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...believe in three-year degrees, especially for the superior student," Bush said. "Liberal education should not be viewed as a prison term with one-fourth off for good behavior. I'm aware of the pressures of time and money, but these should not be the real consideration...
...proposal to which Bush objects would allow certain students who had been given advanced placement credit in three or more courses to be admitted as sophomores. Bush said this three-year degree would inevitably limit the scope of education because of the number of courses required for concentration and General Education...
Also concerned with the question of advanced standing, Dean of Freshmen F. Skiddy von Stade '38 hoped the plan would begin on a very small scale. Von Stade said that he had always tended to discourage men from three-year degrees because "the valuable things about college take leisure...
...important that any final draft contain the express provision that no credit be given for courses by-passed. The aim of the plan should be to make a student's four years in the College more worthwhile, not to provide him with an easy path to three-year graduation. For this reason the Committee's proposal to admit a number of men directly into the Houses as sophomores seems unsound. Those given sophomore status would have their total course requirements reduced to 12 from the usual 16. Although the Committee would encourage these students to stay on for the full...
...Educational Policy Committee's new plan for a wide system of advanced standing and placement continues this tradition. The proposals fail only where they tend to make education a three-year process, by providing for the admission of certain students as sophomores...