We believe the plan, recently introduced at the University of Michigan, at Bowdoin, and at some other colleges, of admitting students upon the presentation of a diploma from any duly approved preparatory school, has been found to be very successful and satisfactory in its workings. It manifestly does away with many of the terrors and well known disadvantages of the ordinary entrance examination; and any means of reforming the evils of the present examination system is to be welcomed. It is to be hoped that Harvard will soon see her way to adoption, wholly or in part, of this or some similar scheme. The schools at Exeter, at Quincy, and many others of this kind could certainly be trusted to pass only suitable candidates into the college. The change would be a desirable one and an experiment certainly worth trying.
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The Freshman Race with Columbia.
