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A SALUTARY INFLUENCE and board met together to discuss the proposal, the trustees in June 1931 gave their approval, reminding the faculty of its responsibility "for bringing all the courses to Bachelor of Arts Standard." Beginning with the class entering in the fall of 1931, the College offered the arts degree to all candidates except those in engineering.198 In 1942, as in 1922, the distribution requirements consumed about half of a student's College work. Gone were the compulsory Latin and mathematics. In their places the students now had to take two languages and two sciences, although one could substitute what was called "pure mathematics" for either one language or one science.199 In 1925 a yearlong freshman orientation course was added to the distribution requirements. Six years later the faculty approved a problems-of-life course for seniors, but it was never offered and was finally dropped in 1939.20° Seniors who were graduated between 1935 and 1942 were also required to take comprehensive examinations. During that time questions about these examinations and how they could be administered fairly demanded considerable attention in faculty meetings. One sore point was how to deal with students who failed part or all of an examination a few short weeks before they expected to be graduated. Plans to institute sophomore comprehensives never came to fruition. The senior examinations became a casualty of war. The 1942 distribution requirements were as follows: Orientation, 4 semester hours English Composition, 6 semester Hours English Bible, 4 semester hours Foreign Language, 12 semester hours in two Philosophy, Political Science, Economics, and History, 12 semester hours in 2 Literature, 12 semester hours in two, at least half in a foreign language Biology, Chemistry, and Physics, 16 semester hours in two Pure Mathematics, 6 semester hours may be substituted for one language or one science. 198Following board approval, the 1933 catalogue announced that instead of four engineering degrees, there would now be one: bachelor of science in engineering. The proposal to continue the science degree in business administration was dropped. 199One of the professors who crafted this particular distribution requirement in 1936 told this writer years later that it resulted from the logrolling without which certain desired changes could not have been accomplished. From 1927 through 1931 mathematics was listed as an option in the category which included biology, chemistry, and physics. From 1932 to 1936 it was listed as an option in the category which included the languages. 2ooprofe8SOr Sanders was largely responsible for the introduction of both of these courses and until his impending retirement in 1940 also for teaching the orientation course, which dealt with such topics as how to study, self-development, scientific- mindedness, the heritage of social institutions, and public opinion. When Donald R. Heiges took over the course in the fall of 1940 he changed it considerably. 54