NEW ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS.

The new scheme for admission examinations, details of which are given on another page, provides an adequate remedy for what has come to be a serious evil. The requirements for admission at the present time are of such a nature as to practically necessitate a school course expressly planned for the Harvard examinations. This involves great hardship for many boys in high schools which necessarily shape their courses of study for the great majority who have no idea of going to college. In short, as a result of the specialized character of the preparation for college, numbers of desirable boys have been excluded from entering the University. This state of things will be remedied by the new plan, which prepares a straight way into the College for every student who has creditably completed a four year high-school course. Under the present admission requirements, practically all the necessary work must be done in the last two years. The consequence is that the sub-freshman is frequently forced to carry six or seven studies. The new plan relieves this congestion by limiting the number of examinations to four.

The new scheme will increase the representation in College from the country at large. It will serve to bring the University in closer touch with the whole public school system, and should prove a benefit both to the high schools and to Harvard.