between the terms was a special four-week study period in January. With the inception of the four-course load came a reduction in course offerings and a modification of the core program. This new approach was designed to permit students to concentrate on fewer courses each semester and at the same time afford them an opportunity for pursuing special interests for a month. Study during the January period differed markedly from the work of the regular semesters in placing greater responsibility on the student as well as enabling him to devote his entire time to a single topic of his own choice free from the demands of the conventional courses. The program also provided for independent individual and group projects both on and off campus. In 1968 it included such diverse topics as: classical art, genetics and physiology of higher fungi, the music of Bela Bartok, archaeological excavation in Florida, and Indian and Japanese literature. Opportunities for study abroad under Colgate auspices were expanded in 1966 when the History and English Departments established one-semester study groups in London to be conducted in conjunction with that of the
