Committee Asks Better Prep-College Integration

A six man committee representing Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Andover, Lawrenceville, and Exeter, has prepared a system for integrating the last two years of secondary school and the first two of college, the CRIMSON learned yesterday."

The committee has submitted the findings for publication after a year of extensive research. It's report will be out sometime in December.

Although complete details of the suggested changes will not be released until publication, McGeorge Bundy, associate professor of Government and Harvard representative, disclosed the committee strongly felt many courses now taught in the first two years of college should be shifted to the secondary school level.

Advanced Mathematics

The report suggests, among other things, secondary schools teach more advanced math courses, carry on college level American history and elementary science courses, and give students a much more thorough grounding in languages than previously given.

In regard to this latter suggestion, the committee expressed the opinion that secondary schools should concentrate on teaching one language well instead of several languages in too short a period.

The report, which was made possible through a Ford Foundation Advancement in Education grant, includes many other detailed suggestions in addition to a general summary of the main problems of integration.

Many to Get Report

According to Alan R. Blackmer, instructor in English at Andover and chairman of the six-man committee, the report will be circulated to as many secondary schools and colleges as possible. "I am hopeful that our report will bring about some much needed educational changes, although I realize that any drastic alterations in our present system will have to come gradually," Blackmer said yesterday.

Other members of the committee in addition to Bundy and Blackmer are E. Harris Harbison, professor of History at Princeton, Charles Seymore, Jr., associate professor of the History of Art at Yale, and Henry W. Bragdon and Dr. Wendell Taylor of Exeter and Lawrenceville respectively.