| Show Semester Plan PIau Again gain Up For Consideration The question of whether or not the present quarter system stem will be replaced with the semester system will be voted upon at a special meeting on March 25 according to toa a decision made at the regular meeting of faculty members Mon Mon- day The semester plan was In operation operation operation opera opera- tion at Utah until the period of the World War Var when it was replaced by the quarter system here hero and and elsewhere as a war measure The main argument in defense of the plan at that time was that with a full summers summer's work of 12 weeks the academic year Tear divided itself equally and advantageously into four quarters Since the war a number of institutions institution's institutions institutions have shortened the summer session to six or eight weeks and have returned again to the semester semester semester semes semes- ter plan Instances of such changes include the University of California Califor Califor- nia the University of Missouri and the University of Texas Among the institutions that have retained the summer quarter and have continued on the quarter plan are the University of Colorado the University of Washington and the University of Minnesota The University of Utah is the only state university that has dropped dropped dropped drop drop- ped the 12 weeks' weeks summer session without returning to the semester plan I |
