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7. It will so improve the first two years of undergraduate work that 

 students will be much better prepared to take up courses leading to 

 professional and graduate pursuits in their junior year. And this is 

 what many educators, together with the National Association of State 

 Universities, wish to bring about. 



Several objections to this plan are already on the reader's lips. It 

 will make the doctorate equivocal. It will remove the professor from 

 the freshman, who really needs him most. Nobody will try for such a 

 doctorate. Or, maybe the opposite; every senior anxious to get a job 

 will rush into this line, and there will be no candidates for research. 

 With all the younger students under young men, discipline will become 

 lax, A student only five years beyond his freshman days can not 

 teach freshmen. To all these and many more, I think, good answer 

 may be given. In the meantime, if we admit that some project for 

 training college teachers is urgently needed, this one recommends itself 

 to trial because it can be put fairly well to the test without cost, without 

 change of curriculum, and, if necessary for prudence's sake, in only 

 one department. 



