ENGLISH 6 GOES WAY OF ALL SNAP COURSES

With the purpose of unifying and rendering more complete the offerings for 1924-25 in the English Department, several marked changes are included in the new provisional elective pamphlet for next year. These revisions include the abolition of "snap", composition courses and the alteration of the instruction in English literature so that there will be a course to cover every period from Anglo-Saxon times up to the present day.

English 6 is the most notable absentee in the new pamphlet. In the few years during which it has been offered, this course has proved increasingly popular with men unable to gain, admittance to higher courses, and especially with men who want an easy course. Next year there will be no composition facilities other than English A and D for men who show no literary ability. This change has been brought about with the belief that the average "C" man gains nothing from such a course.

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English 31 and English 22 will be made parallel courses. For admission to either of them, a student must have anticipated English A with a grade of A or B, or have attained a grade of A or B in English A or D. It is open also to other men in the first three groups of the Rank List who convince the instructor that they have adequate literary ability, and to other students who have show marked literary ability. In discussing the last provision Professor J. L. Lowes G. '03, newly appointed Chairman of the Department, explained that it is for the benefit of the CRIMSON, Advocate, and Lampoon editors.

There are several other omissions and changes in the public speaking courses, but the literature courses present more striking differences. An almost perfect chronological order will be followed in the arrangement of the course list. Quite apart from the numerous shifts of instructors, the courses have been changed, dropped and added systematically with the result that there is no break in the continuity of the entire field in the group intended for both undergraduates and graduates. A great many of the courses that are consistently bracketed will be dropped for good. There are four new courses in the graduate's group, but none in the middle group. The changes there have been brought about by bringing two courses down from the graduates' group, by combining two half courses, and by filling in a gap by the use of two half courses in Comparative Literature.