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pared with 65 first-year students in the class of 1942. A » of the women with one exception. Enrollment in the second-year courses has also dec! wed 32 students are enrolled in the second-year work as contra * ^ V asted students in 1041-42. with 3;

Three-Semester Plan Adopted

Just as the News Letter was going to press, the University Senat e convened to decide whether the University should (1) continue the twel weeks summer session, as in 1942, (2) introduce a summer semester equi in length to each of the two winter semesters, or (3) revert to our usIJl system of two semesters and an eight-weeks summer session. Earlier Senate action had ruled out a shift to a four-quarter system. The following plan was adopted by the Senate at its meeting on November 11. T e h Library School will, with other colleges and schools, start to work in> mediately on details of a program for the summer of 1943 on the basis of # outs1 this decision: 1. That beginning in June, 1943, and for the duration of the war, the basic operation of the University shall be with three equal semesters, each semester to be sixteen weeks in length (including final examinations), and oi absence with a week's interval between semesters and a week's vacation at verity of Christmas. We recommend that the summer session begin about the middle in the Libr of June, as being a time which will make it possible for high school students from Chicago as well as from other areas to enter. on leave o con2. That a summer session of eight weeks shall be offered to run Harold B< .-1 currently with the first half of the summer semester. 3. That in cases of University divisions or departments where the operation of a full 16-week summer semester would seem to be unwise or impracticable, Schools and Colleges may recommend to the Central \ ar Committee that instruction in specified subjects be offered only m * * 1M2. issi 8-weeks summer session. The Central War Committee shall have the auSchool,} thority of determining procedure in these cases, in the light of local! conPhy and ditions and of such requirements as may later on be imposed by the A Ntion and the Navy. Duri taught c

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Faculty Notes

Director White spoke at a general session of the Minneapolis *•*£? Association Conference in October, on professional education for librajw ship with special reference to the University of Illinois Library ^Jio • He gave talks at meetings of the Minn,»a™i;c T i h « r „ Association and \ Illinois Library Association o books warfare of ideas. Director emeritus Windso riUnois Libraries—on* Windsor and Mrs. V n •re V W P t n e t,me h thcir BS'32 M V ' V R iK • \ ^ y daughter. W B.b.32, M.S. 38, librarian of Coe College, Cedar Rapids, low

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