SCHOLASTIC WISDOM

The value of acknowledging one's limitations is well illustrated by the program which Dr. Holt, President of Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, proposes to follow in governing his institution. Rollins, he admits, is a small college, not a university; and what is more, its future depends on its remaining small. There is a distinct difference between the organization and aims of a college and a university, a difference on which too little emphasis is being said, of the latter America has, says Dr. Holt, too many, of the former not enough.

Rollins possesses a wise president. He realizes that by refusing to promote the growth of the school he will be establishing its level. Let the large universities care for those who desire a cosmopolitan atmosphere or a specialized education. The others--those whose object is to get a liberal arts background sufficient to enable them to boast of a certain amount of culture, have an ideal haven in the small college, such as Dr. Holt proposes. Nor is it any shame to them that they do not care to go further than the outlines and the shell of education, the probabilities are that such a training will be the more beneficial to their chosen paths of life. A college whose enrollment is restricted to five hundred (or, if coeducational, seven hundred) offers a chance for a large measure of individual attention. The student who would feel entirely at sea in one of the larger universities is thus given what he would otherwise lack--occasion to express him-self more easily. When man has learned that there are limits of his capabilities--as Dr. Holt seems to have learned--he is on the way to a saner and more efficient existence.