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Child Psychology will be the subject of a half-year course to be given the first half of next year. It will be given by Roger G. Barker, whose appointment as instructor in Psychology next year was announced several days...
...which will be circulated today, take exception to any slur on the "teaching capacity and scholarly ability" of the men. They point out the fact that Walsh's course on Labor Problems has grown in enrollment from 44 to 127, and that last year's students in Sweezy's half-year course in Economic Theory approved the course so much that they voted to continue for another term with no extra credit...
...Fleeting study is attempted of all the great masters and monuments since the Roman era, and Professor Opdycke's conduct of the course is masterly. There is no necessity, however, other than considerations of economy, for the compression of such significant subject matter into the scope of a single half-year. No course in the College could be more deserving of further attention, and few men would begrudge the extra hours spent in handling this as a full-year course. Numberless small but interesting facts could be added to the skeleton which is now presented. Some more fundamental sections...
From last year's uneven experience one all-important conclusion may be drawn--everything depends upon the reviewer. He must be a man who is enthusiastic and willing to spend himself in an effort to bring into focus a half-year's work. His summary must be a happy synthesis of facts and significant trends. If he shirks, if he warms over a few cold lecture notes, he will lose his own audience and do much to blight a slowly-blossoming system...
Study cards for the second half-year are due today at 5 o'clock in Room C, University Hall. Failure to hand in his card (whether he expects to be in College or not) will render the student liable for a $5 fine. A. C. Handford