WOULD COMBINE BOTH PLANS OF ADMISSION

That, in any proposed plan of admission or limitation the Committee on Admission should be allowed to exercise judgment to a certain degree is the conviction of Assistant Professor Bancroft Beatley '15 of the Educational Department, according to an interview given recently to a CRIMSON reporter.

"Any admission board, of the right sort," he said, "will always be subject to the criticism of the public in its so-called weakness of 'favoritism'. To give full justice to candidates, the Committee on Admission must be allowed to exercise its judgment on the questions of whether or not a candidate is fit.

"Many different plans of admission", Professor Beatley continued, "have been tried throughout the country with varied success, but a combination of the best has not, as yet, been put to the test." Investigations carried on by Professor Beatley here at Harvard show plainly that the New Plan of admission is much superior to the Old Plan. Investigations at Columbia have proved that the intelligence rating is slightly, more reliable than the New Plan.

Would Continue Both Plans

In discussing the above data Professor Beatley said, "Taking these as the best plans when used alone it is quite certain that, when combined, they would be even more efficient. Such a plan would then consist of four comprehensive examinations, an intelligence test, and the school record. By picking the candidates who ranked highest in all three, and leaving the rest for the Committee to apply its judgment upon, it is a positive fact that we will get the best sort of students. The Committee on Admission in the latter case would give preference to the candidates ranking the highest in two of the three tests. This is, more or less, a wholly tentative plan based entirely upon facts and, since it has never been tried, no accurate statement of its efficiency can be given. However, it is to be emphasized that whatever plan may be adopted, it must give the Committee of Admission the full right of using its judgment."