The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-09-04
Valley city High
As a College Pre-
pdrdt0ry School

Many people do not know all thu
kinks Of college preparation, and how
high schools and colleges work to
gether. Some people are apt to think
that college preparation consists Of 8
certain course Of very difficult study
completed according to certain stand
ard Of scholarship. AS a corollary tc
this idea they believe that If one OF
two graduates did not fit the require
ments of certain college or univer
sity that the high school was neces
sarily at fault, when as matter Of
fact it may or may not be. 1t Is GER
tainly virtue of a high school that
all its students are not fitted for col
lege. 1t might be a virtue of many
colleges if they could see fit to accept
any student that is well prepared fol-
vocation according to accepted
standards of the high school. In
other words the crime that some we'll
prepared high school graduates can.
not be admitted to college, as upon the
shoulders of the college, and should
not be regarded as a stigma to the
high school which Is fighting the bat.
tie Of the many who never go to col.
lege as we'll as Of the few who do 60.
Accredited high schools are those
whose graduates are admitted without
examination, to colleges 10 which they
are accredited; provided the applicant
has pursued the proper high school
courses.
Requirement for admission to a
given college department Is somewhat
different in different college,; also
the same college makes different re-
quirements for entrance to it's differ
ent departments.
All good high schools not only offer
enough subjects to prepare for the
various departments Of the various
colleges, but they offer other subjects
suitable to those who cannot 60 to
college. Any one graduate does not
pursue half of the courses offered by
the school. ..
This means that all subjects in even
accredited high schools necessarily
cannot be accepted as college prepar-
alton, and work that is acceptable as
a preparation for one course is not
necessarily the combination desired
for other cause No large college &C.
cepts any and all work of any high
school; they accept only such as is
preparatory to the department Of col.
lege the applicant desires to enter.
Consequently, both the college and
the college course one is preparing for
should be known, to properly shape
his high school course.
Now Valley City's high school is an
accredited school. Not only is it
state high school and accredited, there
fore, to our own state university but
it Is an accredited school in the North
Central Association, an association Of
the best colleges and high schools in
the Mississippi valley. Not only do
the colleges of this association admit
our students as indicated above, but
any college that admits
without examination will do
the same for our school. rhe follow
ing extract from Dean William H.
Butts, of Michigan University shows
how they regard us and is typical of
the good things that frequently are
privately but do not find
publication. I'VE hope to see more of
your bright young men next year as
your graduates do excellent work with
U.S." ......
It must not be understood that our
high school is merely college pre-
paratory school, tho it offers practi-
cally as good opportunities for college
as any of the large cities,
and a very unusual per cent Of the
graduates pursue higher work. But it
hopes ever to lay ample stress upon
the needs Of the student who never
will go to college and something may
be said about such student later. Her
courses are of course Of such great
variety that one can prepare for prac-
tically any course in any college. But
here, as in any good high school in the
country, courses must be shaped for
the use to be made Of them.
A course made up Of English, 8
units; Latin 4; German 2; Mathemat-
les (not arithmetic) 3; History 2; and
Science 2, will secure entrance into
any course; and If one
doesn't know what his plans are to be
such course, tho strenuous would
make the student sure Of fitting in al
most anywhere in college. BY know
ing future plans however, the high
school courses may be more appro-
priately selected and made more sat
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