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That the concentration quota system is hardly a system any more was revealed last night by the statement of James B. Munn '12, professor of English and head of the concentration quota committee, that, of the 967 Freshmen applying for a field of concentration, 886 (91%) have been assigned to the field of their first choice. The remaining 81 men have been denied admittance not because the quota system prevented it, but because their scholastic requirements were unsatisfactory...
...biologist stood aghast. In particular he fixed his stare upon a Roman Catholic priest who was handling the little coppers as merrily and as diligently as the best of them. The biologist began to suspect a Moonface Munn and wondered if that collar was really continuous or merely put on backwards. The ecclesiastic looked up from his unholy rites met the challenging gaze of the interloper and smiled sheepishly. The biologist felt his fears confirmed...
Professor Munn's Committee on the Choice of Electives interviewed 662 students during the Spring and Fall of last year and found that many Freshmen showed abysmal ignorance about the all important problem of concentration in departments of the University. Having spent all their Freshman year satisfying elementary requirement such as English A and History 1, the students knew comparatively little about the various fields of concentration, or what the departments, had to offer. The result was that the Committee was forced to assume the duties of the Freshman advisers, who should have counseled their advisees earlier in the year...
Professor Munn's Committee can not continue to assume the duties of the Freshman Advisers every year, unless more instructors are assigned to do this work. The Committee should either be enlarged to take over the job of advising on a much larger scale, or preferably it should be allowed to resume the work it was originally intended to do, namely to supervise the flexible Quota System and continue to collect the information for the University, which it has done so far in a most efficient and praise-worthy manner...
Professor J. B. Munn, English: Dr. David Worcester, English: Thursday 1.30-3 o'clock...