Things to Come

As a permanent program, Yale this week sets up a system which will let bright students graduate in three years. The brightest (to be called the Scholars of the House) may be admitted to a new experi ment in which, after two years of a "con trolled curriculum" (i.e., no electives), they will be allowed to branch out in much the manner of graduate students, study whatever they want, earn degrees on the basis of a thesis and a long oral examination.

This speeding of able students into professional and advanced study is Yale's prime contribution to the plans for post war education. Many another U.S. college and university has already decided on changes -- some of them conservative, most of them daring, a few visionary -- for the immediate future : P:Syracuse is going all out for television. Starting with a small station, it hopes to set up a room-to-room telecasting system on the campus to give mechanical ex perience to students, telecasting experience to teachers of adult-education pro grams. When television comes into its own, Syracuse will be able to hook into regular local stations with illustrated lectures, dramas, concerts, sports events.

P:The University of Illinois has developed a program leading to a degree in occupational therapy. It is already building an airport.

P: Ohio University will offer one, two, and three-year courses for students who do not want degrees, set up an elaborate Testing and Vocational Counseling Service.

P: The Universities of Georgia and Ten nessee are shaking up their programs to suit local needs. Georgia is spending $150,-ooo this summer for research in bee cul ture, meat curing, grass culture, artificial insemination of cattle.

P: North Dakota Agricultural College is working on a plan to require four-year vocational students to attend an extra year so that they can study more liberal-arts courses.

P:Harvard, chiefly to accommodate veterans, will continue its accelerated three-terms-a-year wartime pace.

P:Princeton is offering a two-year As sociate in Arts degree, for veterans only.

P:The University of Denver will expand its Department of Government Manage ment into a School of Public Administration. It will also merge and expand other departments into a School of Communication, covering journalism, radio, speech, drama, television, cinema, public-opinion analysis, advertising, public relations.

P:Stanford has announced a Pacific-Asiatic-Russian study program leading to a B.A. degree in the humanities. Students can major in 1) China, 2) Japan, 3) Rus sia, or 4) Southeast Asia and Pacific Islands.

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