. MINUTES OF THE UNIVEhS

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November 8» 1937

\ The University Senate met in the Lecture Room of McVey Hall Monday,
November 8, 1937. President McVey presided.

 

 

The minutes of October ll were read and approved.

The Committee on Duplication of Jourses presented the following new course
which was approved:

History 176. The Third French Republic. A study of

the parties, politics, administration, diplomacy, economy,

social movements, and general culture of France from 1870

to the present. A reading knowledge of French will be

helpful to graduate students. Lectures, readings, reports,

and discussions. Three hours per week; three credits. '

 

 

 

 

‘JfgL The following recommendation of the College of Agriculture was approved:

Change Animal Industry 104, Animal Breeding¢_from four
credits to three credits.

 

President McVey called attention to the next convocation, on November 18, the
Speaker scheduled for that date being Dr. Sherman Smith, and the subject,
”Voice, a Golden Gift”.

 

The report of the Special Committee on the State of the University was
presented for consideration of the Senate. COpies of this report had
_ previously been placed in the hands of the members. After a brief statement
, by Chairman Neil Plummer, President McVey outlined the nature of the report,
I calling attention particularly to the characteristics of its different parts.
It was pointed out that the actual recommendations of the Committee covered
only four points, as follows: Faculty Ethics, Supplementary Statement on a
Research Program, FacultyuUniversity Relations, and Mimeographed Material,
and that the other two parts represented,first,the comments of the Chairman of
the Committee and,second, a digest of 52 letters received from members of the
Committee and otherso

 

! In connection with the discussion of the comments related to administrative

1 organization, President McVey read to the Senate from the Bulletin entitled
"Organization of the Board of Trustees, Conduct of Business Matters, Governing
Regulations of the University”, the statements of the composition and functions
of the University Senate and the University Assembly. The President emphasized
the importance of each faculty member becoming acquainted with this manual, and
with the Rules of the University Senate.

 

 

In reSponse to the request of President McVey for comments on the report,
several members of the Senate expressed their Opinions concerning specific items.
Most of the opinions expressed related to college and departmental organization, fi
‘!§*k to the Committee on Duplication of Courses, and to the necessity for making ’
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