To the Editor of the CRIMSON.

It may be interesting to note that the recommendation concerning science requirements made by the Student Committee on Education, is, in essence, an accomplished fact at Antioch College, Ohio, where an experiment in cooperative education is being worked out. The Committee recommends a "general survey course, presenting, without laboratory work, the more important principles of astronomy, geology, physics, chemistry, zoology. It should be the purpose of the course to acquaint students with the scientific point of view, and give them a general understanding of the laws which govern the external world in which they live." Antioch has realized this need in modern education to the extent of requiring for a degree courses in Chemistry, Physics, Biology, and "Earth Science" (which includes a survey of climatology, meteorology, astronomy, and geology). Thus the Antioch student, if he be susceptible to education, will graduate with a good foundation in the fundamental laws of the natural sciences.

Antioch has carried out yet another of the Committee's recommendations, i.e., to divide elementary physics and Chemistry courses into the the technical and cultural groups. The technical beginning courses are recommended for specialists in science, while the cultural are primarily for the purpose of giving the student "a point of view and of bringing out the educational and cultural value of chemistry (and physics) as a science." (Antioch Bulletin) The Antioch program departs from that of the Committee, however, in that laboratory work is still required in these courses. Antioch persists in believing that laboratory work presents the study of science more vividly and with more reality than study from books. Louis Harap. prov. '28