AN EMBARGO ON PROFESSORS

The University is deeply sensible of the significant honor accorded it by the large and ever increasing number of the faculty who are engaged in the many ramifications of war work at the request of the Government. As the exodus of professors goes steadily on, however, the graduates and undergraduates of the University are commencing to wonder with dismay when the drain upon the teaching staff is to end. A glance at the pamphlet of courses, with its "omitted in 1918-19" extending over page after page in almost unbroken sequence, shows to what a great degree the faculty is depleted by the necessities of war work. And from the faculty already minus too many of its ablest men the continued demands on it are being answered with startling frequency by new leaves of absence.

This continuing exodus of professors is in direct contrast to the large and growing number of students back in College this term. It is a disappointment to the latter to find so many desirable courses, once taught by professors, given by men of lower rank and less experience due to the absence of the former. After the free and willing sacrifices which all connected with the University have made during the war surely it cannot be unreasonably selfish to regard the continued depletion of the faculty as the over doing of a good thing. Some consideration should be given to the claims which the students have upon the time and attention of the professors, for especially do the upperclassmen suffer a loss, which they cannot make good later, by denying them the opportunity of instruction by experts. Hence, in the future we would suggest that requests for members of the faculty, which involve their departure from College, be subjected to the most rigid weighing of the pros and cons--that the loss to the students be considered as well as the gain to others.