Verification or denial of the faculty's suspicion that the reading period is often used to do the work which should have been done during the regular term will be sought today by the Student Council committee appointed to study laboratory hours and the reading period. Beginning this morning and continuing through the first of next week six hundred questionnaires will be received by selected upperclassmen and fifty Freshmen, evenly divided between scientific fields and all others.

Lab Time

The questionnaire attempts to find out from those in the sciences whether the laboratory hours are too long and if the work interferes with the achievement of a general education.

No Reading Period Work on Exam

On the reading period the two most important questions concern the advisibility of omitting all reading period assignments from the examination and having this material reported upon in tutorial conferences at the beginning of the second half year. The other query is the extent to which students take advantage of the omission of classes to make up the work they failed to do earlier in the term.

The committee appointed by the Council is as follows: Le Moyne White '36, chairman, Leonard P. Eliel '36, Milton G. Greene '36, Francis Keppel '38, William D. Locke '36, Neil G. Melone '37, Benjamin C. Riggs '36, and Henry P. Roosevelt '38.