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...Present college entrance requirements result in preparatory school curricula which leave the boy little time for self-education, for self-improvement of personal gifts and inclinations, for self-development of his own character by independent thought and experience. This is a fault to be corrected. Neither the college nor anyone has a right to monopolize the life of youth with its glorious possibilities, as if a certain amount of leisure were sure to be wasted or misapplied...
...work in Spanish or Italian, some scheme, either an additional College Board, or an anticipatory examination, or a certificate, should enable an entrant to prove a three year study of these tongues. For the Western high schools have in many cases substituted Spanish and Italian for German in their curricula. Thus arises one of the main blocs of dissatisfaction with the present requirements. For a student who has presented Spanish or Italian for admission, must now turn to elementary French or German or both to keep himself from language pro, instead of continuing the study of a literature in which...
...today is rapidly affiliating itself with the professional tutoring bureau which retains at least the saving grace of making no pretenses or excuses for its existence. A preparatory training should undoubtedly have more to offer than an intensive competition which is limited to the requirements of admission. If the curricula follow the present trend they will lack much that is to be desired...
...either of these hindrances. Its schedule will combine freedom from hide-bound methods with coordination instead of haphazard choice in the extensive field it will cover; nor does it face the danger of impracticality, since the subjects are potentially as valuable in post-graduation activities as most in present curricula...
...learns of the enormous possibilities of applying science to industries, will be the first to urge a lasting peace. Although the attitude with which these courses are given is naturally of primary importance, it is difficult to see how the colleges can add much to their present curricula, even in the interests of peace...