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Page the zeal and devotion of the present staff are supplemented with tangible, substantial support in greater quantity than has been provided in the past."
The report notes that the Kendall School (the "lower" school and high school division of Gallaudet) excluded black children;
that faculty with M.A.'s from Gallaudet had been granted higher rank than those who held Ph.D.'s from other institutions that the school had no clear tenure policy, no director of admissions, and no institutional statutes or faculty handbook and that the professional and clerical staff were insufficient.
More specifically, the report states that
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the multifarious teaching duties of the staff at Gallaudet are amazingand indefensible;
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the practice of teaching in more than one subject-matter field generally prevails;
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the Professor of Chemistry . . . also functions as stockroom clerk, custodian of supplies, etc.;
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a wider choice of courses is essential;
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[the language program lacks adequate communications equipment;
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in Physics the equipment seems to be generally inferior, and the tendency is to regard Physics as a sort of
Mathematics and to treat it as such;
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[Social Studies seems to be a hodgepodge with many unrelated courses in diverse areas so far afield as
Contemporary Affairs, Logic, Business Law, Comparative Religion, and Dramatics;
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office space is either totally lacking or inadequate (the Dean of Men interviews students at his home, for instance);
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[the library is inadequate in the quantity and quality of its references and general texts and it is obviously inadequate in space;
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the fifth-year program designed as a graduate program for hearing persons to be trained as teachers of the deaf has a loosely constructed admission policyin the group that has been admitted for the school year 1952-53, the academic ability,
according to previous college training, ranges from a 1.0 grade point average to some of the teachers in the Kendall School without degrees

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