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These Students Teach Themselves

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A COLLEGE class which lasts four hours at one sitting sounds like a heavy dose. Yet the students majoring in psychology at, Colgate University, 10 per cent of the upperclassmen, take their seminars in this half-day dosage every week of their last two years of college---and they do all of the teaching themselves, and like it! Under the direction of famed research man Dr. Donald A. Laird, the students prepare, lead and present their own discussions---but he does have to do a bit of refereeing when the arguments get too hot. COLLEGIATE DIGEST presents here in "picture and paragraph" some of the unusual features of these seminars.

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