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1919-1920

Last session the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Professor
Cappon, reported to the Principal and to the Board, that the
Senate was engaged on a reconstruction of the University
Courses, and keeping in mind the fundamental importance
of the Arts Course in the "training of a large-minded
citizenship". That idea, however, and generously carried
out would be no bar to the fullest development of the
other University courses.

This reconstruction, carried out, was announced at
the spring meeting of the Board, April 1919. "In the
Faculty of Arts, extensive changes were made in the
system of studies, partly to secure greater flexibility and
convenience, but chiefly to incrase educational efficiency."

The main features of the new system of studies are
given in very full detail in a special calendar issued
for the session of 1919-1920. To grasp the significance
of the changes and innovations introduced, in the Arts
curriculum, that special announcement itself must
be taken in hand by any one interested in the matter,
and studied closely page by page.

The Principal referred to the extra amount of work
and organizaiton the changes entailed upon the staff.
The registration was recovering from the decimating
effects of the war, and the staff, well equipped as it
was, was not on a sufficiently large scale to deal, say,

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