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...graduating class took advantage of the opportunity for three-year graduation under an accelerated program. Faculty investigation, however, discovered lax standards and sloppy study practices in speeding up the award of a degree. Standards were stiffened and requirements lengthened, and the number of applicants for the program diminished immediately...
...report to the Overseers, President Conant proposed a three-year college program with emphatic support. In the ensuing discussion one important change over the past emerged: there was to be no "acceleration" of regular courses in the undergraduate years. Involved in the new proposal was a complete revamping of the curriculum. Educators suggested a three-term-per-year plan to ease the revision, instead of the present two-term system. Emphasis in courses would undergo sweeping change. Less specialization in the upperclass years would be required. In short, the whole theory of undergraduate education would be re-examined; the curriculum...
...College itself. Acceleration lowers the caliber of undergraduate education. Advanced placement affects relatively few students, and, again, is likely to lead to an acceleration program undermining the value of the college education. The only solution President Conant could see was a complete redesigning of the College curriculum on a three-year basis...
Critics of the three-year program are numerous and vociferous. What will happen to the maturing process, they ask, if students are shuffled through college at such a rate? The nation has enough specialists and experts. Many feel it Harvard's function to produce leaders and inspire sound judment...
Further counter-arguments claim that extracurricular activities would suffer and die as a result of study intensification. ROTC, for practical purposes, might have to be eliminated; a three-year student might be unable to carry the extra course...