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ie still thought to indicate a definite degree of mental growth and moral 

 strength ! 



The situation, therefore, calls at once for examination reform, 

 but it calls also for far more : we must harmonize under a sufficiently 

 large ideal the various phases of developmental education. The ele- 

 mentary school, the secondary school, the college, have not yet been 

 viewed and organized as essentially a single educational institution. 

 Pending and in aid of their reorganization on this basis, I urge the col- 

 leges to emphasize the vital, not the mechanical, side of preparatory 

 teaching"; to establish fixedly no machinery that may impede the crea- 

 tion of a system subtly adapted to the individual. Our sore need now 

 is of an intellect that shall conceive as a single whole the progression 

 from childhood to maturity; that shall embody this progression in a 

 connected series of educational institutions, from which every false, 

 every mechanical, every pedantic test and motive shall have disappeared. 

 Throughout, the system must be dominated by the effort to organize 

 the child in effective harmony with his environment — it must aim at 

 nothing else; it must be satisfied with nothing less. 



