COLLEGE ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION,

' 12. The Catholic University of AmericaPress, 194 J; 403 pages; $4.50.

Every college faculty member and administrator in the United States could peruse with profit these 31 papers read at the sessions of the workshop conducted at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D. C., from June 17 to June 27, 1946. Although the liberal arts college is often harshly criticized, the great fact remains that this unique American institution has contributed to the growth and happiness of the American people. We are not likely to scrap it.

The president, we are told, should have an appreciation of scholarship, research, teaching proficiency, and an interest in the faculty member as a person and as a friend. The dean of the faculty should be a man of superior tastes, dignity, and cultivation, who has attained competence in teaching and research and thus earned the right to judge the attainments of others. The registrar, many years ago, sat in his office and leisurely penned in fine artistic style in his huge book of records the grades of the college student. That was almost the sum total of his activity. But today his multitudinous tasks at times give his office the appearance of Grand Central Station during rush hours. The treasurer—but some do not—should issue a detailed annual report to keep alumni and friends of the college informed of the institution's financial condition; and there should be a complete audit of his books at the end of every fiscal year.

The assertion is made—alas, probably truthfully—that the least satisfactory teaching in America is being done in the liberal arts college, because many teachers are:

1. Lazy, do not prepare daily class work, fail to reorganize material.

2. Self-centered, self-satisfied, self-opinionated.

3. Stale, fossilized, unaware of being in a rut.

4. Not professionally minded, no sympathy with college objectives, indifferent.