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tact with the work of students; the direction and development of courses 
should remain actually in his hands and the work of assistants be under 
eonstant scrutiny. When it becomes impossible for a course to continue 
actually under the direct management of a senior instructor it should be 
placed in charge of a qualified associate whose responsibility wiil be the 
incentive for his best work; the plan followed in some universities of 
having courses nominally in the hands of those for whom it is impossible 
to actually direct the work, which is really done by junior men, is essen- 
tially unfair to the latter in withholding from them the credit to which 
they are entitled, not conducive to the best results in that it fails to provide 
the incentive for devoted effort on the part of those actually planning and 
administering the work, and an imposition on the college and the public, 
who believe the courses to be really administered by the more widely known 
teacher. Many a student has been disappointed in finding that he has little 
or no contact with the man advertised as having the work in charge. 
In growing institutions it is the usual experience of the teacher that 
other duties encroach more and more upon his instruction and research, the 
latter beivg first sacrificed. Some of these are indispensable, such as the 
keeping of accurate records of students’ work, and as institution and de- 
partment grow there is some unavoidable increase in the machinery for 
handling students; the red tape and machinery should be recognized as a 
necessary evil—a means not un end—and kept ut a minimum; if the choice 
were imposed between good teaching with no records and good records 
with no teaching, the election would be simple. There may be a conflict of 
opinion on this subject, however, between the engineer of the beautiful 
machine and the poor laborer whose energies are consumed in feeding it 
with reports. I believe that we devote too large a part of our attention to 
the lazy and incompetent, to the detriment of the more energetic and able 
students on account of the struggle for the prestige accorded to numbers, 
which we may also charge with the use of colleges as lounging places for 
the sport ond the intellectual dead-beat. It is surely unfortunate if a 
teacher has to spend his time in keeping elaborate records of and forcing 
the loafers instead of stimulating and satisfying the gifted. 
The question of salary has an intimate bearing upon the efficiency of 
college teachers, and it is generally admitted that they are underpaid. The 
cost of living varies so widely in different college towns that a salary 
adequate in one would be entirely insufficient in another, so that it is 
