The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-16
GREATER LATITUDE
NEW PLAN TO BE CONSIDERED
nv WHITMAN COLLEGE STU
DENTS AND TEACHERS.
| United Amount of Work Will Be As
signed For All Courses-CommIt-
tee to Confer With Faculty.

Several important changes will be
made in the curriculum OF whitman
college next year. AT the faculty
meeting held at President PenrOSes
home on Saturday evening it was de-
cided not to offer the A.B. degree for
all courses at present but important
,hanges in the direction of freer cleo
tive system will be inaugurated with
the new year in all probability A
committee was appointed to look into
the matter and make definite recon-
mendatiOnS to the faculty on January
18th. The personnel of this commit
tee is President PenrOSe, and Profess
sOrs Anderson, BrOde, Cooper and Ly
man.
The committee has not fully decided
on it's recommendation These will be
worked out in detail during the Christ
mas vacation. But there will be great
ar latitude allowed in the courses lead
ing to each of the three degrees. In
order to allow for this extended cur
riculum it may be found necessary to
assign college classes to hours from
four to six p. III. and even on Saturday
mornings.
classes, however. will be continued as
at present. This change will be in
line with the practice of nearly all
the great colleges and universities of
the country. Harvard, Yale, Williams,
Columbia, ETC., all of which have
classes every day in the week but Sun
day. This will allow classes to be
scattered so that conflicts will be
avoided and a much larger variety of
courses can be offerd at Whitman than
ever before.
BY the new plan a limited amount
of required work will be assigned for
all courses and, besides this, three
years Of special work in one depart
ment will be required, the student to
select his own line of work This al
lows more room for the personal taste
Of the student in the matter of his
work and concentrate his energies on
that line of work. The required work
for all courses will be about half Of
the total work but will not all be taken
in the first two years unnecessarily.
Debating Tryout.
The try-out for the selection Of two
teams from Whitman academy in the
debates with Walla Walla high school
md Klickitat academy will be held
during the latter part of this week.
Only members of the four literary So
''ieties will be present at this try-out
The Athenaeum team consists of Per
"inger, Corpe, Morgan and the Phren-
nkosmian will be represented by
Johnson, Eells. Rudio and Howard.
The question to be discussed is. Re
al
states toward Panama and towards
he United States of Columbia is JUS
'ifiable." Otto Rupp, Professor Ander-
ON and Professor Ruby are judges on
he question. while Professors Lyman.
Hendrick and Coan will select the
7peakers to represent Whitman acad
nmy for the two teams. The debate is
>eing looked forward to with great In
terest as it decides the cad cham
,ionship for the year between the two
'Ocieties.
Greek Club.
The meeting of the Greek club yes
terday afternoon was an especially
brilliant one. Miss knepper of the Wal
n Walla high school and Otto B.
Rupp, Whitman alumnus, gave pa
Ders on Hellenic subjects.
Prohibition Society.
President Charles Robinson of the
Whitman college prohibition club Or
:~anized by Mr.. Millican of the Nation
al Prohibition league Monday after
noon, said in regard to the aims of the
club to a Statesman reporter this
morning: 1--WE are not a political or
ganization. We simply make the stand
that we are against the liquor traffic
We think that here in school is the
right place to attack the problem, and
although we do not do it in a political
way, we realize that in a score Of
towns in the west, recently, the issues