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of Arts and Sciences, would be a step towards unification and organization,

Therefore resolved, That we recommend

I. That such public lectures be arranged for the academic year 1906-1907.

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That the Trustees be requested to make an appropriation of $500 for this purpose.

That the Dean, as executive officer of the Faculty, with the advice and assistance of the Committee on Educational Policy, be empowered to arrange for such lectures.

That so far as possible the lectures be given at the same hour of the day,"

and the report was adopted and transmitted to the Executive Committee, which body subsequently appropriated $400 in accordauce with the Faculty's recommendation.

Under this provision the following lectures have been delivered before the College of Arts and Sciences during the academic year, 1906-1907:

Nov. 5th, Colonel Walter S. Schuyler, "With the Russian Army in Manchuria."

Nov. 9th, Professor Clarence H. Young, "Ancient Greek Costume."

Jan. 17th, Gen. Horatio C. King, "The Great Civil War."

Feb. 8th, Dr. William Libbey, "Hawaii, the Pearl of the Pacific." Feb. 14th, Dr. Frederick J. Bliss, "Excavations at Jerusalem and in the Mounds of Palestine."

March 8th, Mr. Hammond Lamont, "The Daily in a Democracy." March 11th, The Rev. Hugh Black, "Books and Reading." April 5th, Mr. J G. Phelps Stokes, "What is Socialism? " April 15th, Dr. Joseph Larmor, "The Modern Theory of Energy." May 20th, The Hon. Enrique Creel, “President Diaz and His Policies."

May 27th, Dr. L. L. Seaman, "Some of the Curses of Colonization," and $104.05 of the appropriation remained unexpended at the end of the year.

The Committee on Educational Policy also recommended, the Faculty approved and the Executive Committee appropriated $500 for the publication of a special announcement for the College of Arts and Sciences. The special committee appointed April 5th, on the

resignation of the committee first charged with this duty, performed its delicate task skillfully and acceptably.

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences at its meeting of February 8th, 1907, received from the Board of Trustees, through the University Faculty, a recommendation that the minimum age limit for women entering the University be raised from 17 to 18, and referred it to the Committee on Educational Policy. That committee reported to the Faculty March 1st, opposing the change. Its recommendation was adopted and the following memorandum on the subject from the committee was adopted and transmitted through the University Faculty to the Board of Trustees:

FEBRUARY 19th, 1907

To the Faculty of Arts and Sciences:

GENTLEMEN:-The Committee on Educational Policy has been asked to consider the following resolution, "That the age qualifying for admission of women to the University be raised from 17 to 18," which was recommended to the University Faculty by the Board of Trustees, referred by that Faculty to the Faculties of the several Colleges concerned, and referred by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to the Committee on Educational Policy.

As no statement of reasons accompanied this resolution, the committee has sought by correspondence and otherwise to ascertain the arguments on which the proposal is based, and the way in which the adoption of it would probably affect the College of Arts and Sciences. At the present time there are 357 women in Cornell University, 55 in the graduate department and 312 in the undergraduate Colleges. Of the 55 graduate students none matriculated in the graduate department for the first time below the age of 18. Of the 312 in the several Colleges of the University 50, or 16 per cent., first matriculated at Cornell University when less than 18 years of age and these 50 were all in the College of Arts and Sciences. There are 284 women students in the College of Arts and Sciences, candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and of these 50, or 18 per cent., would have been unable to matriculate at the time they did had the change been in force.

Your committee also sought to ascertain the ages at which women students graduate from the high schools of the State or country. It could get no information on the subject from the National Bureau of Education or the State Department of Education,

but has utilized the figures of the Ithaca High School with the following results: during the past five years 212 women have graduated from that school and of these 44, or 21 per cent., would have been less than 18 years of age in the September following graduation, and thus debarred from admission to Cornell University under the proposed change. It seems fair to infer therefore in default of other evidence that about one-fifth of the women who might apply for admission to Cornell University, after graduating from some high school or other fitting school, would be debarred from entrance by the proposed change in the age limit.

At the present time there are 92 women holding State scholarships in Cornell University, and of these 22 or 24 per cent. first matriculated below the age of 18. If these figures may be regarded as typical, then it would seem that five or six young women each year whose scholarship enabled them to win this prize would be debarred from the University and from availing themselves of it, if the change proposed should be adopted.

Your committee has also made an examination of the regulations at other coeducational colleges and universities, and has been unable to find one in this country in which the age limit for women is as high as 18.

The committee has not been convinced by any evidence submitted to it that the evil results of the present rules are serious enough to require or justify the restriction proposed. They believe, on the contrary, that the present adjustment is working with reasonable smoothness and satisfaction, and that no change is desirable. After so voting they instructed the chairman to prepare this memorandum to accompany the committee's recommendation that the change be not approved.

For the Committee,

WALTER F. WILLCOX, Chairman

THE COMMITTEE ON ACADEMIC RECORDS

The action of this committee in passing upon the cases of delinquent students is indicated in the following table in which the figures of the last five years are brought together for comparison :

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For the year just ended the class of "students dropped" in the above table falls into two divisions, those who are merely dropped for one term and will be allowed to take up their work again after an absence of a term, and those who are permanently excluded from the College. The latter class consists of those whose record previous to the last term, either in this College or in some other College of this University, had been so unsatisfactory that they had been put on probation and warned by the Dean that a continuance of their unsatisfactory record would result in their permanent exclusion. In this class of persons permanently excluded, there were four for the first term of the current year and seven for the second term.

The increase in the number of students dropped during the last 4 years is due in the main to the raised standard of requirements for remaining in the College. Until four years ago it was the rule that students who passed 10 hours could continue. Since that time an effort has been made to insist upon students passing at least 12 hours or at least two-thirds of the work for which they were registered, and in consequence a number of students have been dropped who in previous years would have been allowed to continue. It is believed that this requirement of a larger amount of work has had a salutary effect upon the scholarship of the students.

In judging these figures it should be borne in mind that in a number of cases students withdraw from the College without obtaining an honorable dismissal or a leave of absence and thus without giving any information regarding their action. In such cases the record at the end of the term simply shows a blank with no explanation or excuse. Several such students are dropped every year who would have been entitled to a leave of absence or an honorable dismissal, had the facts as they subsequently appear been brought to the knowledge of the committee. It should be noticed also that some students are dropped who have a valid explanation, like sickness, which they have failed to present and others, especially at the end of

the second term, who are able before the beginning of the following term to bring their records above the required minimum of twelve hours. For these reasons the foregoing table does not exactly represent the final result of the committee's action but only the situation at the end of the specified term.

LEAVES OF ABSENCE

Absences on account of illness where the student remains in town, which used to be granted to men by the professor of physical culture and to the women by the instructor in Sage College in charge of the gymnasium, are now no longer issued. Absences from town on the part of members of the athletic organizations or of delegates to fraternity conventions or other student organizations are merely countersigned by the Dean, being issued by the Committee on Student Organizations through the Registrar. All other absences are granted by the Dean. The number and classes of causes assigned are given in the following list. The corresponding figures for the four preceding years are introduced for comparison.

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In closing my last report as Dean I feel bound to express my sense of personal obligation to the members of the two committees of the Faculty, the Committee on Academic Records and the Committee on Educational Policy, for the patience, the interest, and good judgment with which they have deliberated and acted during all my association with them, and especially to my predecessor as

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