Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-13
CONNECTICUT COLLEGE
Various Promotions in Teaching Staff -New Positions Created-FIans to Accommodate Incoming Class.

. The annual meeting of the board of trustees of Connecticut College was held in the office of the president, at the college, Friday. May b. from 1S0 to p. m.
 Reports were presented as follows: The report of the treasurer. the exe- cutive committee committee on edu- cation and instruction, the committee on endowment and action taken on each.
 The main interest of the meeting centered ins the report of the commit- tee on education which was presented by the president, B. T. Marshall, and which included in the first place plans for the standardization of grades of instructors in the college, of a scale of salaries, of a scale of teaching hours. and for more complete organ ization of the college offices.
 Promotions were made as follows:
 Associate Professor David D. Leib to full professor of mathematics. Instructor Carola Leonie Ernst to assistant professor of romance lan- guages.
 Instructor Hazel Woodruff, instruc- tor of physical education, to the rank of assistant professor with the title also of director of physical education. Several increases in salaries also were voted.
 New positions recommended By the committee on instruction were created as follows: Assistant professor in l chemistry who shall assist in the de- | partment of chemistry on the organic side and assist also in the department of nutrition and dietetics, as well as ] the following: Instructor in English, assistant professor of political science | Sf1~ ofO in
 and education, instructor in physics l and astronomy, instructor in physical | education. assistant professor in Bi- | blical history and literature, resident
 college physician and instructor in l hygiene.
 The resignation of Professor w l Scott Boyce, assistant professor of l economies, was accepted, to take eff feet June 30, 1918.
 Indefinite leave of absence was
 granted to Instructor Frank F. Nor ris, instructor in philosophy, psychol- ogy and education, who under the psychology division of the sanitary
 corps of the medical department of the United States army.
 Authorization was given for further l improvement and equipment in the laboratories of the college, and pro- vision was also made for more class rooms for instruction by means of the
 remodeling of the basement Of Plant House.
 The duties of several officers of the
 college were more perfectly defined and other items of importance to the
 college community were carefully con,
 sidered.
 Owing to the general situation pro. duced by the war and the fnancia
 stringency in which all institutions 0
 learning find themselves, particular!
 in the matter of increasing endowfnen
 or making even adequate provision fo
 the future, the chairman of the board was authorized to appoint a commit tee to proceed immediately with plans !; insuring sufficient. and worthy accom- ) modations for students who plan t enter Connecticut College as mem , hers of the class of 1922. Furthe publicity concerning their findings vii ; be made in due time. The places of outgoing trustees l whose terms expired at this meeting were filled. and Mrs. E. V. Mitchell 0 l Hartford and Dean Wilbur L. Cross 0 Yale were elected to succeed them selves for a term of five years. Tn election of other officers of the boar o trustees was deferred to anothe
 meeting.