In order to elevate the standard of college entrance examinations, fourteen New England colleges (including Harvard and Yale) have now joined the Commission on Admission Examinations. The commission, which will comprise one faculty member from each college, has still another object in view-the establishment of a system by which the requirements for admission will be more uniform than they are at present. The need of which has been felt by many young men who have been compelled to go to preparatory schools which made a specialty of fitting for some college other than the one they wished to enter. Thus a good deal of the regular school work was unnecessary, and had to be made up by extra work in other studies. So far the commission has accomplished one good result, at least, by making the requirements for English literature uniform in all the fourteen colleges. The commission now contemplates raising the requirements in modern languages, and should the plan succeed, all the colleges interested would probably adopt the same standard. Similarity in entrance examinations is not only impossible but undesirable, yet a certain uniformity will undoubtedly tend to strengthen the bonds between the various colleges and facilitate greatly the preparatory work of many young men.
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PROPERTY FOR HARVARD COLLEGE.
