COLLEGE COMMUNICATIONS

NOTICE OF FACULTY MEETING

The February meeting of the Faculty of
the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
will be held at 4:30 o'clock, February
18, in the auditorium of Frank Strong
Hall, Only a few matters of detail will
be presented, but it is hoped that we
can spend most of the meeting in discus—
sion of certain trends and of certain
problems which are of importance to us
as a college of liberal arts and sciences.
Every member of the Faculty is urged to
be present at this meeting,

CLASS CARDS

Familiarity does not so much breed con-

tempt as it does carelessness; and some

of us are quite careless with the famil-
jar class cards, Will you kindly do the
following with your class cards today:

1. See that you have one for every stu-
dent attending the class, If not, in-

form the student concerned that he must
go to the dean's office at once and see
that this class card is produced.

2. See that the students' names are
correctly spelled on the class cards,

3. See that the student has the proper
prerequisites for the course both as to
courses and class standing,

4, See that no student is duplicating
the course,

5, Return to this office today class
cards for students who are not appearing
in the course. (Other class cards are
not due in the office until March 10,)

Thank you}
ABSENCES

We pursue a conservative policy in regard
to absences, On the one hand, we do not
ignore them entirely, and on the other
hand we do not report and hold a student
accountable for every absence, Instruc-
tors of College classes should, however,
record all absences, and whenever a stu-
dent, except in cases of known illness,
has accumulated more absences than the
number of hours for which the course gives
credit, he should be reported for exces—
sive absences on the excessive absence
card, which may be obtained at the depart-
mental offices, This office then inter-
views these students, and most of them
cooperate by eliminating further absences.
Only in rare cases and then only when
further excessive absences are reported
does this office apply the faculty rege
ulation regarding absences and withdraw
the student from the course with a
failure.

February 17, 1941

Some Faculty members feel that keeping
class attendance and reporting excessive
absences is high school stuff, It may be.
But whether we like it or not, parents
expect us to know whether or not their
youngsters are attending classes regular-
ly, and they expect us to tell them if
they are cutting classes,

WHY ATTEND CLASS REGULARLY?

Some instructors assert that they do not
care whether their students come to class
or not, just so they can pass the final
examination, Such instructors are assum=
ing that the final examination is a com=
pletely adequate test of the work of the
whole semester, We wonder how many final
examinations measure up to this standard?
Moreover, if students can do as well in

a course by private study as they can
through regular class attendance, why

not present our courses by correspondence?
We propose to continue to believe that
personal contact between student and
teacher is the single most important.
thing a student may obtain at this Uni-
versity and that there is no substitute
for this, aa

WITHDRAWALS

No student should: be considered withdrawn
from a course until the instructor has
received a withdrawal card from the dean's
office, These cards are invariably sent
out within 24 hours of the time the stu~
dent has withdrawn, When withdrawals,
therefore, have not been received and the
student is not appearing in class, please
report such cases very promptly, Coopera=
tion here will not only keep the records
straight, but may save students from re-
ceiving the failure which must be given
them, according to the rules, if they
drop courses without consent,

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MODERN ART

One day a lower of art was visiting an
art gallery, He approached a very
strange looking daubed canvas and asked
the attendant what it represented,

"That, my friend, is a jersey cow eating
grass," explained the attendant,

"But where is the grass?" asked the puz—
zled visitor,

"Oh, the cow has eaten the grass."

"But where is the cow?"

"My dear sir, you would not expect a cow

to stay around after she had eaten the
grass, would you?" replied the attendant.