Show Faculty Detective Work I Ithe All the Normal Students Are Carefully Watched A Record Book Kept by the Facu Faculty y in Which Is Written the Manners Deportment t Characteristics and Character of Every Normal It is not generally known that there is a great Dooms-day Dooms book among mon the the secret records of the f faculty culty in which are written many things that 1 largely I determine the fate of every normal student student in the U. U of U U. It is nevertheless nevertheless less less ess a fact and the secret is now divulged divulged divulged di di- by the Chronicle as a big bigi i editors and a scoop on p past st a good story for the students student's which may stimulate the normal students to tobe tobe be more careful in their actions and andI I appearance from now on Yes each member of the faculty is daily acting as detective and observes the minutest details of every normal student of his character of his lis manners of his decorum of his personal personal appearance in cleanliness and neatness the the whole hole story tory of his life ife while attending the University f is written down in unfading ink on everlasting everlasting ever- ever lasting asting paper And this record stands as ELS a long life-long witness for or ag against the students student's reputation When a county superintendent comes omes to the institution in search of good teach teachers rs the solemn record is laid open and the bare characters of the students revealed The book shows hows three or four grades of worthiness worthiness worthiness ness such as very good good or fairAnd fair And nd the strength of the recommendation tion made by the faculty by no means depends entirely upon the scholastic record of the student all these other qualities of character and disposition have their important place and in inmany inmany inmany many cases if not in most cases they are re of more importance than the class records Such a record is distinctively modern modern modern mod mod- ern growing out of th the fact that pedants pedants pedants ped ped- ants and book worms book s who know about everything but men and human nature nature na na- ture and who love everything but human kind are no longer longer- considered good teachers To be a teacher according according according ac ac- cording cording- to the modern idea is not to tobe tobe tobe be an encyclopedic tank from which the facts will vill flow whenever the tap is turned It is warm-blooded warm character charac charac- ter n not t cold cold-bl cold blooded oded intellect t that makes the great teacher While it is for this reason reason that the faculty keeps the solemn record of normal students it seems v very very ry strange that in the training and edu educating educating cating eating of th the young young teachers there there there-is is not much greater att attention and emphasis emphasis em em- given t to o this higher attribute of th the go good d t teacher acher teacher character Perhaps ps the divulging of f this secret will start some wholesome thinking among normal students as well vell as asmore as asmore asmore more care in in- actions in |