Statistics of Land-grant Colleges and Universities, Volume 1, Issues 1-20

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1929 - Agricultural colleges

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Page 23 - D. degree are urgently recommended, but the teacher's success is to be determined by the efficiency of his teaching, as well as by his research work.
Page 41 - ... (a) It shall require as a condition of admission at least two years of study in a college; < b) It shall require its students to pursue a course of three years duration if they devote substantially all of their working time to their studies, and a longer course, equivalent in the number of working hours, if they devote only part of their working time to their studies.
Page 15 - A college should be judged in large part by the ratio which the number of persons of professorial rank with sound training, scholarly achievement, and successful experience as teachers bears to the total number of the teaching staff.
Page 30 - Each teachers college or normal school shall make definite provisions to insure for its students living conditions which provide proper safeguards for health, morals, and mental efficiency, and shall foster a responsible type of citizenship and leadership on the part of individuals.
Page 25 - A college should have a live, well-distributed, professionally administered library of at least 8,000 volumes, exclusive of public documents, bearing specifically upon the subjects taught and with a definite annual appropriation for the purchase of new books.
Page 27 - The location and construction of the buildings, the lighting, heating, and ventilation of the rooms, the nature of the lavatories, corridors, closets, water supply, school furniture, apparatus, and methods of cleaning shall be such as to insure hygienic conditions for both pupils and teachers.
Page 25 - The training of the members of the faculty of professorial rank shall include at least two years of study in their respective fields of teaching in a recognized graduate school, presumably including the Master's degree.
Page 18 - ... department. The size of the faculty should bear a definite relation to the type of institution, the number of students, and the number of courses offered. With the growth of the student body the number of full-time teachers should be proportionately increased.

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