Faculty Office Research Articles

Simultaneous Talking in Conversation and Sex of Speakers

Simultaneous talking in group discussion was observed in three settings, a high school discussion group, a university faculty office, and the cafeteria of a university student union. Each instance of a listener's talking before a speaker had finished was classified as in agreement with the speaker, in disagreement with the speaker, or as irrelevant to the speaker's statement. Simultaneous talking occurred on about 19% of all utterances. Listeners were more likely to talk simultaneously when the speaker was a woman, and men much more likely to talk when a woman was speaking. Female listeners were more likely to show agreement with male speakers, while both men and women were more likely to show disagreement with female speakers. It was concluded that an analysis of types of simultaneous talking may provide a useful index of dominance.

Personal space in the faculty office: Desk placement and the student-faculty interaction.

Personal space in the faculty office: Desk placement and the student-faculty interaction.

Personal space in the faculty office: Desk placement and the student-faculty interaction.

Personal space in the faculty office: Desk placement and the student-faculty interaction.

Student evaluation using lists of descriptive statements

The development of an evaluation system is discussed that uses a list of statements describing particular aspects of the student's work in a course. The instructor marks those statements which are applicable to the student's performance. The statement lists are read by an optical scanner and stored in a computer. When required, the computer produces a listing of the statements chosen. The system is intended to be more precise than letter grades, to be easier to handle (for both instructor and registrar) than evaluative paragraphs, and to guide the instructor in making an evaluation. The system has been implemented on an experimental basis for two years, and reactions have been obtained from students, faculty, and graduate and professional school admission officers.

Faculty Office Registers, 1534-1549. A Calendar of the First Two Registers of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Faculty Office.

Faculty Office Registers, 1534-1549. A Calendar of the First Two Registers of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Faculty Office.

Reviews

Book Reviews in This Article:F. R. H. du Boulay. The Lordship of Canterbury. An Essay on Medieval Society.Elspeth M. Veale. The English Fur Trade in the Later Middle Ages. Faculty Office Registers, 1534‐1549. A Calendar of the first two Registers of the Archbishop of Canterbury s Faculty Office.A. J. Slavin. Politics and Profit: a study of Sir Ralph Sadler, 1507‐47.D. M. Livock (Ed.). City Chamberlains’ Accounts in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.A. M. Everitt. The Community of Kent and the Great Rebellion.Peter Laslett. The World We Have Lost.Lionel Munby. Hertfordshire Population Statistics.A. D. Francis. The Methuens and Portugal, 1691‐1708.D. F. McKenzie. The Cambridge University Press, 1696‐1712. A Bibliographical Study.Sir Francis Hill. Georgian Lincoln. Camden Miscellany.R. M. Barton. A History of the Cornish China‐Clay Industry.John Burnett. Plenty and Want. A Social History of Diet in England from 1815 to the Present Day.M. W. Flinn (Ed.). Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain, by Edwin Chadwick, 1842.E. J. Hobsbawm. Labouring Men. Studies in the History of Labour.Frank Whitson Fetter. Development of British Monetary Orthodoxy, 1797‐1875.J. M. Hussey (Ed.). The Cambridge Medieval History.Henry J. Cohn. The Government of the Rhine Palatinate in the Fifteenth Century.Carlo M. Cipolla. Guns and Sails in the Early Phase of European Expansion, 1400‐1700.Alain Dubois. Die Salzversorgung des Wallis, 1500‐1610. Wirtschaft und Politik.Z. Y. Hershlag. Introduction to the Economic History of the Middle East.Sunil Kumar Sen. Studies in Industrial Policy and Development of India.Frank H. H. King. Money and Monetary Policy in China, 1845‐1895.William W. Lockwood (Ed.). The State and Economic Enterprise in Japan.Eijiro Honjo. The Social and Economic History of Japan.UNITED STATES OF AMERICAStuart Bruchey. The Roots of American Economic Growth, 1607‐1861: An Essay in Social Causation.Daniel H. Calhoun. Professional Lives in America: Structure and Aspiration, 1750‐1850.Frederick G. Jensen. Capital Growth in Early America.Alice E. Smith. George Smith's Money.Albert Fishlow. American Railroads and the Transformation of the Ante Bellum Economy.Eugene D. Genovese. The Political Economy of Slavery, Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South.David T. Gilchrist and W. David Lewis (Eds.). Economic Change in the Civil War Era.Thomas J. Pressly and William H. Scofield (Eds.). Farm Real Estate Values in the United States by Counties, 1850‐1959.Thomas W. Gavett. Development of the Labor Movement in Milwaukee.Gabriel Kolko. Railroads and Regulation, 1877‐1916.J. D. B. De Bow. The Industrial Resources, Statistics, etc. of the United States.Thomas R. Brooks. Toil and Trouble: A History of American Labor.Harvey S. Perloff, Edgar S. Dunn, Jr, Eric E. Lampard, and Richard F. Muth. Regions, Resources, and Economic Growth.J. Van Fenstermaker. The Development of American Commercial Banking: 1782‐1837.Robert F. Durden. The Climax of Populism: The Election of 1896.Cedric B. Cowing. Populists, Plungers, and Progressives: A Social History of Stock and Commodity Speculation, 1890‐1936.Marshall R. Colberg. Human Capital in Southern Development, 1939‐1963.Joe S. Bain. International Differences in Industrial Structure: Eight Mations in the 1950's.Jacob Schmookler. Invention and Economic Growth.M. Da Pozzo and G. Felloni. La Borsa Valori di Genova nel secolo XIX.Valerio Castronovo. L'industria laniera in Piemonte nel secolo XIX.PERIODICAL LITERATURE, 1965

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Calligraphy and Palaeography: Essays Presented to Alfred Fairbank on his 70Th Birthday. Edited by A. S. Osley. London, Faber & Faber, 1965. xxiii + 287 pp., 48 pls., 68 line illustrations. 6 gns. The Later Lollards, 1414–1520. By J. A. F. Thomson. Oxford University Press, 1965 (Oxford Historical Series, Second Series). 272 pp. 42s. The Government of Florence Under the Medici (1434 TO 1494). By Nicolai Rubinstein. Oxford‐Warburg Studies, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1966. xiii + 336 pp. 80s. Faculty Office Registers 1534‐1549: A Calendar of the First Two Registers of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Faculty Office. Edited by D. S. Chambers. Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1966. lxv + 394 pp., 1 pl. £4. 10s. The Fire Court. Edited by Philip E. Jones. Vol. I. William Clowes & Sons Ltd. for the Corporation of London, 1966. xxi + 320 pp., 2 pls. 45s. Dictionary of Suffolk Arms. By Joan Corder. Suffolk Records Society, vol. VII. 1965. 266 pp. 30s. Household and Farm Inventories in Oxfordshire, 1550–1590. Edited by M. A. Havinden. Oxfordshire Record Society, Vol. 44 and H.M.C. Joint Publications, No. 10, H.M.S.O., 1965. viii + 365 pp. £5.

The Unpensioned Ex-religious in Tudor England

The first Register of the Faculty Office, in Lambeth Palace Library, is a document which throws much light upon those who left religion before 1538. These ex-religious were, in the main, unpensioned. Although the late E. H. W. Dunkin made an almost complete transcript of the register in 1890, these early records of the Court of the Faculties were at one time thought to be lost. So much has been written about the treatment of the ex-religious, their pensions and benefices, that only the appearance, or more correctly the re-appearance, of fresh evidence justifies further consideration of this subject. Views as to whether the ex-religious were well treated or ill treated have been widely expressed, and of those who applied for capacities in 1536, Professor Knowles has recently written ‘whatever the numbers concerned, they were certainly not very large, and as they were the first religious to appear in the market in search of employment they were probably absorbed without great difficulty’. Any material which increases our knowledge of the unpensioned religious should be brought before scholars for, as the late Geoffrey Baskerville wrote in 1937, ‘the after-careers of the religious who were dispersed in 1536 are more difficult to trace than those of their companions whose sense of vocation led them to accept transference to the larger monasteries, and who were eventually able to claim a pension.’

L. H. Elliott President of University of Maine

Dr. Lloyd Hartman Elliott was installed as the ninth president of the University of Maine in impressive and dignified academic ceremonies at Orono, October 24, 1958 before some 600 delegates from colleges, universities learned societies, educational associations, and foundations well over the Nation along with the faculty and administrative officers of the University. The undersigned represented the Entomological Society of America at the request of the Executive Secretary.

The Archbishop's faculty office

The Archbishop's faculty office

Our New Nurses' Residence

ideas because they involved additional |p-^ HIexpense and work for the hospital, the Ij_I^M architect, and the contractor. However, even the suggestion to cut new ^^^f doors did not stop the chairman of the _^^^f Building and Equipment Committee _^^f and our administrator from trying to _^f give us the kind of building that we _ desired. ^y On one of our trips through the w half-completed building, we realized that we could obtain a centrally located health area if a door could be cut between two rooms. One room could then be used as an office, the other as a bedroom for students who were not ill enough to require hospitalization. We sold the idea and the door was cut. An instructor suggested that the library would be more useful if it were located on the first floor instead of the ground floor. So we made another tour of the building, decided that with a few changes in doors it could be done, and we soon had the library in its new setting. A classroom and faculty office were interchanged at the suggestion of the education director. More laboratory tables were added to the chemistry laboratory when they neetings were requested by the science inTrustee structor. Special cabinets, built acnmittee. cording to the instructor's specificaId more tions, were added to the nursing arts Nurses at this hospital helped to plan a beautiful and homey place to live and an up-to-date school of nursing.

The Archbishop's Faculty office

The Archbishop's Faculty office