Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-05-26
FUTRALL REPORTS
ON CONDITION Of
STATE VARSITY
President Of Institution
4 Shows Progress and Needs
of Peoples School.
FUNDS NOT PLACED
AS LAW REQUIRES
University Is Handicapped Tor Lack
of Money. aud Legislature viii Be
Called Upon to Rectify Wrong Of
Illegal Investments.

IIVSHi JuNCStH1 III -
The report of John c. Futrall, presi-
dent of the University of Arkansas,
for tie college year of 19l5-l6, has
just been submitted to the board Of
trustees Of the university. The report
treats in detail of such matters as
the course of study, conditions among
the student body, scholarship, finan-
cial affairs, etc.
Educational Policies.
Under the head Of Educational
Poiicies," the report says:
"The new entrance requirements do
not vary greatly from the old except
in that they are little more flexible
They are so arranged that the COM
bined high school and college course
will form an educational unit. In the
course of study leading to the degree,
important changes have been made.
The only study absolutely required for
the Bachelor of Arts degree will in
future be one year of English. The
equivalent Of ten college hours in
some one foreign language will also
be required. Only three hours of
this, however, must of necessity be
done in the University. The balance
may be satisfied by offering d foreign
language as an entrance requirement
"The various studies taught in the
college of arts and science are divided
into groups and these are require
ments that student must offer a
certain minimum number of hours
from each group and that he is not
allowed to offer more than certain
number from each group.
"The central idea of the new course
is to allow the student as great liberty
of selection as possible; to require him
to select a major subject upon which
he will concentrate; and to require
such distribution of his subjects as
twill give him a general view of the
educational! field
Grading.
The report gives an account of the
new system Of grading recently adopt
ed by the University senate. Under
the new rule, there will be six grades,
A, B, C, D, E, and F, the last two Of
which represent failure. A student
who receives an E may remove the
failure by a re-eXamination but a stu
dent making grade of F must repeat
the course in class in order to receive
credit.
1t is the understanding chat, in the
long run, grade marks shall be dis
tributed about as follows: 10 per cent
or less of the students shall receive
the A grade, approximately 20 pc!
cent. the B grade, 40 to so per cent
the C grade, approximately 20 PEI
cent, the B grade 40 to so per cent
less the E and F grades combined. Ii
is understood that this scale cannot be
| applied to small classes.
The principal upon which the new
system rests is that the mental char
acteristics of human beings vary
about as physical characteristics, anc
the grading in the university will
hereafter be done on scientific basis
rather than in accordance with the
whim of the individual instructor.
Scholarship.
The following statement is mad;
with regard to scholarship:
"The university is gradually raisina
the standard of it's scholarship re
quirements. There has for some year.
been rule that in order to be allowed
to remain in the university, studen
must pass on at least nine hours o
, work per week. The normal numbe
of hours taken by the average studen
is sixteen. In years past, the rule ha
been enforced with considerable laxity
This year the deans and scholarship
committees have made very great ct
forts to keep in close touch with al
students in their colleges and to fin
out beforehand what students wer
likely to fail and to give them warn
ing. In the case of those students VIII
fell little below the nine-hour re
quirement leniency has been exercised
and only those who failed to pass o
as much as six hours were actual
sent home. In most cases, the stu
dents who went home for failure i
scholarship passed on nothing. TIL
total number who have been droppe
} in the course of the year for failur
in scholarship is 10. Seven of thcs
!. afterwards entered the Universit
J High school in order to prepare them
selves to enter the freshman elias
next year.
every precaution has been used t
avoid sending students home if Their
I seemed to be any possibility that the
2 might remain and do good work. TIL
result has been a considerable i'm
provement in the standard of scholar
ship among the students. This Who'll
3 movement is in harmony with an ide
that is spreading over the entire coun
try; that is, that students who do no
: intend to work in college, who ar
there to loaf, to have good tim
socially or for any other purpose tina
to do the actual college work, shout
. not be allowed to usurp the advant
fages offered by collegs Of univel
: sity and prevent good students fror
utilizing those advantages in tn
: highest possible degree"
Enrolment.
The report shows that the tots
: registration of students enrolled in tn
3 regular nine-months session at Fay
b etteville this year is S14. Thes
!. figures do not include students regis
n tered in the. summer session, CORES
y noadence students, students enrol!e
j. il the short course for formers, Q;
II tension students; or students in Il
department Of medicine OF the Brant
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