"The new curriculum," Dean Hawkes explained, "recognizes the fact that there are three types of students each one of which is worthy and on each one of which the degree of the college will gladly be conferred upon the completion of the requirements for the degrees.

"In the first place there is the student who is looking forward to a professional school, and who is pointing his entire college work toward a broad and comprehensive preparation for a life of professional usefulness.

"Closely related to this type is the student who by temperament and ambition is a scholar, and for whom the most effective college course is the one which gives him the opportunity to go far toward the bottom of some field of scholarly interest.

"There is also the man whose best intellectual development is not obtained through research work or even through 'search' work of the kind encouraged by seminars and intensive attention to the cultivation of a narrow field.

"The administrative device which has been adopted automatically to take care of these various types of students consists in the requirement for the degree of sixty so-called maturity credits.

"The solution of the problem of the first two collegiate years hinges upon the organization of a program permitting the student to make a wide survey of various fields of intellectual interests. In order that he may determine the direction which he should finally take." The New York Times.