The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-03-15
CONFORMITY URGED
BY PRIN. THOMPSON
Declares Colleges Should Adj
Just Themselves to
High School.
STUDENTS ENTRANCE
To a Number of High Institu-
tions Is Difficult Matter,
He Ayers.

Realizing that greater conformity
should exist between the high schools
of the state and the colleges of the
whole country, the teachers and men,
bers Of the Indiana State Science
Association have been vainly trying to
reverse the present situation which
provides that the high schools should
adjust themselves 10 the betterment
of the colleges. According to promot-
ers of a greater uniformity between
these two institutions of learning, it
is insisted that the colleges cease to
insist upon requirements that tend to
hamper the high schools duty to the
community.
The troubled situation lies in the
fact that some colleges require studies
that others do not thus making it
difficult for some students to enter the
higher institutions even though their
education is based solely on the COM
pletion of a wellplanned high school
course. According to Principal ].
F. Thompson of the local high school,
the colleges are adjusting themselves
to only twenty per cent of the local
graduates. This condition he stated
further makes it hard for some be-
cause every student is not benefited
by the several sciences taught in the
school.
At a science meeting in which DR.
Duff Of Purdue, was speaking a few
weeks ago. Principal Thompson stated
that words were quoted to the effect
eff / were asked. should physics be
taught in the high schools, I would
say no." This is the state of affairs
today, stated Mr.. Thompson and their
relations will have to be brought to
greater uniformity should more than
twenty per cent of high school grad
yates desire to enter college, Their
relations of the two should exist as do
those of the Garfield and local high
school
Notwithstanding recent changes in |
the direction of uniformity, great var- |
ETY. in requirements is still found. |
Prof Thompson said. English is about |
the only regularly required subject |
Curious contradictions appear in the |
several hundred institutions examined |
Certain subjects are considered so i'm |
portant by some colleges that they re-
quire them, while other colleges will
not even accept them. For admission
to the A. B. course it is said there are
four colleges that give no credit for
science, and four that give credit for
only half a year of it. while, on the
other hand, 81 colleges prescribe one
full year Of science.
improvements Noted.
Some real improvements in the rela-
ton of high school and college are no.
ted, however, showing that these two
important agencies in education are
more willing to help each other than
they have been in the past. Many col.
leges now accept various practical
subjects for admission of the 203 col
aeges OF liberal arts examined, 81 rec
Ognized shopwork, 50 commercial
branches, 80 agriculture, and 10
household science" as subjects of ad-
mission. There is a large and growing
list of colleges that will accept for en-
trance any subject that an approved
high school counts toward graduation
That admission to college should be
based solely on the completion of
well-planned high school course; that
the high school should be given free
play, so that it may adapt it's work to
the needs of the community; and that
the colleges must keep the door open
to the youthful seeker after a college
education who is animated by a strong
dinner purpose in the face of obstacles
regardless of whether he has fulfilled
the old-fashioned formal requirement
or mot; are some of the conclusions
drawn by Mr.. Thompson as to the mu- [
tualaduty of school and college.