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U FACULTY I I SPLITS ON STUDIES Professors at Variance Valiance on Major and Minor System TWO REPOTS ARE MADE Both Buth Sides State Views on Que Question Which Conies to ii 1 Issue lc at mit Meeting Today I 1 At Al Its meeting this Ibis afternoon the time faculty of time the University o of Utah Ulah wilt will pass puss upon what are probably the thc mo most t Important matters mailers that lint have been brought before It for fOl a long Jong time TIme The pl problems lems are twofold There Is the tue question queston o of whether or not the university will iii wi adopt the system of or majors major and anti minors that is so o 0 popular popular lar lam In several of the eastern universities ties Les and also tIme the proposition of or ma- ma changing the entrance re requirements requirements re- re to lo the preparatory school As time the committees that have o ha reported both holl of the these e matters have submitted both majority and minority reports the debate which will wi arise before they timey are finally disposed of oC promises to be c er Very exciting As both matters mailers Involve In radical changes the the action of the time faculty Is being watched closely b by time all al mountain Inter the time er universities lles region and colleges in Proposed ee Cla Changes I C Time The Th matter which will come conic up for first Ir t consideration Is the time proposition of or accepting time the major and amid minor system At t present mt the colle college col col- le lege e students are arc practically free Clee to select an any aimy subjects that they desire to study The rue result resul has been een that a a great reat man many litany have ha e spent almost their entire Im time line on one omme line lne of or worl In other othel cases the time leverse erse re Is true 1 Many an have so o scattered d their thel studies that when they left the university the they took tooka tooka a a smattering of everything e but not enough of or any an one subject to be proficient pro pro- nough in it it This state of affairs the time professors ors agree Is un undesirable rabie but just lust how to avoid oid a It I i is the question queston of that is puzzling them A A study other othel universities uni has been made and ane although tIme the t fame sanie me condition was ivas round found in Iii many yet In a few Cew where the time major maJol and minor system was used a better con condition was vas found Cound A consisting of or ProCessors sois sors William ilam Roylance George Coray Cory Fred Fret W. W Reynolds Milton Iton Bennion and Nathan D. D Porter was appointed to Investigate in estgate the he matter mater The committee com corn could not a agree ree upon findings and a majority report which Professors som Ol sors i Cor Corny Coray Bennion and ane Porter signed advocates the lie adoption of ot the major and minor s system while u a minority report signed by Professors Reynolds and amid Roylance favors the the retention of the time present s system tem Majority View leti The lime majority report gives hes the following fol oh- oh lowing 10 studies teles from which the tho college collegeman man must not later than bait his junior year select one subject as a a. major in which ho must do t twenty wenty-to ui l hours lioums Us U's o of college work and VAn lUj-VAn li nors nOI in iii each cacti of which he Iy r required to lo tb do at least twelve J i h hof of work history I if 1 l male lc Oli l Greek Latin German tl ph physics biology amid philosophY Professor George Coray ho is chairman chalman of the time general committee and a mcm member el of time the majority ex explained e- e the tIme matter mateI as follows The Time college course is primarily a n culture COUSO course and amid ant con consequently the tIme guarantee of culture should be c given ghen the student when he lie begins begIns his work By lh a u student we ne c mean to make intake him him a adaptable le to time the progressive conditions of or his environ hon cl ment mont His Ills cl environment Jias ha to do with five things mailer energy encl'S life fe mind and as o owe we have hac suggested suggested a n system sem that Is based busee upon environment as broadly ly stated There is iN prescribed chemistry which deals with wih matter mater physics h which Is the study o of energy biolo biology y life psychology PS- PS mind and amid the time social s sciences I which concern themselves es with ones one's associations student will do doal doall doall Now ow tIme the tl ordinal ordinary wi all al but ut about a year of this prescribed ed work in Iii high school so that besides work while In iii college the tho prescribed he hue will wi have twelve hoUs hoU's hours to dispose e of to his hl likings This leaves laves him vcr very free freo and amid besides guarantees him hima a a broad and amid thorough education Position of Minority I Prore Professor ol Fred Freih W. W who signs the time minority report stated his reasons as follows The Time minority agree that present conditions mire are not nol all al that th the y might be he but we do not feel that the time s u m 0 proposed will wi remedy the time evil evil In hi time the JI first t place time the list of subjects subJect that the majority wish Avish to have ac accepted ar- ar cc as desirable hIe tot for the lie selection of or majors and amid minors Is incomplete Geology French and a thousand other oth othi- er cm important su subjects are not even en mentioned In fact the ra range mango o of knon kno knowledge ledge hedge I is so broad that It would be 10 an aim Impossibility ih to get a complete list Again th the lie desired desil end ene would not o l-o accomplished One Omme of the Lime great r at atel l e evils evil today i is that the student frequently fre fre- devotes dc his time into to lo a a too loo narrow nar umar- row mow ran range c of If It he ito is left to select elect his own majors major and minors hi iii II would do the time same samo timIng thing A student student stu- stu dent who whose o major Is Latin would undoubtedly un un- select as his minors two other othel languages e 1 say French and and German Ger Gem man which arc are closely connected wIth whIm his major We e think that the best est rC results arc ame aO obtained when a man Is left heft unrestricted ed cd and ane permitted to timid find out what he can caum It I might be e Avell wel to establish a a consulting board whose duty duly would be he belo beto heto to lo con consult with the lie various students as asto lo tu their courses The Time other question queston that of fixing tIme the entrance requirements to tho the preparatory pre school which in reality realy is cutting off the first year ear of tho the normal lor- lor nor mal course and the time second year yeal of ot the thc preparatory school depends so much upon time the action acton of the time legislative legisla legisla- tive commission lon that It is probable it will till wi bo ho loft heft upon the timo table for or a short shOt time longer But Dut whether this thiN question Is discussed dis dis- cussed or ci not the time other othe one will trill wI pro probably probably ably be he decided today |