THE SUMMER SCHOOL

The report of Dean Chase of the Harvard Summer School, published in today's CRIMSON, indicates that enrollment in this school is steadily growing, chiefly among the undergraduates. The cause for this may be seen in Dean Hanford's requiring dropped students to make up their work by taking courses during the summer rather than by sending them into some non-academic activity as was frequently done formerly. With the increase of undergraduates in the Summer School, it is obvious that the graduate and undergraduate work will have to be even more carefully synthesized. The graduate students are, for the most part, teachers attempting to supplement their academic work and their demands from such a school are essentially different from those of the undergraduate trying to recover his college standing.

If students are to make up work given in Harvard College at the Summer School, not only must the abbreviated courses be sufficiently intensive to cover the complete field, but the atmosphere of teacher's training courses injected by the graduate students must be reduced to a minimum. The undergraduate must not be allowed to slip through with a high grade and no real accomplishment, nor should he be stifled by specialized graduate work. The Summer School is the best at hand to aid the dropped student, but every effort must be made to have courses there conform to the standards set by the college courses of the regular academic year.