render its full service to the University; nor will there be developed in our student body that craft consciousness, the absence of which is a real obstacle to the professional training of teachers within the University.

2. The constitution of a proper budget for the work for the training of teachers.

The present budget of the Course for the Training of Teachers is a fiscal anomoly. It includes but a small portion of the amount devoted to the work of the training of teachers. It also includes items that have a remote relationship to that work. A properly constituted budget for the Course for the Training of Teachers is desirable in order that the University and the State may know how much money is actually being spent on the work of the training of teachers.

3. The development of a closer constructive supervision of those University activities existing primarily for the professional training of teachers.

A most important advance step was made last year when the requirements for the University Teachers Certificate were modified in that the Committee on the Training of Teachers was given the supervisory direction of the professional work which will, it is hoped, serve to bring about greater unity than has been possible under the former plan of departmental autonomy.

V. SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS

As a matter of definite record, and for your further consideration, I present the following recommendations, the supporting arguments for which will be elaborated in connection with the next budget proposals for the Course for the Training of Teachers:

1. That the Wisconsin High School building be completed at the earliest possible date.

2. That provision be made for the regular visitation and assistance, by the University, of all teachers in the high schools of the state, who are graduates of the University Course for the Training of Teachers, and who are in their first year of teaching service.

3. That adequate financial provision be made for the conduct of the Wisconsin High School during the summer quarter.

4. That the salaries of the teaching staff of the Wisconsin High School be arranged in accordance with such a definite schedule as will enable the securing and retaining of teachers of superior skill.

5. That provision be made for courses of instruction in the Department of Education, and in such other departments as may be necessary, for the advanced instruction of teachers of defective children, and of other special classes of pupils now being established in the public school system.

Respectfully submitted,

EDWARD C. ELLIOTT,

Director, Course for the Training of Teachers.

REPORT OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COURSE IN JOURNALISM

Dean E. A. Birge,

College of Letters and Science.

Dear Sir: In response to your request, I beg leave to submit the following report on the growth and the needs of the Course in Journalism.

GROWTH OF THE COURSE

When the first course in journalism was organized by the present chairman in the fall of 1905 it was one of the first attempts in this country to give college students systematic training in preparation for newspaper writing and editing. In 1906 -07 those studies in the College of Letters and Science that were most important in preparation for journalism were organized into a four-year "Course Preparatory for Journalism." These courses were reorganized in 1909 into the present "Course in Journalism." In 1912 the courses in journalism were organized as a separate department, affiliated with the English Department, but with a chairman and budget of its own. This year the Department of Journalism has been made independent of the Department of English, so that students may now take their undergraduate major in journalism.

Since the first classes in journalism were organized at The University of Wisconsin and a four-year training course in preparation for journalism was provided, other institutions have developed similar courses until now practically all of the larger state universities and many colleges offer instruction in this field. In the large state universities technical training in journalism has been developed to a greater degree than it has at Wisconsin, for well equipped printing plants have been es

tablished at a number of these institutions, from which daily newspapers are issued by the students of journalism.

Despite the rise and the development of the teaching of journalism in these other colleges and universities, the number of students enrolled in the Course in Journalism at The University of Wisconsin has steadily increased. It now ranks as the third largest of the special training courses in the University, being exceeded in numbers only by the Course for the Training of Teachers and by the Course in Commerce. It is also among the largest schools of journalism in the colleges and the universities of the country.

The Course in Journalism has been materially strengthened during the last two years. The organization of the Department of Journalism as an independent department this year has been of decided advantage in the development of its instructional and administrative work. The lack of adequate quarters for the Department of Journalism which has seriously handicapped its work for several years has been remedied by assigning to the department this year that portion of the third floor of South Hall hitherto occupied by the Department of Bacteriology. When these new rooms are fully equipped, they will afford ample space for the varied needs of the department. The addition to the instructional staff of the department of an assistant and a student assistant also makes possible more effective instruction. The efficiency of teaching in the department has been greatly increased during the past few years as a result of the extension of a plan of having frequent conferences with every student in the journalism classes. At these individual conferences the instructor goes over with each student his work of the week in order to show him how to overcome his difficulties in writing.

Through co-operation with other departments of the University it has been possible to add several important studies to the Course in Journalism.

By arrangement with the Extension Division the services have been secured of Professor R. S. Butler of the Department of Business Administration as lecturer in journalism for a course in Newspaper Advertising. This course, which was given for the first time last year, is to be offered every year hereafter. By means of this course and that which has been given by the

Department of Philosophy for some years on the psychology of advertising, students of journalism are now able to study the fundamental principles of one of the most important phases of newspaper and magazine making.

The Department of English last year opened its course in commercial correspondence and the writing of advertising booklets to students in the Course in Journalism in order that they might have the advantages of this training which had hitherto been restricted to students in the Course in Commerce.

To familiarize students of journalism with newspapers of other countries and to aid them in keeping informed on present political, social, and economic conditions abroad, a course in the reading and the study of French newspapers was provided in co-operation with the Department of Romance Languages, and a similar course in German newspaper is being given for students of journalism by the German Department.

In the absence of a printing plant and of a daily newspaper under the control of the Department of Journalism, efforts have been made to give students as much practical training as possible in connection with the two Madison daily papers and the Daily Cardinal. Through co-operation with the editors of the Madison papers the department has been able to have students do reporting for these papers. The opportunities for this kind of work are necessarily limited and are not a satisfactory substitute for the practical training that could be given to all students of journalism under the direct supervision of instructors in the department, if a daily paper were published under the direction of the department.

NEEDS OF THE COURSE

1. The greatest need of the Course in Journalism, as is evident from the foregoing statements, is some means of giving students in the course adequate practical training and experience in the important details of newspaper writing and editing. Practically all of the other large state universities that have established courses in journalism have provided printing plants for their departments of journalism at which daily newspapers are published under the direction of the instructors. Since