SWARTHMORE HEAD APPROVES OF PRE-EXAMINATION RESPITE

Swarthmore, Penn., March 3--Frank Aydelotte, President of Swarthmore College, today commented as follows upon Harvard's latest experiment in education, the pre-examination respite:

"I have long felt that American students attend too many lectures and classes and do too little work on their own account. The new Harvard plan seems to me a courageous effort to improve the curriculum in this respect. Its success will depend entirely upon the undergraduates.

"It is frequently urged that American students are too immature to make good use of more freedom. Our experience at Swarthmore proves that the best students worked better with much less class instruction. The whole country will watch the results of the Harvard plan as applied to the entire student body. The test will be whether it brings Harvard men up to their examinations better prepared in their various subjects than they are at present."