Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-27
FINAL SESSION HELD
Educators Association Elects
Officers and Adjourns.
LIST OF THE new LEADERS
Proceedings Which Preceded the
Meeting of Today.
AN ADDRESS ON CHARACTER
Prof. James D. Moffat Discusses
Omission of Religious Instruction.
Reception Last Evening.

Election of officers for the coming year
and a spirited debate on the adoption of
the report Of the national conference on
uniform entrance requirements in English
were the features of the final session of
the annual convention of the Association
of Colleges and Preparatory Schools of
the Middle States and Maryland, which
adjourned at 1:3O o'clock this afternoon.
James NJ. Green, Phi. D., of the State
Model School for Teachers. at Trenton,
n. j., was elected president of the as
ISOLATION. The new vice presidents are
Dean w. A. Wilbur of George Washing
ton University; S. J. Mcpherson, head
master of the Lawrenceville School,
N. j.; President c. A. Richmond of I'm
ion College. Schenectady, N. Y; Miss
Jane c. Brownell, Baldwin School. Bryn
Mawr, Pa; and A. H. Berlin, principal
of the Wilmington High School, Del;
secretary, Prof Arthur H. Quinn. Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
Pa; treasurer, Prof. John b. Kieffer,
Franklin and Marshall College, Lancas-
ter. Pa; executive committee, president.
secretary and treasurer, ex officio, James
G. Croswell, master of the Brearley
School, New York city; Dean Edward II.
Griffin, Johns Hopkins University, Balti-
more, Md; Prof. Louis Bevier, Rutgers
College, New Brunswick, N. j.. and
Thomas w. Sidwell, Friends School
Washington.
Uniform Entrance Requirements.
Prof Francis H. Stoddard of New York
University presented the report of the
committee on uniform entrance require
ments in English as adopted by the ma
tional conference on uniform entrance re-
quirements and which will be in force in
American colleges during the years 1913,
1914 and 1915.
Before the report was finally adopted
by the association there was much dis
cussion concerning it's merit, and several
speakers raised objections to the lists of
books that are prescribed for the pupils
to read before entering college.
The Old Testament, comprising at least
the chief narrative episodes in Genesis,
Exodus, Joshua. Judges. Samuel, Kings
and Daniel, together with the BOOKS of
and Aeneid should be read in English
translations of recognized literary ex-
cellence.
Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice"
Midsummer Nights Dream LAS You
Like It. Twelfth Night" Henry the
Fifth" Julius Caesar
Defoe's Robinson Crueso," part 1;
Goldsmith's Vicar Of Wakefield either
Scotts "Ivanhoe" or SCOTS Quentin
Durward," Hawthorne's House of the
Seven Cables" either Dickens David
Copperf1eld'' or Dickens Tale of Two
Cities Thackeray's Henry Esmond.
Mrs. Gaskelfs Crawford" George Ell
lots "Sias Mariner Stevensons Treas
ure Island
Books on Variety of Lines.
Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress part 1;
'"The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers in
the Spectator, "Franklins AutobiOg-
raphy" (condensed), Irving's Sketch
Book" Macaulays Essays on Lord
Give" and Warren Hastings" ThacK-
eray's English Humorists.'' selections
from Lincoln. including at least the two
inaugurals, the speeches in Independence
Hall and at Gettysburg, the last public
address and letter to Horace Greeley,
along with a brief memoir or estimate:
Parknan's Oregon Trail,'' either Thor
eau's Walden or Huxley's "Autobiog-
raphy' and selections from Lay Ser
MONS" including the addsesses on i'm
proving natural knowledge, liberal edu-
cation, and a piece of chalk: Stevenson's
finland Voyage and Travels With a
Donkey
Palgrave's Golden Treasury" (first
series), Books II and ILL., with especial
attention to Dryden, Collins, Gray, Cow
per, and Burns: Gray's ''Elegy in a Coun-
try Churchyard'' and Goldsmith's De
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