual gLtention, with an eye to a more through-going synthesis of knowl- edge. Subject matter, it is intended, will be fashioned to the intellectual figure of the student. Students desiring entrance into the tutorial plan must fulfill a list of special requirements including a "B" average, personal interview with the Board of Tutors, qualifying examina- tions in English composition and one foreign language acceptable to the Board. About 12 tutors will be selected from the faculty to organize and sup- ervlse the entire program of the hon- ors student. Only half of the work will be in regularly scheduled courses, but an extensive supplementary pro- gram of assigned readings and re- search will be administered by the tutor. Hold Weekly Conferences During the-last two years the stu- dent will concentrate his interests around a central academic theme and extend his knowledge in collateral fields. Weekly 'conferences pertain- ing to the extra-class study will be held with the tutor and the latter will report this work as a regular course with a number, filling in a grade for the final accomplishment. During his senior year each stu- dent will be expected to write a ' penetrating" essay uponany subject seleted by him after consultation with his tutor. The merit of the es- say will be appraised by members of the Board of Tutors and faculty mem- bers who are specialists in the sub- ject. I To Use 'Comprehensives' The present "package" system of examinations will be replaced by "comprehensives," administered at the end of the senior year in the field of concentration and allied sub- jects. Students who have demon- ttrated superior ability in these tests will be recommended for honors at graduation. Members of the faculty chosen for duty at tutors will be relieved of at least one third of their present teach- in g duties. The Board of Tutos will be. appointed by the Dean and the Executive Committee of the literary coliegeb 5,400 Enrolled This Summer Institutes Were Highlights Of 45th Session A record-breaking enrollment of more than 5,400 featured the 45th annual University Summer Session, surpassing last year's total by more than 300. Academic highjights of the Ses- sion were the Institutes of Far East- ern Studies, Physics, Linguistics and the Renaissance, in which faculty men from other schools played im- portant parts. The Graduate Con- ference on Renaissance Studies in- troduced this summer made the Uni- versity the first institution in the United States to offer a special cur- riculum on this subject. The Repertory Players celebrated their 10th anniversary as part of the summer University by presenting an eight-play season featuri ag Thomas Dekker's Elizabethan comedy, "The Shoemaker's Holiday" with Whitford Kgane and Hiram Sherman from the New York cast.' The closing produc- tion, Rudolph Friml's light opera,l "The Vagabond King," was presented in conjunction with the School of. Music. More than 65 prominent faculty men assisted in the Session, taking part in the work of nearly every de- partment of the University. Prof. I. A. Kramers of the University of Leyden, renowned Dutch physicist, Daily Editor Union President Interfraternity President Four Officers Head Assembly I1(lepenldent Women Ilave League Undergraduate Council. Each board meets independently to settle its own problems and once each month the three groups hold a joint meeting. Each year the Assembly has its own traditional social functions. The As- Own Organization sembly Banquet held during the first -- semester is for all independent wo-, (Continuied from Page s) men on the campus; at this affair, each dormitory has is based on the the representatives of the sophomore, junior, and senior classes having the total number of girls living in it, highest scholastic averages for the All the league houses in the city are previous year are honored with divided into geographical zones of 40 awards. The dormitory and League women each. The League House House with the best academic records are also honored.rdimaeuoftepsdns Last year all of Bcrd is ade up of the presidents he scholarships were awarded to 13 these League Hou.es. The Ann members of the Ann Arbor Indepen- Arbor Independents, which is a fairly ent group. Jean McConkey, '38, re- new organization on the campus, con- ceived the award for the best scholar- 3ists of all women who do not live ship during the junior year; Bernice in dormitories or league houses or Cohan, '39, had the highest record who are not affiliated with sorori- of the independents for the sopho- ties. It likewise has an executive i more year's work, and Frances Orr, board of its own. Each of these three '40, was judged highest in the fresh- boards has a council similar to the man class of the previous year. Mar- r i tha Cook Building and the Zuck League House received the group honors. The outstanding event of the sec- ond semester for the independents is the annual Assembly Hall. Breakfast is served following this formal dance at the League and at various other eating places on the campus. The party is primarily for independent women and their guests and a large dance band is featured. During the past year the Assembly has cooperated with Congress, the men's independent organization, to sponsor several afternoon tea dances and Sunday night suppers. Tradition Guarded An old tradition established at Michigan is that women cannot enter the front door of the Union. George, the doorma.1, is always on hand there to see that the tradition is not 44~ 4 ROBERT REIDl ming parties and picnics to the va- rious lakes and parks in the en- virons of Ann Arbor are popular. ROBERT D. MITCHELL broken. Congress President PAUL BRICKLEY Religious Programs Are Important Here Student groups of every possible re- igious denomination carry on exten- 3ive activities throughout the school year, with programs held weekly or even more often, open to all freshman students. Almost all of these groups have planned informal get-together pro- grams for the first weeks of school, which offer the new student an in- valuable opportunity for getting ac- quainted. Sunday night are the most popular meeting times of these groups, and usually informal suppers are held first, with faculty lectures or student discussion panels following on topics of general interest to all students. Friday and Saturday night parties, picnics and hikes are among theI other activities sponsored by these groups. During the summer months swim- ., ONE UNUSUAL DEGREE DFFERS YOU . . .. D. of S. (Doctor of Style) A FASHION COURSE BY WILD & COMPANY ,.. ,..-^w,,,,.,, .. / _ tt -w, // ,.'1 ROBERT HARTWELL Wilfred Shaw Relates History Of, University Since Its Founding 1937 Marked Centennial Of Founding Of School In CityOf Ann Arbor By WILFRED SHAW 1787--The Northwest Territory organized under the Ordinance of 1787, with the provision that "Reli- gion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education should forever be encouraged." 1805-Territory of Michigan or- ganized. 1817-The Catholepistemiad of Michigan established in Detroit. 1818-Lancastrian School opened in the University Building on Bates and Congress streets, Detroit. 1821-The University of Detroit established, to succeed the Cathole- pistemiad, with a board of 21 trus- tees. 1827-The University of Detroit, which was little more than an ele- mentary school, disappeared. 1831-M. Victor Cousin's "Report on the State of Public Instruction in Prussia," which involved the first statement of a system of public in- struction, appeared in Paris. 1835-A translation of Cousin's report read by John D. Pierce of Marshall, Michigan. Mr. Pierce and General Isaac Edwin Crary, as mem- bers of the Constitutional Conven- tion, draw up the educational section of the Constiution of 1835. in which provision is made for a university. 1837-January 26-Michigan ad- mitted to the Union. March 18-An Organic Act under the Constitution prpovided "that there shall be estab- lished in this State an institution under the name and style "The Uni- versity of Michigan'." June 5-First meeting of the Board of Regents in Ann Arbor. The site of the present, campus selected. The Rev. Henry Colclazer appointed Librarian, the first University officer chosen. June 21-Eight branches of the Univer- sity authorized, five of which were eventually established. July 17-Dr. Asa Gray elected Professor of Botany and Zoology, the first appointment to the Faculty. He never served, how- ever, though he bought a collection of 3,700 volumes in Europe for the li- brary at a cost of $5,000. 1838-Regents borrowed $100,000 from the State to build the necessary buildings and establish the branches. 1839-Governor Mason vetoes bill the new Rackham School of Gradu- ate Studies, dedicated June 17. The structure, built at a cost of $2,000,000, was the gift of the estate of the late Horace H. Rackham. Trips to Niagara Falls and Put-In-. Bay featured the schedule of 10 ex- designed to lessen University's rev- enue from the sale of State lands. 1841-July-George Palmer Wil- liams appointed to the chair of Math- ematics and Natural Philosophy, the first professor to serve in the Uni- versity. Salary $500 and his house. The first University building, now the north wing of old University Hall, in- cluding dormitories, classrooms, and chapel, completed, as well as four adjacent houses for the Faculty. (The President's house is the only one of these four residences that survives.) August-The Rev. Joseph Whiting appointed Professor of Languages. September-The University opened its doors to a class of six students. 1842-Abram S a g e r appointed Professor of Botany and Zoology. 1843-T h e University building named "Mason Hall" in honor of the boy governor of Michigan, Stevens T. Mason, who had just died. Appropri- ations for the branches of the Uni- versity discontinued. 1844-Andrew Ten Brook, after- ward Historian of University and Li- brarian, appointed Professor of Phi- losophy. Legislature permitted Re- gents toapply depreciated treasury notes and State scrip received for sale of University lands, in payment of debt to State. 1845-August 6-First c l a s s of nine students graduated. On same day Society of the Alumni formed. 1846-Silas H. Douglas appointed Professor of Chemistry. Lous Fas- quelle appointed Professor of Mod- ern Languages. Contest with Greek letter fraternities over existence of Chi Psi Lodge, a log building east of the Campus, the first fraternity house in America. 1847--Eighty-nine students en- rolled. 1849-Members of the Greek let- ter fraternities forced to resign. Med- ical School organized. First Medical building completed. South wing of old University Hall built. 1850 - October - Fraternities re- instated. Medical Department opened with 90 students. 1851 - April 8 - Regents made constituent part of State government under Organic Act of new Constitu- tion. 1852-December 22-Henry Philip Tappan inaugurated as the first pres- ident of the University. 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