3. The Committee commends the recent decision of the several foreign
language departments to add laboratory work to their basic courses and to
organize further opportunity for training in conversation both through
course work and through the use of the "sound room". It will be interest-
ing to have an evaluation of this step after the program has been in ef-
fect for a few years.

4. Our distribution requirements are, in our judgment, one of the
strongest and best features of our curriculum. They make for broader and
more liberal training in the undergraduate years than is found in other
institutions of our type. No longer is it possible, as it was a few years
ago, for our students to be graduated with but a single college course in
either mathematics or science, or with but a single course either in his-
tory, in one of the several social sciences, in psychology, or in philosophy.

Division I is the division of languages and literatures. It is
through Language that we communicate our teeny te others, either through
the written or the oral word. It is through our own language that we com
mumicate with our own; it is only through foreign languages that we can
understand other peoples and commnicate with them. Division II is the
division of mathematics and the natural sciences. In an increasingly
scientific world our graduates cannot afford to be ignorant of science
and of mathematics, the tool of science. Division III is the division of
history, the social sciences, psychology and philosophy. No one living in
a world of human beings and human organizations can understand that world
without basic training in this division.

Although our requirements call for the distribution, in these three
divisions, of approximately one-half of the student's four-year course,

yet they afford a fine flexibility suited to the wide variety of student