widespread agreement on these essentials even on the part of those who
think and work and live in the very center of these problems.
Res cinehat igen

Your Conmittee has reduced its recommendations concerning the cur-
riculum to only a few which we believe to be of definite importance. It
is recommended that the proposed requirements apply to all students en-
tering the College in the fall of 1945 i eects: It ts further
recommended that the Administrative Committee be authorized to determine
the policy regarding substitutions for advanced-standing students and
possible exemptions for those who enter the College so late that enforce-

ment of the requirements would cause undue hardship.

I. English Composition and English Literature
Our proposal is contained in the following recommendations of the
' English Department:

The English Department recommends to the Curriculum Committee
the establishment of the following course to be required of all
students in the College during the freshman and sophomore years:

1. Composition and Literature. Three hours credit.
The study and practice of the basic principles of com-
mmnication. Regular practice in writing will be ac-
companied by the reading of masterpieces of literature
to give the student examples of the best writing and
to introduce him to the great literary tradition of
cur culture. —

2. Composition and Literature. Three hours credit.
A continuation of course 1.

5. Composition and Literature. Two hours credit.
A continuation of course 2.

4. Composition and Literature. Two hours credit.
A continuation of course 3.

This course, if adopted, would replace the present courses 1
and 2 English Composition and 10, dia, and lib English Literature.
it is expected that if the course is — students will be