EMERGENCY 3-YEAR DEGREES OFFERED

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has voted special concessions for honors students wishing to obtain their degrees in three years instead of the usual four.

Hitherto any students wishing to qualify for the Bachelor's degree in three years have been asked, in addition to other requirements, to complete a total of sixteen courses in order to compensate for the loss of the fourth year of tutorial work.

Under the new plan, which is designed to last for the duration of the war, the approved students may satisfy all requirements provided that they successfully pass 15 courses and provided that they take at least one full course in Summer School.

Although no decision has yet been made concerning tuition charges under the new system, the University will probably charge the usual $100 for each extra course which candidates for three-year degrees must take.

Only Honors Students Eligible

The plan specifically applies to honors students only. Men of low academic standing or men taking only part-time tutorial work are not eligible, but men with C plus averages will probably be allowed to become candidates.

Honors students in Chemistry, Physics and Engineering Sciences will be less affected by the new plan, since, at an earlier date, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to approve three-year schedules for honors candidates majoring in these subjects.

In addition to the new Summer School provision, men in these scientific fields taking the regular four courses in Military Science or Naval Science will be permitted to count two of these courses toward the special distribution requirements of the University's degree. Before this, undergraduates have been allowed to count only one Military or Naval Science course for distribution.

In the departments of Chemistry and Engineering Sciences, which have no tutorial system, the minimum course requirements will remain, as before, at 16 courses. As a department with tutorial instruction, the Physics Department falls under the 15-course provisions of the new system.

The plan, which will affect mostly the classes of 1944 and 1945, is an effort to keep up the College's enrollment without lowering its standards.