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...acquire his knowledge of the military through the regular means provided by the government in its militia system, is not stated in the outlines of the scheme which have come over the Atlantic cable. If the plan goes into operation it may awaken similar military interest in the curricula of the larger American universities such as Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Princeton, which now are without the services of Regular Army instructors. The only large Eastern university to avail itself of the services of an officer of the Army at present is Cornell, where Lieut, H.T. Bull, 13th United States Cavalry...
...interesting branch of technical training is the school for cub reporters which several colleges are introducing to their curricula. The most successful one at present is that of the University of Missouri, which runs the daily paper of the town, on a thoroughly businesslike basis. There is one at New York University, which has the advantage of being in immediate touch with the centre of progressive journalism, and can therefore obtain the advice of almost any prominent metropolitan newspaper man. The Pulitzer bequest is to be used to start a school of journalism at Columbia along entirely new lines. These...
Today the New England Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools will discuss the subject of "New Methods of Admission to Colleges." Harvard is a leader in aiming to fit her entrance requirements to the curricula of secondary schools all over the country. By an analysis of the figures published this morning some idea of the success of the new plan of admission to Harvard may be obtained...
Since statistics show that the average candidate for admission to Harvard College obtains almost exactly the necessary 26 points, it would seem that the requirements for entrance are well adapted to the curricula of the schools at which men prepare. It is true, however, that this average is a mean of two extremes, about which the individual cases tend to group themselves. Men are liable to enter either with points to spare or with conditions; and a subject for discussion lies in the fact that the latter class is composed almost wholly of students who come from public schools which...
...University might, then, attempt to make its requirements conform to the curricula of the public schools. That an increased number of students from such institutions would be a benefit to the College is apparent from the investigations which have shown that a preponderance of students of the "preparatory" school type is detrimental to the scholarship of Harvard College as a whole...