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lires for the sake of the students, that mark the best traditions of the 

 Christian college. There is nothing' proposed or carried out in oiir 

 work that does not articulate perfectly with real university work- 

 mark my expression witli real university work! For it must be 

 remembered that our universities in their present variedly undevel 

 oped state, receive in their undergraduate courses students of exactly 

 the same grade as those coming to Pomona or other real colleges 

 with equally rigorous entrance requirements. Whether the univer- 

 sity under university conditions is able to do true college work, 

 is a very debatable question, and one not germane to the point at 

 issue here. I have repeatedly made the statement, and have heard it 

 made also by some of our best university men, that coming up through 

 the well organized basic system used with such splendid effect at 

 Pomona, together with this final chance at "junior research," stu- 

 dents could be broadly fitted for graduate work at our American 

 universities in real n>/ir<'rxiti/ irork who would give as fine results 

 in certain lines at least, as students from any other possible sources, 

 and this has worked out most conclusively in actual practice. Some 

 of these considerations are of unusually great moment at Pomona, 

 where, as recently shown by President Blaisdell some sixty-eight 

 per cent, of our graduates are now "going on" into advanced train- 

 ing. 



Our method of teaching in college biology has been one as free as 

 possible from mechanical and minutely prescribed routine, rich in 

 laboratory and field work, full of first-hand training and of personal 

 discussion and guidance, in every phase of the work, for every stu- 

 dent. This opens up that higher and better college possibility of 

 handling students, not in groups, en masse, by the ordinary "class" 

 system, but as individuals, each for his own sake, and with methods 

 adapted to his own peculiar needs and capacities, and by this inviting 

 avenue we shall pass onward and upward to some of the greatest 

 possibilities in modern education. Finally, among our lines of 

 "junior research," we have included a great deal of work in limited 

 aspects of comparative anatomy which invariably furnishes great 

 treasures of deep interest to all of our students, numerous simpler 

 possibilities in ecology, life histories, economic relations, faunal, 

 floral, and distributional studies, many of these being capable of the 

 finest possible treatment at the hands of advanced college students 



