CONCENTRATION REVISION

Revision of the Concentration System as planned at the recent meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is a welcome sign that the University is meeting a problem that has long deserved attention. Though the Faculty's recommendations seem vague at certain points-such as, for example, the proposed "special plans of study" to be allowed individual students by the new Committee they are naturally experimental, and can only be clarified through practice.

Yearly many students are doubtful as to which of several fields of study they are most fitted for-which they are most interested in, and in which they will achieve the best results-, and if the new plan succeeds in assisting these, it will have justified its own creation. Moreover, the eighty per cent quota for each department, not to be exceeded except insofar as would not increase its annual expenses, may bring about savings in the Tutorial System that will obviate any radical alterations. Unquestionably savings will be made, since the single factor that in the past caused increasing outlays-appreciable changes in the number of students in divers fields-will have been removed. Such an economy is infinitely preferable to any one of the three recommended in the recent Report of the Overseers' Committee, appearing in installments in the CRIMSON.

In appointing Professor James B. Munn head of the new Committee on Concentration, the Faculty has selected a man in every respect qualified for so important a post. It is apparent that the Committee will concern itself primarily with individual problems, for an understanding of which Professor Munn has proved himself peculiarly gifted.