J. E. Creighton
Published: 2015-08-05
Total Pages: 36
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Excerpt from Some Problems of the Graduate School: An Informal Report to the Faculty This organization still continues to exist. Each one of the five Groups has its own chairman, who also represents the Group as a member of the General Committee. It was hoped that one advantage of this organization would be that the Faculty as a whole would receive from time to time recommendations arid suggestions regarding the best method of dealing with particular questions from the various Group or Groups that were most, intimately acquainted with the problems involved. These expectations have scarcely been fulfilled. For some years no recommendations have, I think, been made by any Group; and I understand that in most cases meetings are held only once in three years, when it becomes necessary to elect a representative to the General Committee. I believe that the idea which underlies this organization of the Faculty into Groups is a good one; and it is desirable that it should not become obscured. To prevent such a result, I would suggest that each Chairman should from time to time call the attention of his group to matters of especial interest, and that each group should hold at least one regular meeting every year. It would, in my opinion, strengthen the Graduate School if the Deans of all the Colleges of the University were members of its Faculty. As the heads of Colleges, they consider and make recommendations regarding provision for graduate as well as for undergraduate work, thus acting to a considerable extent as the spokesmen and representatives of the Graduate School to the President and the Trustees. There seems to be every reason why they should be ex officio members of the organization specially charged with maintaining and promoting these interests. One may perhaps hope that the relation would be reciprocally advantageous; at any rate it seems to me certain that the Graduate School would be strengthened by such an extension of its membership. Graduate Work In The Summer The number of students pursuing graduate work during the summer months has markedly Increased in recent years, and the question of making provision for carrying on this work in the future demands consideration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.