Hum 5 to Grant Reading Period

The 688 students in Humanities 5 will enjoy a modified Reading Period this terms, the first Reading Period granted to a lower-level General Education course.

Morton G. White, professor of Philosophy and Hum 5 lecturer during the second term, said yesterday that the Committee on Educational Policy approved last year his proposal to suspend lectures in Hum 5 during this term's Reading Period. Sections will meet once during the period to fulfill the old requirement that instruction be given for the full term in freshman courses.

Not Faculty Plan

White noted that the plan was no connection with the recent Faculty decision to grant Reading Period "to all courses of instruction at the pleasure of the department or committee concerned."

"This Reading Period was planned by special arrangement with the CEP," White said. "I haven't really studied the new Faculty plan." White has lectured in Hum 5 since 1952 and said that he had "long felt that the reading period should be an option for every instructor."

Meanwhile John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Chairman of the Committee on General Education, said that "the real test" of the Faculty new Reading Period policy "will be whether Bruner does it in his own courses." Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology, originally presented the motion to the Faculty.

Finley noted that professor White's proposal had "been on the books for the past year."