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From 400 to 500 liberal-arts colleges will offer a three-year course, besides their normal four-year one, said their spokesman, Dr. Guy Everett Snavely, executive director of the Association of American Colleges. He guessed about 250,000 students would enroll for it. They will save time by attending twelve-week summer sessions, cutting short their Christmas and Easter holidays...
...Snavely admitted that the plan might dim bright college years: three-year students would have little time for extracurricular activities...
Disillusion. In Manhattan, a three-year survey of the sophomore psyche proved the average Columbia sophomore felt the reality of campus life compared unfavorably with the movie version...
Honors students in Chemistry, Physics and Engineering Sciences will be less affected by the new plan, since, at an earlier date, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to approve three-year schedules for honors candidates majoring in these subjects...
Unfortunately, the emergency is with us, like it or no, and not only the liberal arts colleges but every other part of American life except airplane manufacturers is looking forward to a bit of belt-tightening. If it is a choice between the three-year degree and an almost non-existent Harvard, it is certainly better to lop off the year. The Administration, with its car to the ground and its pipeline to Washington, seems to feel that the developments of the draft make the move a necessity...