COLLEGE COMMUNICATIONS

NOTICE OF FACULTY MEETING

The June meeting of the College Faculty
will be held on Saturday, June 8, at
3:00 in the auditorium of Frank Strong
Hall.

INCOMPLETE AND FAILURE CARDS

Blue and red cards, to report Incompletes
and Failures respectively, may be obtain-
ed at the departmental offices. Please
send these to the College office just as
soon as possible after each final exam-=
ination. Failure cards should be sent in
for those students also who withdrew with
a failure earlier in the semester. Care-
ful attention to these cards will be
greatly appreciated. In no case should
any of these cards reach us later than
Saturday noon, June 8.

SUMMER ADDRESSES

Kindly write your summer address on the
enclosed sheet and return it to the of~
fice before leaving town. We do not plan
to disturb your summer vacation, but may
need your address in case of emergency.

FACULTY CHANGES

The steady changing of the College Fac-
ulty is illustrated by the shifts in the
chairmanships of four departments at the
end of this year.

We are sorry to lose Dr. and Mrs. Otto
Springes to the University of Pennsyl-
vania after four years at K.U. Our

best wishes accompany them to their new
work. We are glad to know that the
University will still have, however, the
teaching services of the other three
members of our staff who are retiring
from the work of the chairmanship. Pro-=
fessor W. S» Johnson will yield the ad-
ministrative work of the English Depart=
ment to Professor John W. Ashton of the
University of Iowa, but will continue
with his class work. Dr. H. P. Cady
will relinguish the chairmanship of the
Chemistry Department to Dr. Re. @ Brew=
ster, but will continue his teaching

and research. Dr. A. Te Walker will
retire from the chairmanship of the
Latin and Greek Department but will keep
on teaching in the department.

Taken individually and collectively
these men have done work of unusually
high and fine quality for which the
University will always be indebted to
them. May the best days of life and
work still be theirs?

June 3, 1940

CURRICULAR CHANGES

The June graduates from the College of Lib=
eral Arts and Sciences will have met two —
new requirements for graduation. First,
they will all have passed the proficiency
examination in English composition. That
this is a real test of ability to use the
mother tongue is attested by the fact that.
quite a few students have been unable to
pass the test and will not graduate tiii
later, Some have given up the idea of
graduating because of inability to pass

the test and a few have transferred to
other schools where no such test is re- ;
quired. Presumably, therefore, this year's
graduates have better training in English
composition than any class hitherto grad—
uated.

In the second place, all of this June's
graduates will have met the new distribu-
tion requirements which undoubtedly assure
a wider distribution of studies than has
been met by any previous graduating class.
No longer may a student, for example,
graduate with a minimum exposure of five
hours of work to the whole field of math-
ematics and the natural sciences. Nor may
he graduate with a minimum exposure of
five hours of work to the whole field of
the social sciences, including philosophy
and psychology. In each of these areas
the 1940 graduate has passed at least
twenty hours of work, as he has also in
the field of literature and language. We
believe this broad distributional require—
ment will be more generally appreciated in
the years to come.

HERE AND THERE

“anything that saps the sense of individual
responsibility will rot the American char=
acter, With rare exceptions your individ-=
ual future is in your own hands, and any-
one who tells you that you are the creature
of circumstances is doing you no favor, The
greatest curse that has come upon us is a
theory that we are all victims of something
or other. A long-faced economist tells you
that you are a victim of a system and that
you are doomed to failure and misery unless
the system is changed. His colleague tells
you that we must take all the risks out of
life and see that somebody else is going to
help care for you in old age or in any sort
of trouble; your security, he says, must be
a social and not a personal responsibility.
Another reminds you that the one thing that
you must keep in mind is that you are always
entitled to a subsidy for living,

"Profanity is stupid and offensive, but I
confess I feel a strong temptation to swear
when I read. the various long catalogues of
reasons why young men cannot succeed in
these times." - Pres. Dixon R.Fox,Union
College.