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CHANGES In CURRICULUM
EXPLAINED BY MEME ERS OF YALE
FACULTY..

EXPLAINED BY MENU RS OF YALE
FACULTY..
Now Possible for an Undergraduate to
Finish Course In Three Years-Presi-
dent HadIey Says Changes Are u Con-
tinuation of Plan Worked Up for Two
Years-Present and Proposed scheme
OfCOurses Compared.
BY far the most important and radl-
cal changes of those made by the yale
corporation at their session Wednes-
day were those relating to curriculum
changes. The fact that required work
at Yale is now limited to freshman
year Is of course, the keystone OF the
changes. University leaders were seen
yesterday, and asked to discuss the
changes.
President Hadley was dislnclined to
discuss them at length owing to the
fact that the annual prospectus OF cleo
tive and required studies for next year
is now in the hands of the faculty,
which has not completed it's plans in de-
tail for the courses, and so extended
comment is impossible at present. Pres
ident Hadley said, however, in speaking
of the general ehanges:
1.-THE changes made were not radical
and sudden. All were along the lines
marked out last year. They were
changes of degree. not of kind. In
sophomore year one or two electives
We're added to the list which were al
lowed the student last year. Fresh
man year was not changed. The drop
ping of one study in junior year was
all that remained from required work
in that year. All the changes were
continuation of the plan the faculty has
worked up for two years"
Arson Phelps Stokes, jr., secretary Of
the university, said in discussing the
changes:
1T does not seem to me that as many
students will take advantage of the
scheme made possible by the plan
adopted by the corporation and will
choose to finish their college course in
three years, as will take advantage of
the plan to take enough studies in their
Z Junior and senior years to count year
of their professional school course"
A member of the Yale faculty fully as
well qualified to talk on the proposed
changes as any, is Professor j. c.
Schwab, who has had in charge many
of the details of the faculty plan sub
mitted to the corporation, and unani-
mously ratified. Professor SchWab
said:
"Three things were specifically done
by the corporation in changing the Yale
college curriculum. In the first place
mental philosophy, the last of the re-
quired subjects for juniors and for SEN
Tors, was dropped and the two upper
years of the college course were left
absolutely free for optional work
I'm the second place it was made pos
sible for an under graduate to finish his
course in college in three years. This
possibility will be made dependent upon
two things, first, the good preparation
of the student, and secondly his appll- \
cation to study and, perhaps, the fact
that he does some work during his sum-
mer vacation, as for instance, studying
enough to take off course or two by
his summer work.
"The third feature of the curriculum
changes was that sophomore year has
been opened up to a greater degree for I
elective courses. Mental philosophy
was added to the list of several option
ais which were allotted last year for So
phomores.
ut was decided definitely not to touch |
the courses in freshman year at present
This will be left for the future Further
announcements of the change than this
cannot be made till the annual prospec-
tus appears next month";
Professor Bernadotte Perrin who has |
been active in the general movement to
change the curriculum, said in speaking
of the movement:
II feel that the changes are COM !
mendable because they have come grad
ually, not in crash and not with sud-
denness. Every change which has been
made has been the result of long dis
cussion and elaboration. There has
been nothing hasty in the action of the
faculty making the changes"
An interesting parallel Of the scheme
Of curriculum studies now in existence
and that proposed and adopted was
submitted TO the corporation by the
faculty. 1t is as follows:
PRESENT SCHEME.
Freshman-Required: Five courses,
three hours each, in Latin, A; Greek,
A; French A Cor B, Gone hour); Ger
man, A Cor b, Gone hour); English, A;
A.
Sophomore-15 hours Five courses
out of ten, three hours each; Latin B;
Greek, B; French, A, B or C; German,
A, B or c; English, B; mathematics,
B 1; mathematics, B II; physics, A
chemistry A; history, A.
Junior-Required: Psychology, etc.,
three hours; - hours elective
PROPOSED SCHEME.
Freshman-The same as at present.
Sophomore-15. Is hours. Otherwise
the same as at present, except that
mental and moral science A I and A il
are added to the course to be chosen
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