Show A Nut ut for the Profs to Crack It may be too late this year to tomake M make any effort to remedy an evil existing in inthe inthe inthe the University that is too apparent to even the most casual observer but to speak of l it now may insure its being avoided in the future I refer to what seems to be a mania among professors and instructors to outdo each other in p piling ling work upon upon already overworked students Everyone knows that toward the end of the year all of us have all that we can bear up under to prepare for II finals and keep along in our classes even though we had nothing else to do We have really no time to act on com corn committees committees of all kinds as we must do no notime notime notime time to prepare for our Class Day exercises exercises exercises exer exer- which must be given I enquired of one of those on the program for Class Day wh what t he intended to give and received the reply that it would probably have to be a lesson in Geology in-Geology or Training Training Training Train Train- ing as he had no time to prepare anything anything anything any any- thing else 3 i j i J i h b. b d Perhaps you think I am II talking through my hat so to be specific One professor who all year yea has been too lenient with his class not giving them enough to do seems now to have entered the professors' professors race and is striving striving striving ing to distance all competitors About two weeks leeks ago he began assigning lessons lessons lessons les les- sons that would make ones one's hair stand standon on end Why Another who h has s had all year to assign assign assign as as- sign subjects for final papers in his department failed to mention the fact that such assignments would be forthcoming forthcoming forthcoming forth forth- coming until very recently and now students in his classes are sitting up nights to prepare them Another who has the reputation of being the most exacting in the University University University sity and who has never been known to assign a lesson that did not require for its preparation every minute of f the average two and one half hours assigns assigns assigns as as- signs outside work on which examination is to be given Another but Another but what is the use of enumerating enumerating enumerating enu enu- them You are all as familiar with such cases as I am The writer has never taken training training- nor is he very well versed in the methods of Pedagogy and so may not be very very competent to judge but but it seems to him that like some of our good Christian brethren who are are re zealous workers in ill furnishing Bibles to the heathen our worthy laborers in the cause of educational m methods might spend a few moments of the day in gazing gazing gazing gaz gaz- ing about at home and leave the Fourteenth Fourteenth Fourteenth Four Four- Ward primary children to take care of themselves If it t is a pedagogical pedagogical cal principle to let students loiter along for eight months and then give them such an amount of work work to do in the remaining four weeks that they must either kill themselves to meet the requirements requirements requirements re re- or else half or less than half do everything if only the they can II pass I J I then I confess my ignorance of pedagogical pedagogical pedagogical principles 1 I fancy I hear some professor say Mr Haslett must not be very busy if he can find time to complain Dear misguided soul Mr H. H although he I like other mortals eats to live has missed his supper for this very purpose which is also a proof that his kick is not due to indigestion and then besides besides besides be be- f sides he expects to get credit for his CHRONICLE work and if he dont don't f J earn all th that t he gets it wont won't be the Faculty's fault fault auf au 1 2 C. C Haslett v |