EDUCATION AS A PROFESSION.

With the modern need for specialized training, teaching has become a profession in which the requirements for admission are steadily increasing in severity. As the demand grows for the trained teacher, universities throughout the country are enlarging their educational departments. At Harvard and Yale they have become an important division; and at Columbia and Chicago schools of education separate from the college have been formed.

The modern teacher is treated with a new respect. That social and political fields are open to him may be seen from the example of President Wilson and ex-President Taft, educators as well as presidents. Not only does the profession offer opportunity for public service, but fair compensation in return.

Though Harvard has not a school of education, separate from the college, the department is well known and widely attended. After an increase of 66 2-3 per cent. in enrolment during the last two years, it will probably become a graduate school in the near future.

Several graduates of Harvard have already become famous on the field of education in the United States. Among them are Dr. W. T. Foster, president of Reed College, Portland, Oregon; Dr. E. O. Swisson, Commissioner of Education in Idaho; Dr. F. W. Ballou, Director of Educational Research for Boston city schools; and Dr. W. S. Learned, who is connected with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in New York.