1. The student's training in writing, while not increased in quan-
tity over the present required six hours of English Composition, is spread
over two years instead of one. Good habits of writing can be better es-—
tablished in this longer period of time.

2. The combination of literature and composition will afford better
subject matter for the latter, while appreciation and memory of the former
will be strengthened.

College students are now required to take six hours of English Compo-
sition. They are also required to take a course in literature. The lat-
ter may be in a foreign language, but actually nearly all students meet
this requirement by a course in English Literature. In practice, there-
fore, almost all of our students take eight or nine hours of English, and
many take ten or eleven. The proposed requirement of ten hours of English
for all students will, therefore, actually be but a slight increase in the
amount of English taken by some students, and no increase at all for many
others.

Incidentally, it should be mentioned that the proposal will reduce
the maximum amount of English taken in the freshman year to six hours for
all students, whereas now very few take but six hours, while most take
from eight to ten. This will leave more opportunity in ths freshman year
for other subjects.

Your Committee recommends that this course be required of all stu-

 

dents entering the College in the fall of 1945 and thereafter.

II. Speech
To your Committee it seems highly desirable that we give all of our

students some fundamental training in speech, since obviously every one of