GRADUATE DEANS ADVISE STUDENTS TO GET LIBERAL EDUCATION IN COLLEGE

In statements recently released by the deans of the various graduate schools concerning undergraduate requirements for entering their departments, the point was generally stressed that students of the College should not concentrate exclusively on the subject of their post-graduate work, but should attempt to absorb as much as possible of the liberal education offered at Harvard.

The Graduate School of Business Administration has no course requirements at all, but Dean Wallace B. Donham advises that students "should elect some courses in economics and should be able to express themselves clearly and concisely." All the graduate schools stress the ability to write good English.

Many of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in teaching offered by the Graduate School of Education can be anticipated in undergraduate work, and the student "can thus substantially shorten the necessary period of graduate study," according to Dean Francis C. Spaulding.

Aside from stressing the importance of facility in the use of English, Dean James M. Landis of the Law School suggests history, philosophy, and literature as essential to a knowledge of human history; mathematics as excellent discipline in handling abstract ideas; familiarity with the scientific method; and, finally, some research into original sources, so that the student "will already have lost complete reverence for the printed page" by the time he enters the Law School.

"A non-scientific field of concentration is entirely suitable for students intending to enter the medical school," Dean C. Sidney Burwell states. Beyond the minimum requirements the student should be able to read French and German and have some knowledge of Embryology and Quantitative Analysis.