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January 22--University announces that it will not go on a three-term schedule...
...making the announcement, the seven college heads emphasized that the United States is not engaged in a global war nor committed to total mobilization. They agreed that the three-term schedule is undesirable from the point of view of both students and faculty, and is justified only under war conditions...
Students who want to graduate in three years can do it by taking five courses instead of four and attending one summer school session. Therefore the University feels that there is no need to introduce the three-term schedule, which, according to Provost Buck, lowers academic standards by forcing professors to give courses three times a year...
Discussing objections to the three-term college, such as existed during the war, the Provost said that academic standard are lowered if the professor has to deliver a course three times a year...
...League colleges have yet made recommendations for a return to a wartime three-term acceleration program. Both Princeton and Dartmouth, however, are considering reinstituting summer sessions for their students. Yale is considering acceleration or expanding its summer school. Last week the Williams College faculty voted to have a summer session...