Students in the Graduate School of Education who are working for the degree of Ed.M. may soon be required to study for two full years in preparation it has been announced by H. W. Holmes '03, Dean of the School, in his report for the year of 1924-1925.

"A two-year program for the Ed.M." he says, "would permit us to lay broad and sure foundations in general courses and to organize our more specialized training with greater effectiveness, developing it also in certain new directions.

"Our present danger lies in the direction of increase of instruction without considering ultimate aims and basic requirements. Already there is some evidence that our courses overlap--that we tend to build up instruction in separate fields as if in each field the foundations were to be repeated.

"There should be no necessity for this; on the contrary, our instructors in the special fields should be able to rely upon a broad and well-ordered foundation of general training. We have long realized how difficult it is to give such a foundation and add to it the necessary special training for competence in particular fields without requiring more than one year of study.

"Students often come to us in the hope of securing instruction and guidance in Vocational Education, Health Education, and Religious Education, but we have no adequate program in any of these fields.

"Among our fundamental courses my own half course is the only one that deals directly with the social and ethical foundations of education theory.

"For one whole group of our students, namely those who come to us direct from college without previous technical study of Education, we are approving programs consisting of one half year in Education and the other half in graduate study of a subject to be taught. Such a practice can not be considered satisfactory as a preparation for effective professional service.

"Our program has in consequence become complicated, although our administrative machinery has been so adjusted as to handle it without unnecessary difficulty. We have now come to the time when we ought to review our experience, not with reference to its details but rather with reference to the general principles on which we have organized our work."