Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-31

cstional competition as in various southern and western states. The great variation in educational eifcien- cy that now exists is shown to be unnecessary and Wasteful. It is neith- CT necessary nor desirable that some states should spend only one-eighth as much as others per capita for educa- ton, have only half as long a school year, enroll only half as large pro- portion Of their school children. aud spend only one-fifth as much in edU- eating each teacher. Recent educa- tional legislation shows a promise of improvement. but a broader view of the problems involved is imperative.
 A better adjustment is developing between the college and the high schools Many universities and col leges have advanced within ten years
 from competing with high schools, while other institutions, like Harvard, have broadened their entrance re- quirements so that they can be met by the average good high school. These changes help the whole educa- tional system. so that in Virginia. for example, there are now ten times as many four year high schools as there were in 1905. Unnecessary institu- tions. however, continue to be devel- oped for personal local and denomi- national reasons, to the deterioration of educational standards and the NJ h. drawal of support from necessary and worthy institutions. Students who should turn toward industrial train ing are defected elsewhere through advertisements, scholarships. and oth- CT stipends. to the waste of their abil- ities and of public funds.
 The increase in the number and size of postgraduate scbools-fifty per cent in the last decade and ten fold in the last thirty years-has been much greater than the natural need. Poor and pretentious graduate schools, conducted with the funds of undergraduate colleges and attended chiefly by subsidized students, often merely impair the appreciation of undergraduate teaching and hamper real research, through the multiplica- ton of mechanical seminars. disserta. tions, ana the like. The care and eX- pense of a good graduate school can be borne only by few large univer- sities.
 flOLSSSl lRldl tNuCdllOAls dloDs AS hampered by an enormous duplication Of facilities, resulting in great finan- cial waste, and often in a competi- ton in low entrance requirements and poor instruction. Some states have four, five, seven, and nine schools Of engineering each; New York city alone has six, and Pennsylvania has thirteen. five of these having less than forty students each. Fortunately, the engineering societies and the Founda- ton are now cooperating to bring about an ellnination through insist ence upon proper standards.
 bulletin Of the Foundation, m 1910, described every one of the one hundred and sixty medical schools in the United States and suggested d general plan of reform. The present report lists twenty-two unworthy med ical schools that. have passed out of existence during the last year, unable to stand the light of publicity. An equal number Of unworthy institutions have made great advances.
 In legal education there is an i'm provement in instruction and an in- creasing emphasis on better stand ards by authoritative bodies like the American Bar Association, but poor schools still turn out three times as many lawyers as the country needs, and one half Of our states have no ad- eQuate educational requirement for admission to the bar. The miscarriage of justice, the laws delays, the cost of litigation, public disregard of law and disrespect for the judiciary, all proceed in no small degree from this multiplication of alltrained lawyers The bar is peculiarly responsible since it alone of ali professions prac- tically fixes it's own requirements for admission to practice.