The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-28

from remote ones. By refusing to ad- init on certificate we lose some good boys who are afraid to stand an exam ination; but as rule, the boy who is afraid to stand an examination on a subject where he has been well taught is better fitted for the protection of small college than the liberty of a large one.
 The subjects of our examination must be such as to prove whether the student can or cannot pursue our courses to advantage. We must have enough mathematics to test the power of precise thought and enough lan- guage to test the power of precise ex- pression. We cannot allow other sub jects to be substituted for these merely because we believe that it is good thing to have these other subjects taught in the schools. In this respect our policy has differed radically from that of Harvard. When the question has come up of introducing music or woodworking among the entrance re- quirements. the question with Harvard has been mainly, How far does the college dssire to encourage the teach ing of music and of woodworking in our high schools? The question with Yale, on the other hand, has been, can student who is deficient in grammar be properly admitted to the college be- l cause he knows music? Can a stu- dent who is deficient in certain parts of his algebra properly be admitted to Casa al 6n dafs- stands woodworking?
 On account of this difference in view | Harvard has gone rapidly in the in-' | troduction of alternative entrance re- | quirements, while we have gone slow fly. Our scientific school has not found that the submission of note books and experiments, or the exami- nations which could be given in vari- ous forms of descriptive science, could | well be made a substitute for mathe- nautical theory. Our academical de- partment has introduced modern lan- l guages as substitutes for ancient lan- guages only when they could be made real substitutes. We accept French in stead of Greek only when it is a real equivalent to Greek. Whatever lam guage a boy presents, we insist that his knowledge of it should be precise. We do not let general information take the place of a knowledge of grammar. l It has been charged by critics of the old system of classical study that Greek has been a college fetich. This certainly has not been the view at Yale. We required Greek in the past not because we worshipped Greek, but 4 because in times past the Greek teach Eers in the schools were the ones who l were best able to insist on certain kinds of training which we thought our l students needed. Some schools now have French teachers who can give this same kind of training in French. l We are ready to accept the boys from those. schools with French instead of Greek. To do this is not a departure from our old principles but a continu- ation of it. The. majority of French teachers are as yet unable to meet our requirements regarding French. Hence the majority of pupils who try to sub stitute French for Greek fail. s
 It is probable that as more teachers of modern languages become acquaint- ed with the requirements of the Yale examination we shall get a larger number of freshmen who prepare in modern languages instead of Greek. But this" will not prove that we have changed our standard. It will prove that the schools have changed theirs.
 We shall probably continue to hold separate examinations instead of join- ing with other colleges. There is enough to make a strong argument for those who wish our separate examina- tions continued. The Harvard paper seeks to test knowledge; the Yale pa, per seeks to test accuracy. The Har- yard examination tries to find how well a boy has done his work in school; the Yale examination tries to find how
 we'll the boy is going to be able to do his work in college. The Middle States system Is intermediate between the Harvard and the Yale systems in these respects, and 1t is possible that in the near future we may all come together on this meridian line. We shall certain. ly do it whenever the great majority of the secondary school teachers de hl' but lllt IeoulIS Ul CUTISS- pondence given in the report of the dean of Yale college indicate that the
 demand for separate papers is stronger
 than the demand for one consolidated
 paper. There is. large number of
 school teachers who find the accuracy
 incident to the Yale method of exami-
 nation a great help in resisting certain
 evils which the widening of school courses during late years has brought
 with it.
 Most of the matters affecting the diff
 ferent departments are fully treated in
 the reports of their several heads.
 The Divinity school is the one which
 will suffer the most marked change