In the educational system of the state of Michigan, there isone feature which bears a striking resemblance to the preparatory school system of Germany. We refer to the admission of gradautes from certain preparatory schools to the University of Michigan without examination. The university was orginally under the control of the state of Michigan and from this cause, at least in part, the extremely desirable state of affairs has arisen that the university should be supplementary to the more advanced public schools. The regulations of the university state that once each year a committee of the faculty shall visit any public high school of Michigan, on request of its school board, and report the result of its examination to the faculty. If this examination shows that the courses of study in the visited school embrace all the subjects required for admission to the university, and that the instructors are competent to give a thorough preparation in those branches, all graduates from the school are admitted to the freshman class of the university upon presentation of their diplomas, within three months after graduation.

This system has been at work for five or six years, and is said to have produced most satisfactory results. It is greatly to be regretted that the other great American universities have been unable to follow this unique example set by the University of Michitgan, for the most prominent authorities on educational matters in this country are of opinion that it is only a national preparatory school system, intimately connected with the prominent universities, such as is exemplified in the German gymnasia, that will bring American univeristies to that unequalled state of excellence to which German universities have attained.