Show G J that is their years of or study in harvard college Coll cg I 1 A FOIE OPPOSE IT 0 1 1 it will hal lake chaws la Is three dundred aa i 1 college in the hi united SUM bat jot will t 1 CT give the h doll a cli anfe a I 1 STANDA AD A A Cr Chro ciori ori okle service serviced 1 I 1 BOSTON june 2 aa ata important change la is proposed owed at harvard college r 1 1 e a w tuh ie is 0 O h attention I 1 1 on a and d p provoking vig w wide ida discussion I 1 it t I 1 la proposed arp ed to make a r reduction of oi I 1 t the he college course to three b 3 yeara rears and f the measure bai has now in a slightly 1 I modified form based the faculty the alra academy demy council and corporation and only ly awaits the concurrence 0 of I 1 tile I 1 I 1 bo board ard of overseer overee eie a to beu bec me a statute thie this step will arouse critic critical attention by all pers cirs interested in education 1 1 it affect with deep conc A rn rot the governing beardi of other I 1 colleg collee e sinco if a boy cau can get his I 1 define degre 1 I bachelor of arta arts in three years at harvard he will not be likely to spend time at any other college col leae leze it I 1 11 wilbir will alir up on and provi ke no not t a lit lutle a alonz eom some of the more conservative harvard Ilir vard alu luina trini and it will constitute the main issue in their election of over I 1 moers to fill the plezent pre ent vacancies it will not want for advocates on I 1 one hand while A hile on the other it 11 ill excite the protest prote etto of ite its conservative opponents final altion action has not yet been taken by the overseers overee ere ers and I 1 probably will nt root he taken before au I 1 dumn the chief reason for the proposed I 1 d change is is of course that college I 1 f men now get got at their active ark in 10 life too lite late A compromise measure il between the confers alicea and radicals was finally devised devi eed which I 1 after considerable deba a and some emphatic ephal ic op obtained a ma I 1 anty ty vote of of be fa feul cully y and that ie is I 1 theo the one now awaiting aelion in the board of overseers it isa ie a reduction I 1 of the number of cournea loette aJ of a reduction of time under its provisions provie iona a man will receive hia his degree when hen be bag has passed parsed 1 sixteen courmon co the present requirements w being slightly above eighteen and if by reason of halt ball courses I 1 ie a finishes binl thee in the middle of the year ha he 1 w will ill receive h a degres and depart forthwith A would continue to take tour fout and perhaps he five aa yeara but for a large monty majority the proposed reduction would be practically call V a 1 I reduction to three years I 1 toe president elect thought it wae was 1 right for the matter to be discussed die cussed in int public aud expressed hia his I 1 is opinions OP inions yea yes he eaid 1 I believe in it thoroughly thO TOUghly the age at which students etu dente now enter upon their professional fess ional life is too high men ilea can now itis true do the course in three years but they are exceptional anil ail I 1 the difficulty la is great they hae have to take eix six courses a year tuat is mora more than the average man do the average has been stead steadily dir increasing and in the schools the term has been lengthened when I 1 became president of the law school the conree conroe was only eighteen months now no it is 19 three I 1 years I 1 do not think this ought to I 1 be shortened the preparatory schools can if i they mill will save at least a year from the academic ca dermi course I 1 what do you think of the tho objection 11 that such a step would rein rain many of the other callages col leee lages by taking 1 awaya wa y a years yearB revenue from them that bould not be the case 1 there is dot not a college in the country so dependent on it its tuition fees ae as harvard Ha rard if we can stand it they I 1 I 1 can probes or N S is is an ardent opponent 0 of ahe emet and regards 1 it as extremely ex unwise here in I 1 four our mon months I 1 t I 1 18 says he our active debate has been mainly confined to that time an aal I 1 without a nord word of die dim I 1 casion the governing boardl of I 1 harvard the precedents of I 1 derais ye are overturned and bueb acthia jeamme reema ome precipitate erwi think what the eff ct W will I 1 b ba on oil muro more than colleges in the country they must re reduce luce their terms likewise 16 a and mady of them cannot stand I 1 i it take iff a years revenue from many of tho th c gieges lieges and it will ill ruin them and WOM than that however I 1 it t wi vi i 1 take olf 1 a ear of culture it is a blow to the tile higher educational I 1 interest of the tile country |