An article in the Advertiser says: "The Ohio College Association has been re-organized. Instead of including every 'college' with a charter, the new association limits its membership to colleges which require a preparatory course, including Greek and plane geometry, and give a degree only to students who have taken a four year's course, in which a certain required amount of work is done." By this change from the original plan more than half of the so-called colleges of the State are barred from admittance to the new association. Thus the line is distinctly drawn between these better institutions and those that are mere high schools with long names. Even now the State contains seventeen institutions eligible to membership. It seems about time that some such move should be made. The country is overrun with little "colleges" and "universities" which are not known beyond a radius of ten miles. These give the degree of bachelor of arts to men and women, many of whom have received less of a liberal education than our preparatory schools offer. This is wholly wrong, as this title or degree is apparently of equal value with those given to graduates of the best colleges. It only needs a little investigation to find out how much these are worth; but one has not always the time to take this trouble and must take it for granted that the holder of such a degree is a well educated man.

Any move which tends to elevate the standard of colleges and give some definite value to the degrees conferred is to be hailed with pleasure by all college men. This is especially true in a country like the United States where there are no national universities recognized as such, as are the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in England. This move is in a line with the move of the Philological Society towards the better regulation of all college degrees and should be followed by the other States.