ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS

The recent report of the Committee on Admissions offers one interesting fact in the light of Divisionals and Concentration. A decision to prefer candidates who offer credits for admission by the New Plan over those who present them by the old is a rather obvious attempt on the part of the Administration to follow up its policy of giving the student a connected education. For under the Old Plan the candidate may take ten or a dozen examinations spread over a period of three years, and by the time he has taken the last the chances are that he has forgotten most of what he prepared for the first. But in order to enter successfully by the Old Plan he must to a far greater extent retain all of his knowledge until he has passed off the last of his entrance requirements, and under these circumstances he is much more likely to come to college with a substantial background for his future studies.

Just what the eventual effects of this policy may be it is difficult to say, but at present it seems to be decidedly a move in the right direction, and ought to be of considerable assistance in bridging the gap which exists between prep-school and university.