Lecturing Standards

Sir, — Your correspondent who, in the last issue of "Salient" drew attention to the fact that the standard of much of the lecturing at this University leaves much to be desired, has hit the nail right on the head. I quote: "Students at the start of a difficult course in one particular faculty of this university (obviously the Economics Department) have had a gruelling time this year in establishing a firm basis for their studies." Your correspondent never made a truer statement.

Many students nourish the same sentiments about a certain individual who hails from the History Department. (There are at least two lecturers there who need a bomb stuck under them.) This lecturer strides into the room in a most businesslike fashion, and then proceeds to drone on, and on, and on, for almost an hour; many of us who must sit through this misery draw more historical enthusiasm from the backends of our pens.

One of the junior lecturers in Law, recently circulated among the students, copies of a model judgment he had prepared in answer to one of his own questions. We would like to know if he finds it satisfactory to exceed his own two-page limit by 7 pages and why he insists on marking only the first two pages of our efforts. "Since brevity is the soul of wit," you can imagine what his lectures are like: we're not Tort much.

R. Williams.