OBVIOUS ADVANTAGE IN SCHEME

That the method inaugurated last year in about half of the sections of English A has many obvious possibilities is admitted by Professor C. N. Greenough '98, in an article describing the experiment after its first year of trial, which appeared in the latest Graduates' Magazine.

The plan, in brief, was to assemble in certain of the small sections, into which the many Freshmen taking English A are divided, those who were taking the same courses in other courses than English, the purpose being to provide a common ground of interest in the topics to be assigned for theme-reading and writing.

Professor Greenough says in part: "Four sections in English A are now made up of men from Government 1, two of men in English 28, and one each of men taking History 1, Philosophy, Classics and Sciences. It may still be too early to estimate accurately the advantages of the undertaking but its possibilities are obvious. What it may lead to, we do not know. Clearly it tends to make of English A something less like a 'course' than it used to be, and more like a 'bureau for the encouragement of English'."