The Opelousas courier., 1894-03-10
Tulane Scholarships.

The following extracts from all ad-
dress of the Administrators OF the Iu-
lane Educational fund TO the public
school authorities, the teachers and
the people of the State of louisiana,
will prove interesting:
This Board has resolved to 'dlscon-
tinue the High School teaching which
the educational conditions of our State
imposed as a necessity heretofore, and
to devote its means and efforts ex-
clusively to the task of developing the
higher education of our people.
AT this day, it is an accepted trulsm
that the State should assume the func-
ton of furnishing to its citizens the
first grades of instruction, as being the
least required to fit them for any in.
telligent performance of the duties OF
citizenship, and therefore essential to
the welfare of the State. Our public
school system, will be lamentably den-
Gent until it shall establish not only
Primary Schools, but Central High
Schools, and we have established a
standard admission to our colleges not
beyond the proper grade of high school
instruction. The numerous free
scholarships Zone hundred and seventy
one) granted in our Colleges and Uni
versity make it very desirable that the
courses of instruction pursued N our
Public High Schools should be special
ly adapted to prepare for those col
leges, because the opportunity of free
education from the Primary through
the University is thus secured to many
of the ambitious youth Of the State.
We, therefore, desire to impress upon
the Public High School authorities and
the people the Importance of establish
ing Public High Schools at central
points throughout the State, and espe-
cially of adopting therein courses OF
study devised and adequate to prepare
students for admission to the Colleges
Of the University, as is always done to
IL great extent by the excellent Public
High Schools of New Orleans.e
This Board is anxious to encourage,
in every way, the establishment of
Public and Private High Schools and
Academies, which shall act as feeders
to the University.
To that end we have adopted the fol-
lowing measures, viz:
1. That if any Public or Private High
School or Academy in the State shall
furnish to the President of the Univer-
sity satisfactory proof: ~ that. it has
adopted the curriculum of studies pe-
commended by him or its equivalent ;
(2) that it has a corps of teachers COM
petent for instruction therein ~ that
it has enforced an adequate standard of
examinations, the president ia hereby
authorized to accept the certificate of
the principal of such school that the
student has followed the course and
passed successfully the required exam
nations, as emitting such student te
admission to the appropriate college
course without further preliminary ex-
animation; provided, that this shall
shall have furnished one or more stu
dents who have successfully passed the
ordinary entrance examination, and
provided, further. that if, on trial, the
students from such school shall prove
to be insuficiently prepared, this privi-
lege shall be promptly withdrawn from
such school.
2. That two scholarships with free
tuition and q single honorarium of $3.50
each be offered for competition between
students of the Public High Schools
and Private Academies in each con-
gressional district of the State, n to
be granted to that student who passes
the best entrance examination to the
Freshman Glass of the College of Arts
and Sciences, and the other to that stu
dent who passes the best entrance ex-
animation to the Freshman Glass of
Technology provided, that said stu
dents shall satisfy the president of their
bona fde intention to remain through
the college ourse
If the public authorities and people of
the State will perform their duty in
preparing the mea of preparatory in
strnction, the Board pledges its best
efforts to establish an institution for the
higher education Of our youth which
will meet all the manifold needs of
modern life and civilization.