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Over $3,190 have been collected by the Student Council in its ten week drive to pay for the management of student activities in the three-term year. Door-to-door collection of registration day pledges have added $1,236 to the first week's receipts...
...decision not to speed up the Law School's program, via the three-term route, was arrived at after a study of the particular problems of the law student. Since the students remaining are mostly non-draftable, Edmund M. Morgan, Royall Professor of Law, and acting dean of the Law School, explained that there wouldn't be much sense in speeding then up. Also, with an eye to returning students after the war, he pointed out that the Law School's term system is constructed so that a student can drop out at any time, and return not having irretrovisbly...
There is, furthermore, no justification for believing that the three-term calendar will cease with the termination of the war. A student has every advantage to gain from its continuance, since, if he is allowed to choose his program, he may select a normal four year course or an acceleration, the symmetrical three term year represents a working answer to the problem of a completely flexible post-war educational system...
...Just as the spring vacation had to yield to the necessity of completing as much as possible of the present semester before the beginning of the Army program in May, so the demands of the armed forces have made a three term year imperative. Faced with the prospect of teaching College, Summer School, a four-term Army school, and a three-term Navy School with the same faculty, now depleted by 30 percent, the College had to strike at its least useful branch. Closer integration of faculty as signment, of College planning and administration will result from the abolition...
...close vote, nevertheless leaves the undergraduate voiceless in a question of grave concern to the value of their educations. The faculty now holds the right and duty of making the eventual decisions, but the airing by students of their needs and desires is imperative. "Three-term" versus "Summer Session" must be debated and decisions formulated. An academic year which neglects the student outlook is foredoomed to failure...