The Two-Unit Plan at Mount Holyoke College

A N ARTICLE on the two-unit plan at Mount Holyoke College which appeared in this journal three years ago was a report on the progress of an experiment that had then been in operation for only a year.1 In June, I939, the first group of students working under the plan completed their college course. While during this period the two-unit plan has not ceased to be experimental-anything as alive and individual is constantly being changed and modified-it now rests on a surer basis than it did three years ago, and with the graduation of one class the achievements of the students working under it can be tested by accepted standards in comparison with the results attained by students in the regular course. When it was started four years ago the idea behind the plan was not new. Indeed, it has been said that Mary Lyon inaugurated it because her first curriculum provided that the students should spend five weeks on two subjects and then change to two others. Whether or not the plan bears any relation to the early curriculum of Mount Holyoke it can

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