University to Discontinue Monitoring in 28 Courses

Monitors will report attendance in 40 courses this fall instead of the usual 60 or 70, Registrar Sargent Kennedy '28 said yesterday.

This announcement follows the Faculty's decision Tuesday to take attendance only in courses "regularly open to freshmen" which have a total enrollment of 50 or more undergraduates. Under the 1948 rules, attendance was taken in all these elementary courses, regardless of the number of men enrolled, and in those courses in which the majority of students were freshmen.

The new minimum enrollment requirement will eliminate monitors from 24 of the 64 "freshman" courses offered this fall. Attendance-taking will be dropped in four courses--Chemistry 20, Economics 1, History 61, and Psychology 1--in which more than half the students are freshmen.

The number of monitored courses may be still further reduced to increase the flexibility of the attendance rules, the faculty decided. Since many of these elementary courses contain mainly upperclassmen this year, the Administrative Board can take exception to the rules, if it wishes, and if asked by the instructor.

Music 1 Exempted

Archibald T. Davison, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music, who teaches Music 1, said that he has already requested that no attendance be taken in his course "because of the relatively small number of freshmen taking it this year."

The Registrar's office indicated yesterday that Geology 1 might also apply for exemption. This course has 15 freshmen out of 135 enrollees. Lewis D. Leet, Chairman of the Department of Geology, said last night that probably no appeal would be made since the University provides monitors for large lecture courses like Geology 1. Leet said that primarily the small section courses, in which the professor would have to call the roll, will ask for exemption.