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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 

 constant scrutins'. 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 will 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 exjx'rience of the teacher that 

 other duties enci'oach more and move upon his instruction and research, the 

 latter being 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 an end — and kept at 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 energeti,c 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 and the intellectual dead-beat. It is surely unfortunate if a 

 teacher has to spend his time- in keeping elaborate records of and forcing 

 {he 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 



