COLLEGE COMMUNICATIONS

MID-SEMESTERS AGAIN

Mid-semester grades are due in the office
on Monday, March 22. Please plan your
work and examinations to enable you to
make these reports promptly, Your help
in making full reports will also be
greatly appreciated, as the reasons

given for the poor grades are very
helpful to us in talking with students
and their parents.

MARCH PACULTY MEETING

The next meeting of the College Faculty
will be held at 4:30, March 16, in the
Central Administration auditorium.
Important matters are to be considered,
Since no faculty meetings were held in
January and February, we hope everyone
will attend the March meeting,

NEW COURSES AND CHANGES IN COURSES

According to a recent University Senate
regulation, no new courses may be offered
next fall which are not approved by the
Paculty by the April meeting. We are,
therefore, asking that all requests for
new courses and also for course changes
be presented now, This will allow us to
present the necessary requests at the
March faculty meeting and the Administra-
tive Committee could then present its
recommendations for action at the April
meeting,

May we ask all staff members to examine
critically the catalog descriptions of
their courses and suggest desirable
changes. Prerequisites should be care-
fully studied and requests for changes
made where necessary, so that catalog
statements can be regularly followed, It
is hoped that all changes may receive
Faculty or Administrative Committee
approval this spring instead of being
left for the fall when we are always
hurried to get the copy to the printer,

EXCESSIVE ABSENCES

We are finding some cases of neglect in
the reporting of excessive adsences, All
instructors of College students are

expected to check elass attendance regular-

ly and to report on the deficiency cards
any student who, aside from reasons of

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known illness, has one more absence from
class than the number of hours of credit
given in the course. Prompt reports
prevent some student failures and enable
us to give the parents the information
they expect of us in this matter.

WITHDRAWALS

Please remember that no student is with-
drawn from your classes until you receive
an official withdrawal notice from the
dean of the school concerned,

CODDLIFNG OR MASTERY?

“When failure is mentioned we become
sentimental and think too little about
the social waste that will ensue if we
pamper the individual in his irrespon=
sible practices--What would society have
lost if Pasteur, who failed, or if
Einstein, who failed, had been coddled
and passed?-~-When I reflect on the
history of civilization and on the
problems of present-day society, it
seems to me that there was never a time
when students should be held more rigor-
ously to high standards, never a time
when students needed more to be taught
that understanding can be acquired only
by mastering systematic knowledge--I make
a2 special plea for cducation that puts
lime in the bone, iron in the blood, and
organized knowledge in the minds of the
youth of this generation,”"-=—Pres, lL. D,
Coffman, in The Educational Record,

TEACHERS' OATHS

"I have been a teacher for most of my
active life and have known thousands of
the members of that profession---—No one
of them would probably object to taking

# loyalty oath, were it not for the
outrageous initial implication that they
are not loyal, and also were it not for
the power of insufferable interference
which the requirement of such an oath
gives to bigots and morons who may
conceive themselves alone possessed of
the true gospel, or who suffer from the
itch for newspaper publicity. Compel all
persons to take such an oath, if you will,
but do not insist on the teacher while
you spare the radio speaker, the newspaper
editor, the maker and purveyor of the
movie and the movie newsrecl,"-———Pres,
James Rowland Angell, to Yale Alumni,