students and those who may have been exceptionally prepared in their
high school education may well find here a limited opportunity to
get on to the upper levels of instruction a little more rapidly than
heretofore. However, because the requirement is to represent clear-
ly a college standard, and because it is desirable that something of
the University atmosphere should have been imbibed, the examination
may not be taken until the student has completed approximately a
year of college standing.

What offices or other facilities shall be available to the stu-

dent seeking assistance in the way of preparing for the examination
will be determined by the committee appointed to administer the re-

quirement.

5. Credit for the history—philosophy-social science examination
will count toward the distribution requirement for Division III, and
will count as having satisfied the field requirement in either his-
tory or social science as the student may choose.

J. W. Ashton

W. W. Davis

Hilden Gibson

R. M. Howey

C. P. Osborne

W. E. Sandelius, Chairman

This proposal assumes that two things are desirable in all our
graduates, namely,

l. That every graduate should have a fair knowledge of the main
paths travelled by mankind which have brought it to the present stage in
our Western civilization.

2. That every graduate should understand and appreciate American
institutions and the American way of life.

Your Committee agrees that these two should be considered an essen-
tial part of the equipment of all our students.

The method proposed is unique. It is not copied from other state
universities, some of which are doing all the other things recommended in
this report. The members of the special committee deliberately offered
this plan after many months of study. They climbed numerous hills only

to climb down again. They considered requiring two or three of our