COLLEGE COMMUNICATIONS

NOTICE OF FACULTY MEETING

The College Faculty will meet on Tuesday,
May 18, at 4:30 in Central Administration
Auditorium, Important matters such as

the proposals for group majors and general

and departmental honors work are to be
considered. Will members please bring
their copies of the report on the honors
pian to the meeting.

RED AND BLUE CARDS

These cards for early reports on failures
and incompletes may be obtained from the
departmental offices. 2

Please send in red cards for all students
who have withdrawn with failure during
the semester and for those who fail at
the end of the semester, Since we must
copy these failures on the transcripts
before the Summer Session starts, they
should be sent in as soon as possible,
but in all cases not later than Saturday,
June 5.

HONOR ROLLS

We are asking the faculty to nominate
students for the Honor Roll of this
year's Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior
classes. This roll usually lists from
five to ten per cent of the membership
of each class, and has, we believe,
proved an incentive to good scholarship
to many students. Nominations should
be made for students who were in your
classes last fall or this spring.
Please use a separate card for each
student recommended. Cards for your
nominations may be obtained at the de~
partmental offices.

CURRICULAR CHANGES

During this school year many College de-
partments have made significant changes
in their courses. This is especially
true of the following departments: Geol-
ogy, Astronomy, Botany,
German, Political Science, and Sociology.
Departments making somewhat less chanve
were: English, Fsychology, Speech and
Dramatic Art, Journalism, Philosophy,
Eome Economics, Economics, Mathematics.

Still other departments made minor changes

so that an unusually complete study of
our courses has been made during the year.

In addition during these closing weeks we
arc considering the question of general
and departmental honors and also of group
majors, All this would iundicate the
alertness of the faculty to needed and
Gesirable changes,

Romance Languages,

May 15, 1937.

FINAL EXAMINATIONS

Your cooperation is urgently requested
in following the final examination
schedule strictly. Only by so doing
can we avoid confusion,

According to Dean J, B, Johnston of the
College of Science Letters and Arts at
the University of Minnesota, there is the
following correlation between the high
school standing of students and their
college record.

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those with the top high school rating
86 to 100, © work or better in college
done by 80%,

Of those with a high school rating of
51 to 85, C work or better in college
done by 45%.

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Of those with a high school rating
to 50, C work or better in college
done by 18 to 25%,

Dean Johnston goes on to say:

"Freshman advisers tell me that the most
frequent single cause of low grades is
bad habits of study. I am inclined to
think that this is another synonym for
irresponsibility. Bad habits of study
for the most part mean bad habits of
mind and personality, slackness, care-
lessness, love of ease, lack of self-
criticism, and general willingness to
let things slide. A student can learn
to study if he undertakes to hold him-
self up to the task, A student who has
bad habits of study is one who has not
learned to study by trying."

WE SALUTE THEM $

We are sure that every member of the
College Faculty wishes to express his
appreciation to Frofessors Corbin, Hel-
leberg, Hopkins, Naismith, Stevens, and
Templin for their long and fine service
to the University and for the privileges
of ovr association with them through the
years. As these colleagues retire from
active service at the close of the sem-
ester we rise to salute them and trust
that for years to come we will continue
to have their fellowship and counsel.

THANK YOU?

Again all the folks in the College Office
thank you for your help during the year,
We hope you will have a much better
summer than in 1936.