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Most of the discussion in these early faculty meetings was spent on student petitions. Those readers who have served on faculties will appreciate action taken in the meeting of October 12, 1915, with President Brooks in the Chair. “On motion Dean was authorized to appoint a permanent committee to consider all petitions and report at each regular meeting.” Another interesting piece of business was the following: “The Dean was authorized to appoint a committee to consider means of publicity of the College of Engineering.” Incidentally, the petition committee idea apparently did not work for long. Within a year, petitions were again being presented for approval. Another issue which still periodically comes before the faculty was being debated at the meeting of March 9, 1915. "On motion the following regulation was adopted: No withdrawal may be obtained by any student not making a passing grade in the subject from which the withdrawal is requested." The last minutes in the record book were for the proceedings of November 14, 1916. Minutes from subsequent faculty meetings have been lost for years 19171927. Bound volumes of typewritten minutes appeared beginning October 1928. In the 1918-19 Catalog, the role of the faculty in working with students was published as follows: Faculty advisers assigned to each student. The relation of the adviser to the student is, as far as possible, that of a friendly counselor, ready at all times to assist by encouragement, advice or warning to the end that the student may be directed along lines of high ideals in scholarship and right living. The advisor receives monthly reports from each student’s instructors and in case these reports show diminishing quality of work or excessive absences, the advisor summons the student for consultation.
In February 1914, Mr. Alex W. McCoy arrived from the University of Missouri as an instructor in Geology. Although he served only one year as a faculty member, he brought to the University the The headline read, “Sons of Old great tradition of Saint Patrick. The Erin Honor Patron Saint.” Engineers’ Club elected Jim Bennett (BSCE 1915), the first of a long line of St. Pats. Jim was president of the club and led in the organization of the first Engineers’ St. Pat’s celebrations. On Tuesday, March 10, 1914, the OU student newspaper, The University Oklahoman, carried a front page notice, “Engineers Plan to Celebrate March 17, May Paint the Campus Green. A meeting