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University of Chicago will award a bachelor's degree after two years of college. So announced Chicago's bold young President Robert Maynard Hutchins last week. It was one of the most revolutionary moves in U.S. collegiate history, for the B.A. has stood for a four-year college education ever since the first class graduated from Harvard...
President Hutchins urged junior colleges to give a bachelor's degree to their graduates, announced that other universities had indicated they would follow Chicago's example. Chicago's program, he observed, will resemble that of British public schools like Rugby, which weeds out mediocre students, sends only 8% of its graduates on to Oxford and Cambridge...
Said Hutchins: "General education can easily be completed by the end of the sophomore year. . . . But the junior and senior years ... are crowded with mediocre students who go on to the bachelor's degree because that is the only recognizable reward that college offers. ..." Under Chicago's new plan "students who have no business continuing beyond sophomore year can leave with self-respect...
...other end of the bill, "Married Bachelor," is a B picture which pulled itself up to an A--in time to get the whole show into Group 1. Without any really startling touches this story of the happily married bookie, forced by "circumstances" to pose as the author of that unbelievable best-seller, "A Bachelor Looks at Marriage," proves sound enough in all departments to provide an amusing introduction for the thrills to follow. While the hardly insignificant talent and figure of Ruth Hussey make the picture something more than time filler...
...present cards also include a question as to the probable time at which students will complete their work for the Bachelor's degree. This will supply the Office with important information about the extent to which undergraduates expect to enter accelerated programs...