THE excellent article in the last Graduates' Magazine by Mr. Adams and Professor Goodwin on "Education in the Preparatory Schools," exemplifies clearly the present false relation between the schools and the colleges. The college has been forced for its own good to assume a certain position, to set a certain standard of admission and to admit to its curriculum only such students as approximately approach this standard. It has had to dictate to the schools the kind and amount of work that must be accomplished by their pupils to it them for college work. Such a condition of affairs is hurtful to the best interests of the community, for it results in a forced and unnatural growth of a student's mental faculties. Schools then aim to prepare pupils with the object only of getting them into college. No matter how insufficient may be their elementary teaching or how limited and inadequate the practical education obtained from it, provided that sufficient knowledge is crammed into them to enable them to pass, by written examinations the requirements of the college, their mission is ended. This is a wrong state of affairs. On the contrary, instead of the college dictating to the schools what they shall do it should be, in a certain sense, the reverse. The schools should so educate their pupils that, when the proper time comes, they will be able easily and naturally to enter college. There should be such a constant and even growth in preparatory education that college should follow naturally after the schools and students be fitted to enter without the necessity of being strictly questioned as to their fitness. There should be a natural sequence. Until this natural sequence comes there must be this false relation between the college and the preparatory schools.