Improving Alumni Relations
| Autor: | J. L. Morrill |
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| Rok vydání: | 1938 |
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| Zdroj: | The Journal of Higher Education. 9:235-242 |
| ISSN: | 1538-4640 0022-1546 |
| Popis: | T HE current academic year has produced a considerable new crop of college presidents. These have appeared not only on the Atlantic fly-way but also on the Great Lakes and other fly-ways, as the United States Biological Survey would say in reporting its annual census of ducks and other migratory wild fowl. There have been at least four in Ohio alone, with others hatching in the nesting grounds. All this promises excellent shooting a little later for dissatisfied members of the various college constituencies. The attitude of college presidents toward alumni, like the feeding habits of wild geese, is important to observe, for this attitude may be institutionally symptomatic. It indicates in some cases whether alumni interest and influence will be pruned back sharply, merely tolerated, or encouraged to thrive and flourish. At Dartmouth, for example, one type of ecology, measured by this index, seems to prevail; at Chicago, perhaps another. "All alumni are dangerous," President Hutchins told an audience at an Oberlin commencement; and in his book, The Higher Learning in America, he declared the alumni " are interested in all the things that do not matter."' But those of you who heard President Hopkins at the Amherst convention will remember a more thoughtful and heartening point of view. President Hopkins said |
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