ADOPT LIMIT FOR FIELD OF HISTORY AND LITERATURE

The Department of History and Literature, having the approval of the Faculty, has established a ruling under which the number of men admitted to this field from now on will be limited to 50 students from each class. The change was considered by members of the Department, of which Andre Morize, professor of French Literature, is chairman, and has now gone into effect.

Past Average

The number that has been set as a limit for future classes represents approximately the average number of men who have enrolled in this field in other years. The limit has been established in order to keep the field at about its present size, and is a regulation which is deemed of importance in maintaining high standards among the undergraduates who concentrate in the field.

Field Limited

It is expected that members in the future may enroll in numbers exceeding this newly adopted figure. In this case the established number of 50 men will be admitted, the successful students being selected on a basis of academic record by members of the Committee.

In explaining the creation of a limit of this kind on the entrance of new men into the History and Literature Field, it has been said that this field gives no courses of its own. For this reason a man refused admission to concentration is not cut off from any courses in either History or Literature; courses of this kind are given either under the Department of History or under some other Department, and hence may be elected for study by students in the same way as ever before. The rule will, however, limit the number of students who are actual concentrators in the field.