Approximately 200 Freshmen will find themselves in a position to avoid English A next fall as a result of a Faculty Council meeting Monday.

Upper Seventh

Under the present system the men who are admitted from the upper seventh of their class without exams find themselves willy nilly in Professor Hillyer's course. Beginning with the Class of 1940 these men may be exempted by passing a two-hour exam with a grade of 75 on the Friday preceding the opening of College.

Prep School Undergraduates

One other reform in the qualifications for entering English A effects preparatory school graduates who fail to pass the Board examination with a grade of 75. It they take a year of postgraduate work, as at Exeter or Andover, they also receive a special examination for exemption at the beginning of College.

Dean Leighton will administer the new reform, while Professor Hillyer takes charge of the compiling and correcting of the examinations.