COLLEGE COMMUNICATIONS

NOTICE OF FACULTY MEETING

The College Faculty will hold its Octo-
ber meeting on Tuesday, the 20th, at
4:30 pem. in Fraser Chapel. All members
are urged to be present to weloome the
new members of the staff.

INCREASING OUR TEACHING EFFICIENCY

How about the job of making ourselves
better teachers? Are we working at it,
or are we subconsciously assuming that
$4 doesn't need to be done?

Aside from the recognizedly important
and usually emphasized phases of our
work, in which presumably all of us are
watching ourselves and in which each of
us is striving for improvement, may we
mention two aspects of our work in which
jnoreased attention would result in
greater efficiency:

1. The mechanics of our work, This in-

cludes such things as definite plans for

each week's and for each day's work in
each class, careful attention to all such
details as those enumerated below, grad—
ing papers promptly instead of weeks
late, keeping each student thoroughly
aware of his progress or the lack of it,
careful observance of offioe hours in
order to afford greater personal contacts
with students, promptness and complete=
ness in all reports, eto.

2, Our class presentation, Perhaps each

of us should study more carefully his

class room actions and speech, Students
say that some professors need to take
work in the Speech Department in order

to be nble to present their work in a

clear and interesting fashion, instead

of "mumbling," Is your presentation
good? As good as you can make it?

DETAILS-~BUT IMPORTANT

1, Do you have a class card for every stu-
dent, including auditors, who is attending
your classes? Instructors are not privi-
leged to allow students to attend their
Glasses without class cards. :

2,.-If you have not already done sq, please
return your class cards now to. the office
of the dean of the school concerned.

3, No student should be considered with-
drawn from your classes until you have re=
ceived a withdrawal notice from the office.
These notices are inveriably sent out with-
in 24 hours of the time when the student
receives permission for withdrawal.

4. Except in known cases of illness, please
report promptly students who have been ab-—
sent from class more than one week, If re-
ported promptly we might be able to help
the student; if reported tardily the stu-

Ootober 17, 1942

dent simply has to be withdrawn from the
course with a failure, Rightly of wrong~
ly, parents expect us to know that their
young people are attending classes, and
when they are not we are expected to let
the parents. know about the matter.

5. Deficiency oards may be obtained from
the departmental office, We would like
to encourage their early and regular use
in reporting to this office all students
who are careless about class attendcans>
or who for reasons good or bad are sim p4y
not doing their work, The sooner we xneK
a student is failing, the better chance
we have of helping him.

MI D—SEMESTER REPORTS

Mid-semester reports are due in the office
not later than Thursday, November 12, Wil!
you please plan your quizzes so that your
reports will be in on time? We have ote
served that instructors who don't repox®
on time usually have not taken the troubi-
to plan their work far enough in advanos,

Wee oS Oe

"We are divided into two classes these
days: the ones who are bewailing the con-
dition of the world, and those who are
doing something about it."

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The enrollment in the College as of Octc-

ber 3 was 1869. This compares with an e1-
rollment of 1940 at the corresponding Cate
last year. This is a decrease of 3.°% in

the College. The deorease in the Univer=

sity as a whole is 6.%.

Sh aS Se

"When the crisis has passed, society
will still neéd the soldier for the en-
forcement of lew and the technician for
the advancement of material progress, But
above the need for each of them will be

the indispensable necessity for the leader-
ship of those whose training has been in
the humanistic studies, From this leader-
ship must come the vision, the perspective,
the moral concepts, the aesthetic sense,
the understanding of justice, the knowledg:
of social institutions and organization
that will render the victory significant
for the human race. If the necessity, for
the training for this leadership is lost
sight of, if in the efforts for defense,
that which is being defended is swallowed
up and the means to the end becomes the

end itself, then the toil, and perhaps the
ultimate sacrifice, of the soldier wil?

have been in vaines.ee"~-Professor Ruhi J,
Bartlett, in The Tuftonian,