SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL CHANGES

Upon the recommendation of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences the President and Fellows and the Board of Overseers have voted concurrently upon a new plan for the administration of the degree of Bachelor of Science and higher degrees in Applied Science, and for the better organization of the Scientific School. Under the provision of the new system a degree of Bachelor of Science is established in Harvard College, the requirements for admission of students intending to become candidates for this degree to be the same as the present requirements for admission to the Lawrence Scientific School, and the requirements for graduation to be the same as the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in respect to the number of courses, the grade of work, and the length of residence. The new degree of Bachelor of Science, like the degree of Bachelor of Arts, will be given without designation of any field of study.

In addition to the new degree in Harvard College, a Graduate School of Applied Science is to be established as a permanent department of Harvard University. The subjects in which degrees will be granted in this Graduate School will be for the present: Mechanical, Electrical, and Civil Engineering, Mining, Metallurgy, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Forestry, Applied Chemistry, Applied Biology, and Applied Geology. A Bachelor's degree in arts or science, or its equivalent, will be required for admission.

The new organization of the instruction in Applied Science will provide in Harvard College and the Graduate School of Applied Science, jointly, five years of study.

For the present the degree of Bachelor of Science now given on completion of any one of the four-year programs of the Lawrence Scientific School, will be maintained, with designation of the field of study, but may be abolished if it seems best.

Candidates for the new degree of Bachelor of Science in Harvard College, like candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, will be free to elect courses offered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, subject to the existing regulations concerning choice of studies. It is expected, however, that a student who becomes a candidate for the degree of Bachelor of Science with the ultimate intention of entering the Graduate School of Applied Science, will select his courses advisedly. For students who do this, the period of residence in the latter school will ordinarily be two years; but a holder of a preliminary bachelor's degree, whether from Harvard College or another college or scientific school, whose previous scientific studies fall short of the amount pre-supposed by a two years' course in the new Graduate School, will be obliged to do as much more than two years' work in that school as his deficiencies require.

The arrangements above described will take effect beginning with the academic year 1906-07.