An experiment in "higher education" is being carried on with marked success in a little college in northern Ohio.

The college is Hiram and the "system" is based on the continental method of giving the student his education in concentrated form. The plan calls for the pursuit of one subject at a time, over a period of nine weeks. For instance a student takes up the study of political science and pursues no other course but this one during the nine-weeks period. During that time he receives what is ordinarily the equivalent of a full term course.

While this idea is almost revolutionary for American colleges, we think it has some merit. Ordinarily, a student following a regular schedule will study three, four, and sometimes five subjects, each foreign to the other. For example a student may be pursuing at one time courses in English, history, a foreign language and political science. The student will undoubtedly favor one or two of the courses over the others and as a result allow the others to go by the board.

Were these four or five subjects taken separately and studied intensively over a shorter period of time, it seems that the chances of the student assimilating them would be much greater.

We'd like to see the idea tried out in some form here at the University. We pass it along as something for the college heads to think about when they meet again to plan the various curricula. -Ohio State, Dec. 13.