A Three Year Literary Course

May be Adopted Some Day in Michigan

PRES. ANGELL'S VIEWS

He Can See No Reason Why a Boy Can Not be Prepared for College at Sixteen

The University of Michigan may adopt a three-year literary course as Harvard and Brown have done for students who wish to rush through college. President Angell is not averse to the innovation, says the Detroit Journal.

"This is not by any means a new proposition at the University of Michigan," he said yesterday. "As long ago as 1881 I remember that Dr. Henry Frieze made a similar proposal. Though a three-year course has never been lost sight of, we have adopted a different solution at Michigan. We have made it possible for students to combine courses in literature and law or medicine so as to complete both courses in six or seven years.

"The adoption of a three-year literary course by Harvard and Brown will influence other colleges to follow their example because of their prestige. Of course I do not know what the future has in store for Michigan, or whether the regents will see fit to adopt a three-year course soon. They may do it.

"Personally I cannot see any reason why a boy should not ordinarily be prepared for college when he is 16 years old. I was ready when I was 14. There is a tendency nowadays in grammar schools to string the studies out too much.

"The three-year course proposition is a pretty broad educational question, and there is much to be said on both sides. Even the shortening of the college preparatory period would not help the boy who had to leave school early and later wanted to go through college when he was already old for starting in life."