Education: Stick to Four

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Is this the time to speed up college courses from four years to three? Last week seven of the most influential campuses in the U.S. said no in a joint statement. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, M.I.T., Tufts and Brown took the position that World War II's accelerated schedule was "highly unsatisfactory and . . . justified only under war conditions." So far, said the seven, the U.S. is neither "engaged in a global war nor committed to total mobilization."