WHILE WE'RE YET YOUNG

Much has been written and more said about that most annoying of the University's pet rules and regulations, devised to poster students in general, land impractical students in particular, that bugaboo of bugaboos, the Science requirement.

The usual tone of remarks on the subject has been a heated criticism of its mere presence, but all of the words and mouthings have apparently fallen on deaf or unrelenting ears. All efforts have gone in vain and little trouble has been expended in remedying a situation that is annoying to many.

There seems to be only one course left to take. The presence of a science requirement must at last be recognized as a fixture and remedies found to alleviate the existing pestilence. And to those who have been allowed or forced to drift along through three years of college with the torment of the science requirement hanging over their procrastinating heads the solution is clear. It is briefly that the same rule that applies to languages, however objectionable lit may sound at first, be installed in regard to science. Students should required, if there must be a science requirement, to get it out of the way before the end of their Sophomore year.

The advantages of this system are obvious and manifold. It would allow the upperclassman to concentrate solely within his field. It would remove the annoying thought that after all these years the upperclassman must again putter around with testtubes and retorts, with scalpel and tweezers. It would aid materially in transforming the punctilious prep school student to the tutorial student of the college. It would relieve Seniors of the bother some thought that on some sultry day in June on some beautiful blue summer's day, he must sit down and cudgel his brain for the name of that last minute item in a frog's leg.

Seniors, after being more or less exposed to the influence of the tutorial system for three years are more than loath to take up once more the assigned application of a science course. Few indeed there are who have been lax enough to let it slide until then, but those few who have done so, would, at this time in their college career, shout hosannas if they had been required to pass off the requirement when their minds were still freshly imbued with prep school parlance.