The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-07-01
NEW UNIVERSITY SCHOOL.


Fox.
Mr.. George l.. Fox, who for long
term of years has been rector of Hop
kins Grammar school, and who has
just resigned from that position, has
established in New Haven a college
preparatory school, the University
school.
uation in preparing boys for Yale and
other colleges. For three years he was
very busy and successful as q private
tutor in New Haven. Then he took
charge of the classical department in
the Eillhouse High school in this city,
and remained in that position till 1885,
during which time six classes were full
ly prepared for Yale college. All these
made an excellent record in the exam
nations, and one whole class was adj
mitted without conditions. OF these
thirty Eight pupils three became vale
dictorians Of their classes at Yale:
Prof. Gustave F. Gruener, Yale "a:
Thomas III. Curtis, Yale '87; William
A. McQuaid, Yale $50.
Mr.. Fox's success in the Hillhouse
High school led to his election as rec
tor of the Hopkins Grammar school in
1885,
During fifteen years of his admins
tration at Hopkins two hundred and
fifty were graduated, ready to enter
college or Scientific school. One hun
dred and seventeen Of these graduates
took the examinations for admission to
Yale college, and forty per cent. of
these were admitted at the June exam
nations "clear'-viz., without condi-
lions. In the chief Latin subject, YER
gill over ninety per cent. passed with
out conditions, and in the chief Greek
subject, Homer, eighty-four per cent.
In four instances, boys who had failed
to obtain preliminary paper the pre-
ceding year, after spending a year at
Hopkins passed CLEAR" at the June
examinations.
Mr.. Fox is especially interested to
have boys at the age Of fifteen or six
teen, who have not realized the pleas
ures and the possibilities of the intel
lectual life. His experience of the last
six years has led him to the firm con-
viction that earnest and diligent boys
can be prepared for college thoroughly,
without injury to health, in three years,
especially if little work be done in the
long summer vacation, which is now
entirely wasted.
1t is now eminently desirable that
most boys should enter college before
they are nineteen, owing to the in
creased demands of the professional
schools. 1t is more feasible in most
cases to shorten the time of prepara-
ton by a year than to shorten the
length of the college course to three
years, as has been proposed. In this
way a boy may enter upon the study Of
his profession soon after he is twenty
two.
The aim of the University school will
be to advance a boy according to his
capability for progress, and to enable
him, if he is willing to work, to COM
plete his preparation for college in
three years. Careful supervision will
be maintained over the boys and the
endeavor will be made to stimulate
them to faithful work
In the belief that college student
before entering college, in his college
course, should be instructed in matters
pertaining to citizenship, Mr.. Fox will
endeavor to- see that his pupils enter
college with fair knowledge of the
national, state and city governments,
though this is not required for admis
sion.
The fall term of the University school
will open Thursday, September rs, 1901.
Mr. Fox will be ready to make ar
engagements with the parents Of college
students to act the part of an Oxford
tutor in supervision of their studies.
The importance and value Of such SER
vice is well known in the English uni
versties.
In a quarter of a century Mr.. Fox
has seen notable instances where the
failure of a student to graduate with
his class might have been avoided If eff
ficient counsel and supervision had been
given in time and at critical moments.
In the first two years especially does
this happen. Coming from the shell
tered life of school to the freedom of
the college, some young men are de-
moralized by the avocations, the dis
fractions and the attractions Of college
life so that, before they realize it, the
misfortune of compulsory retirement
from college comes upon them. In
these cases there should be some one
whose special duty it is to note the first
tendency to serious decline, to arrest the
downward tendency, if possible, and by
friendly counsel and influence to tide
him over the critical period, till he has
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