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...followed shortly after, and, with the establishment of the new "Board of Admissions," is now planning to make further progress in this direction. There is no doubt that the comprehensive examinations have done a great deal to assist the well-prepared high school student to gain admittance, but the bugbear of "flunking in one" frightens many desirable students away to the state universities. The result, unfortunate for both school and college, has Leen, on the one hand, 'fitting schools' which send students almost entirely to the more conservative castern universities; and on the other, high schools (excepting those...
...education in this country has long been smoldering, and those who seek a more progressive policy will find an able spokesman in Dr. Mather Abbott, head-master of the Lawrenceville School, whose statements appear in another page of the CRIMSON. Dr. Abbott believes the two greatest difficulties are the "bugbear of college entrance requirements," and the failure of modern schools to realize that the "schoolboy of today is entirely a different being than the schoolboy of fifty years ago." He recommends the example of England in separating the intellectual sheep from the goats and paying especial attention to the scholars...
...educational system of American preparatory schools are advocated by Mather A. Abbott, formerly Professor of Latin and crew coach at Yale, and now Headmaster of Lawrenceville School, in an interview in the Yale News. He unreservedly condemns the present system and declares the schools "hidebound by tradition and the bugbear of the college entrance examinations...
...second great difficulty is that every school is bound by the bugbear of the college entrance requirements. I do not care what prospect and catalogues say, if a schoolmaster is absolutely honest, he will acknowledge that, in most cases, all his efforts, are directed to the purpose of placing his boys in their prospective colleges, free of all conditions. Hampered, firstly, by tradition, and secondly, by this bugbear, it is almost impossible to produce a real scholar...
...obligations in trying to make the present machinery of the University work successfully. He cannot in justice deny that the responsibility of whether that machinery has worked well or ill rests largely with the attitude he has taken. Take the case of concentration and distribution, which is such a bugbear at present. How many have given serious study and thought to the subject, for say fifteen minutes at a time? Or how many who have disliked to exercise their minds to that extent have talked to their Faculty Adviser upon the subject? Its very purpose would indicate that...