Report [and appendices] of Royal Commission on University Finances. . Dec. 1920 1921 UNIVERSITY 88 KEPOBT OF ROYAL COMMISSION ON No. 65 APPENDIX V STATEMENT OF PROFESSOR ALEXANDER Memorandum. 1. As the result of a number of informal meetings and discussions several mem-bers of the teaching staff in the University of Toronto desire to emphasize certainaspects of academic work to which the Commission may not have given the attentionthat their importance justifies. 2. The most important point for the welfare of the University as a whole is theprovision of a staff adequate to the demand
Report [and appendices] of Royal Commission on University Finances. . Dec. 1920 1921 UNIVERSITY 88 KEPOBT OF ROYAL COMMISSION ON No. 65 APPENDIX V STATEMENT OF PROFESSOR ALEXANDER Memorandum. 1. As the result of a number of informal meetings and discussions several mem-bers of the teaching staff in the University of Toronto desire to emphasize certainaspects of academic work to which the Commission may not have given the attentionthat their importance justifies. 2. The most important point for the welfare of the University as a whole is theprovision of a staff adequate to the demands. (a) The demands made upon individual teachers at present are abnormal, in thatthe junior men do not get opportunities to develop into teachers equipped for thehigher positions; that the senior men are heavily handicapped by the amount of ele-mentary work they must undertake, and that in all grades there is an increasing lackof opportunity to give individual students an adequate amount of personal attention. (&) The development of research work in its relation to graduate instruction isintimatel
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