The 1926-27 report of the Graduate School of Education, recently submitted to President Lowell by Dean H.W. Holmes '03, reveals a year of progress and of innovation in several respects.

The total enrolment for the year reached 529, the highest figure in the history of the School. It shows an increase of 97 over the previous year, and was probably a result of the anticipation of the new and extended requirements for the degree of Master of Education.

The completion of the new two-year program for the degrees was the chief constructive work of the year. The committee on the reorganization of instruction, aided by certain subcommittees, and sanctioned by the vote of the Faculty, took up the duty of defining curricula and administrative procedures for putting the new requirements into effect.

The main purpose of requiring two years of graduate study for the degree of Master of Education, which is the chief feature of the new program, was to select as candidates for the degree only those who intended to take seriously the business of securing professional preparation for careers in educational work. The step was a radical one in view of the fact that only one state requires graduate work in preparation for teaching in secondary schools, but the Faculty felt, nevertheless, that it should act firmly in the belief that education is a profession which should require and reward serious preparation on the part of those who enter it.

The admission policy was revised to conform to the new program and to make it a force for the proper selection of candidates. Students whose undergraduate records form a collection of unrelated courses, even if technical courses in education are included, will as longer be admitted.