REQUIREMENTS FOR DIVISIONALS EASED

Another step toward smoothing the path of students leaving to join the armed services was taken yesterday when the Faculty approved an Administrative Board proposal to ease requisites for the General Examinations.

Anticipating that a large number of undergraduates who had planned on graduating in June would enter the service at mid-years, the Board has made it possible for students to take the generals although still lacking two courses for his degree.

No Provision for Degree

The new arrangement makes no provision for giving these students a degree unless they complete their course requirements. Officials declared its purpose to be rather to ease the re-adaption of students returning to College after the war by eliminating re-preparation for the general exams.

To insure the retention of current standards, the new allowance will apply only to undergraduates who have completed their concentration, are dotutorial under Plan A for three of his minimum six resident terms, and have been on the Dean's List for two of their last three terms before mid-years. Recommendation by the department and a special petition to the Administrative Board are necessary.

May--Not Repeat

No student will be given permission in the spring to repeat a general examination which he has failed to pass at mid-years. This restriction applies even if a student finds, after taking the mid-year exams, that he will be able to remain in College until June.

Up till now the regulations provided that a student could only take his generals without completing his course if his deficit was no more than one course. The Plan A tutorial requirement of the new arrangement will include all men in Economics, English, Classics, and German, and many in such fields as Government and Biology.

It is expected to achieve its purpose of making the return to College after the war more inviting by avoiding review of concentration subjects for the generals and by making a degree available to those men after one more term's work.