Going the Whole Hog

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To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

I cannot agree with your attitude that the recent reduction of course requirements from 16 to 15 was a major triumph, a signal achievement. For the reduction to have attained any considerable significance it would need to have been more drastic, from 16 to 12. Classes during the first three years of college may be required with justice, the first year for distribution, the second and third for concentration. Beyond that, there might be no requirements is courses, only a thorough and comprehensive examination--for which a candidate could submit himself whenever in his own estimation he was fully prepared. Such a reduction would eliminate the distraction of compulsory courses in the senior year, and would promote the ideal of self-education: knowledge acquired and mastery attained rather than courses attended. Frederick Thon '31.