May Clarifies New History Major Plan

History concentrators taking tutorial for credit in their junior year will be allowed to study a subject of their own choosing, according to Ernest R. May, chairman of the Board of Tutors.

This step is part of a Departmental effort to encourage more independent study. The Department voted ten days ago to permit juniors in Groups I and II to take two full years of History 99.

May said last night that the subject-matter of this tutorial would be "up to the individual student." He suggested that qualified students might profit from devoting their junior year in History 99 to their "particular interests" within the field of history.