New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-29
CHANGES AT AMHERST
Trustees Outline Plan-To Drop
B. S. Decree.

Amherst, Mass. June 2s-Bs chelors de-
erees were conferred uron ninety seven
Amherst College seniors at the nineteen
annual commencement exercises to-day
The president and trustees Of Amherst.
II, response 10 the memorial If the class
of IS. asking that the college adopt
modified classical course. abolish the de-
gree Of bachelor Of Science. raise profes-
sors' salaries. limit numbers. etc. an
nounced that after three years the degree
Of Bachelor of Science will be abolished and
that only the degree 81 Bachelor Of Art
will he given. but the science required for
this degree will he doubled. two years In
stead of one. Four years Of Latin will he
required ~ al IN entrance and IN college
two wears Of ancient languages A reading
knowledge az sight of German and Ro-
nance tongue viii be required In future
| before graduation. save where Greek is
taken and then only one If them third
| OF the course Is required and two thirds
! will he elective. hut on the group system.
| II ie deemed desirable to maintain the
| number I'm college at about five hundred
| and recitation classes will be small, In FIVE
courses ont Of six under thirty
| Outside activities in college. dramatlcs.
music. literary publications. intercollegiate
debates and oratorical contests are held of
great cultural value and will he regulated
SO a. to interest every student in them
| and rrevent any from OVERRIDING With rig
orous requirements for scholarship. The
minimum for graduation has been raised
| fron- 81 To % In athletics the entire col
lsee is T. he drawn IN instead of a few.
I
/ derto a~e already on competitive teams
| In ten years siNl0n has been raised 10
| advance professors salaries. and sfoonoH
more Is now ~ he added 10 the endowment
Of the college for the purpose Of adding To
these salaries through gifts announced at
| the commencement to-day. Teaching
rather than research will he sought To
encourage the study Of Greek the college
proposes 70 have in residence each year
for part Of semester Greek scholar Of
the first rank. who will deliver course Of
lectures and will. in addition. carry on
special work in teaching The first in
cumhent under this plan will be Gilbert
Murray. reeius professor Of Greek in Oxford
University who will visit the college next
spring
The commencement speakers to-day were
George Drummer Parks. Of Brooklyn Fred
erick j. Pohl Of Brooklyn Laurens Hickok
Seelye. OF Wooster, Ohio. George Noyes
Slayton, Of MoTrisville. VI, and Waldo
Shumway. OF Brooklyn President George
Harris conferred honorary degrees as fol
lows
NJ ster Of Arts-Paul Underwood Kellogg
Pitt burg
Doctor OF Divinity Frederick Ernest En-
rich. secretary Of the Massachusetts Home
Missionary Society. Boston.
Doctor of Laws-Henry Stockbridge of
Baltimore. Judge of the Court of Appeals
of MARYLAND; Isaac Newton Mills. Of Mount
Vernon, y. Y, Justice of the Supreme
! Court Of New York. Walter Wyman, Of
| Washington, surgeon general Of the United
states Puhl- Health and Marine Hospital
| service.
Al the alumni dinner tho postmaster
was Edward II. Fallows. and President
Harris, Starr j Murphy and Daniel f.
Kellogg spoke