Show 1 E are inclined to agree with W Dean Smith of the faculty of arts and science at Harvard in L his belief th that the next advance in inv ina int L a L' L t v collegiate education will be a shortening of the undergraduate course II The four years course II as he remarks II became the traditional traditional tra traditional tra- tra American college course owing to the inadequacy of the preparatory training some two centuries ago Then again the question of a three years course is not now as it was even thirty years ago the question question question ques ques- tion of turning the student away at the end of three years with no place to go for further study II The college student has long since come to look upon his bachelors bachelor's degree as marking off but one in a series of steps leading leading leading lead lead- ing to the goal of a liberal tion It is simply to serve as a I certificate of admission to the graduate school or to an apprenticeship apprenticeship apprenticeship of some years in the business business business busi busi- ness or technical school Alread Already he has served his eight or more years in the elementary school his three years in the preparatory or high school his four years in inthe inthe inthe the college and now if he decides to enter some profession two three and in man many many cases four more y years ars of his time are required required required re re- for additional preparation Thus it has cost the candidate for scholastic and professional honors nearly a score of his possible three threescore threescore score and ten years to reach from the practical point of view the place of be beginning But more than this if his work of prEparation preparation preparation tion has been continuous it may have cost him an otherwise natural natural natural na na- tural adjustment to the ultra- ultra world If on the theother theother other hand his long period of has been crossed here and there by the wider experience his world fitness may have been preserved but his attaining the crown of a liberal education has been delayed until it it has lost much of its significance In our opinion this latter misfortune is much less to be regretted than the former but in either case the abridgment of the colle college e course would tend to modify the result But when the shortening of the college term comes and we believe believe believe be be- lieve with Professor Smith that it will come there should be kept in 1 mind the fact fact that it is quantity n not t quality that is to be reduced m. m p d i |