With the ending of the semester the question of a reading period for Dartmouth again regains some significance. Writing in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, President Lowell states that the experiment at Harvard has shown the most gratifying results. Whether or not a reading period of two weeks duration would fit into the Dartmouth curriculum is, of course, beside the point at this late date. There are, quite naturally, many courses that do not lend themselves gracefully to any such radical change as this would entail, coming as it would in the nature of an after thought. But where such an innovation would be possible, that is in such courses that are pot, by their very nature, kept to rigid lines of study. I should like to ascertain the trend of campus opinion, in the hope that, if the plan should meet with enough backing a petition could be arranged for and, God being willing, a short reading period at the end of this semester actually become a reality. The Dartmouth.
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