ABSTRACT
In 1930, after a long experience with varied aspects of education at Harvard and a brief but disillusioning term of service as president of the University of Michigan, Clarence Cook Little published the awakening college. After his selection on an inadequate basis, the difficulties of the entering student, he said, were increased by the type of professional scholar selected to teach him. In recent years an increasing number of studies have attempted to assess the intellectual productivity of colleges, and in some of these the results of the changes at Swarthmore have been noted and published. Only a few institutions, like individuals, they find, have scholarly creativity. They believe that there must be individuals of high talents among the unproductive institutions, but so marked a degree of specialization in the production of younger scholars as we have found seems to approach a monopoly and to leave undeveloped and unproductive large segments of the American system of higher education.
