College Plans No 3 Term Schedule

The University administration has no plans at present for recommending that the College go on a three term wartime acceleration basis, President Conant and Provost Buck revealed yesterday. But both Conant and Buck pointed out that student may speed up their own academic programs by using the existing facilities of the Summer School.

Discussing objections to the three-term college, such as existed during the war, the Provost said that academic standard are lowered if the professor has to deliver a course three times a year.

Students who wish to accelerate on their own may easily do so within the present University framework. Men can graduate in three years by taking extra courses during the regular terms and attending at least one summer session. Freshmen may also take summer courses prior to regular Fall registration.

Few Three Year Men Now

President Conant raised the issue of three-year degrees in his recent report to the Overseers. The President is now seeking a "favorable climate of opinion" within the University for three-year degrees. At present there is no constitutional barrier in the way of a student finishing in three years, but most students do not consider a three-year program or are discouraged by faculty members.

No Ivy League colleges have yet made recommendations for a return to a wartime three-term acceleration program. Both Princeton and Dartmouth, however, are considering reinstituting summer sessions for their students. Yale is considering acceleration or expanding its summer school. Last week the Williams College faculty voted to have a summer session in 1951.