Two Department Heads Divulge Plans for Winter Reading Period

Plans for the application of the Reading Period in two departments of the University were divulged yesterday by the chairmen of the English and Philosophy departments in conferences with a CRIMSON representative. Professor J. S. P. Tatlock '96 and Associate Professor C. I. Lewis '05, discussed the measures taken by their respective departments to handle the Reading Period experiment.

Several striking contrasts between the methods of the two departments were revealed. Both departments will follow the general plan of terminating, at the beginning of the Reading Period, all lectures in courses not regularly open to Freshmen, but the elementary courses in English will continue to meet as before, while lectures will cease in the four elementary Philosophy courses, which will hold one or more section meetings each week at the discretion of the instructor.

Tatlock Would Break Tutorials

Protesting against the proposed cessation of tutorial conferences during the Reading Period, Professor Tatlock maintained that a more desirable method would be a cessation of tutorial work from the end of November to the beginning of the Reading Period, and resumption of tutorial conferences during the Reading Period.

While this proposal will not be put into effect in the English department this year, Professor Tatlock declared that the students would gain more from their reading if access to tutorial conferences was made possible. The cessation of tutorial work just prior to the reading period would afford both tutors and students a rest in preparation for the final study before mid-year examinations, as well as give the student additional time for study in the last section meetings of his course, Professor Tatlock believes.