insistence on full length of terms or semesters, insistence on final ex-
aminations, observance of prerequisites, and our quantitative and quali-
tative requirements for promotion from class to class. These are not the
only means toward achievement of high standards, but they are not the
sign of conservatism; rather they grow out of the desire for excellence.
2. Our willingness and determination to modify our curricula to
meet student needs. The minutes of the College Faculty show, especially
in recent years, an amazing number of changes in courses, both major and
minor in nature, indicating a continuous response to the ever-increasing
Imowledge in every field and to the needs of our students. In addition,
a number of new curricula have been established in recent years. Among
these are the curricula leading to the Bachelor of Science degrees in
Chemistry, Gebleur, Physics, Nursing, Physical Therapy, and Social Work,
and to the Bachelor of Arts degree for Medical Technicians. Also, we are
making much greater use of the courses in the professional schools, as
iliustrated by the establishment, in the College, of majors in Art and in
Music. In fact, the great majority of courses offered in the School of
Fine Arts are now open to College students. With the approval of the
deans concerned, a College scenes may now take for credit any course
offered by the School of Law. The lists of approved courses from the
several eocteselened schools have been greatly enlarged and the number of
hours which may be selected from them by students who are candidates for
the straight A.B. degree has been increased from fifteen to twenty. The
combined curricula with Law and Medicine, of course, permit the substitu-

tion of a whole year's work in the professional school for the fourth

year of College work.