The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-04

Boston, June B. 1905.-Just at this season of the year an ambitious young man in Siam, Denmark, Finland or Aus tralia, or any other part of the world where there are civilized people, may take the entrance examinations for an American college if he has given mo- tice of his desire to do so. Harvard University has a world wide system of examinations for its different depart ments. If the young man In Siam or Denmark purposes, for example, to be- come a dentist, he may answer with out leaving his home the questions which will determine his fitness to en- ter the Dental Schools of the Unf- versity; and if he successfully passes the test he will become a member of cosmopolitan student body, for the ex- aminations held in foreign parts have been instrumental in bringing to this American school pupils from all quar- ters of the globe.
 During the past year the classes have included not only Americans, but rep resentatives of Canada, Australia, Ger many, France, South Africa, Turkey China and other countries; and in the past decade the graduates have been of practically every known nationality Many of them have gone back to their own countries to install their dentists chairs in order to relieve the suffer- inEs due to aching molars, and to fur nish to those in need store teeth which will look as natural and do their work as we'll as the teeth provided by nature.
 During the half-century since the celebrated Doctor Evans established himself in Paris in the reign of Napo- leon III, America has supplied the world with dentists, and at the pres ent time there is hardly an important city on the other side of the Atlantic nn who received their education In this country.
 The examinations which the young men who would study dentistry in America may take, without leaving their distant homes represent an in teresting and generally unexpected swing in the educational pendulum. whereby in this instance the youth of Europe comes to America for instruc- ton and the youth of America feels no need of going to Europe. Ameri- can dentistry. in other words ments of medical science in compeli- Ing Europe to recognize its complete leadship and European examinations are a direct result of this preced- ence. The foreign examinations are conducted during the week in June when the college town of Cambridge fills up with the hosts of so-called EuD-treSnmen, making IHeiT IFSt pil- grimage to Harvard yard in order to prove that they know enough to be permitted to stay there.
 The tests are exactly similar where ever they are conducted. The ex- animation papers emanate from Cam bridge: the answers come back from Bonn or Honolulu or elsewhere, and In Cambridge they are finally passed up- on by the professors and assistants he The foreign candidate meantime waits at his own home for the notification of his success or failure.
 The reason for establishing these foreign examinations which have now been conducted for some years is found in the fact that young men in other countries who turn their eyes toward America for professional edu- cation are not, as a rule, the possessors of fat pocketbooks. and a journey to America to take examinations which there is, even under the best circum- stances, possibility of failure. is a serious, much-to- o-be-thought-about ad- venture. Even were success certain there would be tho expense of four months living in America before the school opens in the autumn.
 Because of the position of Germany as the admitted educational centre of the European continent, 1t is at Bonn that most of these continental stu dents gather for their American ex- aminations; for the far East Honolulu likewise affords natural centre. The foreign examination system more over is far more elastic than these established points might indicate; for it includes the possibility of exami- nations in parts of the world where they have neither been held before nor are likely to be held again. In such case it may happen that prospective student feels that a journey to the nearest established examination place is out of the question, and he applies for examination at his own home. for warding the application not to the Dental School. but to Harvard Univer- .sity, which manages all the examina- rtfons for its various departments. The application must he received early in May, then by correspondence with the educat tional authorities of the foreign city place is provided for