COLLEGE COMMUNICATIONS

NOTICE OF FACULTY MEETING

The College Faculty will meet on Tues-
day, December 15, at 4:30, in the Central
Administration Auditorium, The meeting
promises to be short--so we know you will
want to come,

HOW DO YOU LIKE IT?

We refer to the title, which suggests the
idea that this sheet is to be used for
communicating information of importance
and interest regarding our work and life
as members of the College Faculty, All
members of the Faculty are cordially in-
vited to becomé joint editors by using
this paper to “communicate” their ideas
or suggestions to their colleagues,

And how @o you like the “columns” used
in this number?

WE FEEL HAPPY
Because last Tuesday this happened: An
upperclassman who had attended three
other colleges told us that this was the
first college where he had found the
faculty interested in his personal prog-+
ress. And on Thursday, another lad,
who had also been to three other colleges,
volunteered an almost identical statement.
In each case the colleges previously
attended were smaller than K.U. Perhaps
these students felt this way because of
such things as

ROOM 211, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING

Where from 3:30—5:30 daily the Mathe-
matics Department furnishes additional
help to all comers who are struggling
with Mathematics, The dean stepped into
this interesting room hast Thursday at
4:30 and found 18 students working with
each other, assisted by two graduate
students. While there, a “hard-boiled”
professor also dropped in to see what he
could do to help the 18<-and that was
after 4:30,

This is an example, among others, of what
we would like to think is the typical
attitude of our Faculty. Might your
department be able to help its students
more?

And this isn't softness-—several mathe
matics students will receive 's" in
January.

December 12, 1936.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION

The new regulations regarding foreign
languages became operative this fall, All
freshmen entering College for the first
time are now required to take cither ten
hours of a new language, or five»hours in
continuation of two or more units of a
high school language, or else pass a pro=
ficiency examination in the reading of
simple prose in the high school language.
The results of the proficiency examina-
tion, given for the first time this fall,
are as follows:

 

 

 

No, Taking Exam. No. Passed
Latin 19 4.
German 3 z
French 11 3
Spanish 10 1
Totals 43 9

SUPERIOR STUDENTS

Have you given your ideas regarding spee
cial treatment of superior students to th:
committee appointed to study the problem?
Dr. H, H. Lane is chairman,

THE NEXT ISSUE

We know you'll all be interested in our
next issué, which you will receive after
the holidays, for it will be a study of
the grades given in 1935-'36, The College
average and departmental averages will be
printed and the average of each instructor
will be mailed to him,

PROPAGANDA

"Propaganda, even though it is for the ends
that we believe good, is never the whole
truth, The rising generation must be pre
sented with the truth from all sides, and
left free to follow its own convictions——
otherwise it will be no better than its
ancestors," =-— Augustus Thomas,

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR

We cordially extend to every one of our
colleagues the season's greetings. May
1937 bring you all of the following:

1, A cooler summer,
2. More money--you deserve it and
you'll need it,

3. A peamse of growing interest in
your study and in your teaching,

4. A sense of growing happiness in
your work and associations,

5. hess bother from the dean,