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Military Courses Shift Emphasis,
Become More Civilian In Content

committee of faculty members and
naval personnel who spearheaded the
current reforms envisioned a
lightening of the burden of
professional Navy subjects in the
student's first two years of college
coupled with a strengthening of the
content of the professional subjects
which will remain in the student's
schedule his third and fourth years.

To carry out this aim the third
year navigation course offered in
Maury Hall, already widely
considered the most rigorous
military class taught at the
University, will be presented next
fall with a greater emphasis on
spherical trigonometry and
spherical triangulation. Likewise, a
new fourth-year course concerned
with the linear analysis of ballistics
will place heavy emphasis on
mathematics.

Naval ROTC students are still
required to complete preferably
two semesters of either physics or
chemistry, but biology or geology
may be substituted.

Those students who wish to
receive a commission in the United
States Navy must meet the above
requirements with the stipulation
that certain subjects may not be the
student's major. These majors include
pre-medicine and pre-denistry.