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A GREATER GETTYSBURG entered the seminary.190 Of the 44 percent who earned bachelor of science degrees, most chose one of the four groups which stressed training in the sciences. About 8 percent were engineers. Between 1911 and 1922 there were several definite trends in student choices. Fewer and fewer were electing Group 1. More were electing Group 4 (Chemistry and Physics) and, especially after World War I, Group 6 (Commerce and Finance).191 In the spring of 1920 the faculty began considering major revisions of the curriculum which would provide more opportunities for students to concentrate than were possible under the existing group system. In December the trustees responded to their request for permission to proceed by asking for details of the proposed new plan, as well as of additions to the faculty and "material equipment" which it would require. A committee of eight professors and President Granville spent much of the year 1921 preparing a detailed report which the faculty adopted in time to be able to present it to the trustees at their December meeting. Possibly in part because they were assured that, as presented, it would require no additions to staff or equipment, the trustees promptly adopted the report. The new curriculum went into effect in the fall of 1922. With a number of important modifications, the curricular arrangement adopted in 1921 was still in effect more than sixty years later. A total of 136 semester hours of satisfactorily completed work was required for graduation, except for some honor students, who needed only 132 hours. The College now offered seven undergraduate degrees: bacjielor of arts, bachelor of science, bachelor of science in business administration, and bachelor of science in four phases of engineering: civil, electrical, industrial, and mechanical. For the arts degree, which the catalogue described as given to those who chose the Classical course, the candidate needed to complete "prescribed work" or distribution requirements amounting to about one-half of the 136 hours and including two years of Latin as well as a second foreign language. The candidate for one of the six science degrees also had to take work in two such languages, but neither had to be Latin. The distribution requirements for the arts degree were outlined as follows in the 1922 catalogue: 190Synod committees and others were highly pleased that Gettysburg continued to offer the traditional Classical course and attract so many students, while at the same time making newer courses available for those who wanted them. Without offering any convincing proof, the Gettysburgian for March 1, 1916 claimed that Gettysburg had "the largest percentage of students of any college in the United States taking the classical courses." 191Each issue of the catalogue listed the graduates of the previous year and the names and group choices of current students. 54