Should Students Study?

Should Students Study?  (1917)  by William Trufant Foster

Should Students Study? is a book written by a university professor about United States university life around 1917 and his opinions about how education should be organized. A text with the name Should Students Study?, written by Foster, first appeared in Harper's Magazine Volume CXXXIII (September 1916) on page 615. The version here is the standalone book version published in 1917.

Should Students Study? by William Trufant Foster, LL.D. President of Reed College

Harper & Brothers Publishers New York and London

Copyright, 1917, by Harper & Brothers Printed in the United States of America

Part I

• Chapter I. College Life
• Chapter II. Differences — East and West
• Chapter III. College Life and College Studies
• Chapter IV. Promise and Performance
• Chapter V. Success in Studies and in Life
• Chapter VI. Genius as a Substitute for Study
• Chapter VII. Thinking by Proxy

Part II

• Chapter VIII. Should Specialists Specialize?
• Chapter IX. Ultimately Practical Studies

External links

• Should Students Study? - the 1916 edition hosted by Harper's Magazine

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1950, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 60 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.