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Show BYU Will Adopt Semester System To improve scholarship and increase efficiency and economy of administration. BYU will break from what has occurred in the past." President Wilkinson pointed out that 58 per cent of BYU students stu-dents come from without the state of Utah and that in other states, notably California, there are already thousands of students stu-dents graduating at midyear. He thought there would be a marked trend in that direction in Utah in the future. change from the quarter system to the semester system, beginning begin-ning September 1960, it was announced an-nounced this week by President Ernest L. Wilkinson. This decision is the result of the unanimous recommendation of the Utah Conference on Higher High-er Education composed of the faculties of all universities and colleges in the state, urging that administrators and governing boards in Utah's institutions of higher learning give serious consideration con-sideration to adopting the semester semes-ter system." According to President Wilkinson Wilkin-son the decision of the BYU was motivated also by a desire to have a more realistic relationship relation-ship with high schools, all of whom operate on a semester system. With the current emphasis em-phasis on advancement for the talented student, more and more of them will be graduating at mid-year. Under the new plan they will enter the BYU immediately immedi-ately upon graduation rather than be required to wait until the opening of spring or some later quarter. "We have a feeling at BYU that in the interest of encouraging high school students to go on to college, we ought to make the transition as easy as possible, and that there should be more cooperation between high school and college programs and high school and college administrators administra-tors than there has been. College training should be merely a continuance of the learning process, pro-cess, not a sharp identifiable |