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Announcing an "important innovation" in the educational program at Harvard, A. Chester Hanford '17, dean of the College, revealed last night that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has decided to grant credit toward a degree for conference courses in the study and reading of important authors under taken in any one of the undergraduate issues...
...first time in the history of the College that provision has been made for educational work under the supervision of the Master and the House Staff to be counted towards a Harvard degree. Formerly the educational contribution of the Houses, though substantial, has been on an informal basis, Dean Hanford pointed out, and has not counted directly for academic credit...
These conference courses given by the Houses Dean Hanford asserted would help to fill a gap in the accelerated program, and they should especially appeal to the undergraduates "as part of their distribution work by laying stress on important authors whose writings are regarded as of especial value in achieving the objectives of a liberal education...
...Students in this category should not be unduly concerned about not having been given a House assignment," said Dean Hanford in a statement yesterday, "for conditions this year will undoubtedly create vacancies which will accomodate most of this group before the opening of College in the fall...
...hasten acclimatization of the 500 Freshman who will enter the Houses in June, Hanford has proposed that the regular teaching staff of the House be utilized to serve as Freshman advisers. In addition to those would be added as many as needed instructors from elementary courses...