It is an interesting fact that the motive which actuated Harvard in devising and adopting its "new plan" of admission may be seen at work in other quarters. The motive was that of bridging the chasm between the College and the schools of the country which had not been making it primarily their business to fit their pupils for entering Harvard or any other college, but had been trying to give them a sound, general, if so-called "secondary" education. These boys, in many widely scattered parts of the country, were often boys of the sort that Harvard has felt itself qualified to serve: and the "new plan" has brought them to Harvard in constantly increasing numbers. Princeton, with the same object in view, has modified its admission requirements. Yale has been making recent changes for a like general purpose; and both Brown and Bowdoin have set themselves to meet the same conditions. The Bowdoin plan apparently most nearly resembles that of Harvard. Naturally each college works out its own method of solving its own problems. Even if they were all dealing with the matter as Harvard did, the notable point would be that they have all come in turn to a common recognition--that the college, with the constant purpose of providing "higher education," must achieve this purpose by methods adapted to changing needs.

The New England Association of School Superintendents recently met in Boston and discussed a report upon the relations of the secondary schools and the higher institutions of learning. The changes in admission requirements do not seem to have gone nearly far enough to satisfy the superintendents. "That the needed change has been so long in coming," says the report, "is largely the fault of the public school men, who have been content to accept the proposition that the college has an inherent right to direct the high school course." Many radical departures from even the newest plans of entrance requirements are proposed. If the changes come slowly it should at least be reassuring to the New England teachers that five Eastern colleges of the importance of those we have named have recognized the need themselves, and have taken the first steps towards meeting it.--ALUMNI BULLETIN.