ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS MEET

The administrative officers of the New England colleges met in conference in Hanover on May 8 and 9. The delegates were principally deans of the various colleges, and included Deans Olds of Amherst, Sills of Bowdoin, Meiklejohn and Mr. Guild of Brown, liurlbut of Harvard, Wren of Tufts, Stevens and Hart of the University of Maine, Jones of Yale, and Professor Nicholson of Wesleyan. As in the meeting of college presidents held here in the fall, the discussion is entirely informal and no formal votes are taken. The value of the meetings lies in their complete freedom of discussion in approaching the vexed problems of college administration from so many different viewpoints. The following subjects are among those discussed at the recent meeting: honesty in written work and the honor system in examinations; the meaning of the term honorable dismission, and the method of granting it; credits for advanced standing for students transferring from other institutions ; compulsory chapel attendance and its enforcement; the best method of guarding the certificate in case the combined examination and certificate method of admission is adopted by the college; the extent to which colleges without professional schools give credit for graduation work done by their students in professional schools during the senior year while on leave of absence. These subjects, which' are only a few of those proposed for discussion, show that new problems are always rising before the college administrator, as well as new phases of ever-present problems.