The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-29

This fall is proving record breaker
in the number of young men and wo-
men sent to college from the Scranton
High school, and anyone looking at
the list of graduates admitted to the
higher universities can experience no
doubt whatever as to the status of
this city's leading educational insti-
tuition. Harvard, Princeton, Cornell.
Lafayette and Dickinson, all claim
their quota, and Smith college re-
ceives one of the young lady members
Of the class of 1900.
The two Dickinson candidates are
both alumni, They are Thomas Dona-
hoe, of the Scranton Truth, and Wal
ter Shantz, of the class of '9S Both
of these young men viii leave the city
Monday for Carlisle, and there enter
the Dickinson Law school.
Several of the young men who are
entering college, are allowed to begin
their course of study without being
compelled to pass any examination,
their High School certificates, signed
by Principal Grant and the teachers
in charge of their High School instruc-
tion, being considered sufficient quail
ficatons.
Harvard, Yale and Princeton appli-
cants must undergo a severe examina-
ton, but none of the other large uni
versities demand any qualification of
this nature. The fact that a High
school certificate will admit a student
to universities of the standing of Cor
nell, University of Pennsylvania, La
fayette, Lehigh and others, shows in
a measure the status attained by the
school and establishes the fact that
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stitutions in the state.
WHERE THEY GO.
Wayland d. Gates, salutatorian of
last years class. passed the Princeton
examinations, but has entered Hills
dale university, Michigan. James l..
Matteson, also of the class of 1900 will
enter the classical course at Princeton.
John L. Coolidge enters Lafayette
on certificate, and John A. Horan
is another Scranton lad who is a fresh
man at the Easton university. Will l..
Acker Bernard Kelly and Ralph c.
Snowden, of last years class. are all
at Ithaca, as Cornell freshmen, and
Miss Anna Russ, one of the honor
graduates of 90, will he one of the
students at Smith college.
William =. Grant, son of Princi-
pal Grant, and who graduated at the
High School last year, has passed the
Harvard exams, and ia now at Cam
bridge. Mr.. Grant is the first grad
uate of the new High School who un-
detalies a course at the oldest univer-
sity in the country.
The University of Pennsylvania has
gained no new recruits this year, but
there is a large percentage of Scran-
ton boys scattered through the coll
lege proper and the medical and law
schools. Among them are: Charles
Falkowsky, Albert Moses, Bernard
Wormser, John Beamish, Charles Gea-
ry, G. George Spoerl.
Several of this years graduates of
the High School returned and are TAX
ing a postgraduate course, prior to
leaving for college next year. Among
| these are Carl Ziegler, last years vale
dictorian, who will enter Lafayette in
1901 and Norwood Pitcher, a prospec-
| tive Yale student.
RAISING STANDARD.
The grade of college work is rising
| every year. and the requirements
growing stricter and therefore it Is
| a matter for the city to be proud of
| that so many High school students
| have been admitted to these universi-
| ties. AS an illustration of the plane
| to which the colleges are aspiring, It
| may be mentioned that the Harvard
| authorities are now endeaVoring to
| bring about material change in the
| law school requirements and that 1t
| is already almost an established fact
| that within year or so no one other
| than graduate of some college will
| be admitted to the legal department.
| \ similar change is to be made in
| the medical school, and It is thought
| that this mode of requirements will
| be adopted by the universities
| throughout the country and made the
| standard in the law, medical and theo-
| logical schools.
In this way" said Principal Grant,
| of the High school yesterday, "it is
| thought that the so-called learned pro-
| fessisons will be made open to learned
men, and learned men only"