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such subjects as the president or principal may recommend, 

 and in no other subjects: that all other candidates be required 

 to pass the entrance examinations. 



I recommend that credit be given any candidate presenting 

 certificate from the College Entrance Examination Board in 

 those subjects in which he or she has been examined and 

 passed and in no other. 



I recommend that the certificate privilege be taken away at 

 any time from any institutions whose pupils may continue to 

 prove incapable of carrying on the work of the college. 



I have presented at some length this tentative schedule. It 

 embraces many subjects, but no more than are presented by 

 our best institutions on the mainland. Some of these sub- 

 jects may be omitted : others may be added. Different rating 

 of many of the subjects might be made. I present the list 

 with the ratings as a basis for further consideration. 



Given a schedule like the one outlined or any other as ex- 

 plicit, the various schools of the Territory would know what 

 to do and would at once fashion their courses of study to meet 

 the requirements. Perhaps the requirement for admission as 

 outlined may seem too hard. But with provisi*ons made for 

 special students 1 do not believe them excessive, and I do 

 believe that the new college will more quickly get results by 

 setting at the start a high standard and increasing this as time 

 goes on until it will be second to none. 



The secondary schools will meet the standard set by the 

 college. If that standard is low, the standard of our public 

 schools will decline, for I hold it almost an axiom, that the 

 highest public institution in any State or Territory will shape 

 the standard of all the secondary schools to meet its require- 

 ments. We have the right to demand of this new institution 

 that it rank with the best. The number of students at the 

 start may be small, but that matters not. The ultimate good 

 of the whole Territory should determine the policy. And to 

 my mind the standard of admission needs to be high, that 

 results may be obtained. A slip-shod beginning with low 

 entrance requirements and a snap course, accommodating all 

 who wish to enter, will make the college unworthy the name 

 and will turn out young men and young women with a thin 

 veneer of information that will not bear the test of the hard- 

 headed, horse sense business world of today. 



If the list of subjects presented seem altogether too long and 

 too varied, particularly the elective couse, consider this : The 

 mere mention of these courses on the list of requirements 

 would indicate to the secondary schools the immense range of 

 subjects that can be taught in our secondary schools. No 

 school could begin to teach all. All schools could teach some 

 and probably more than they now do. The day is past that 

 the school schedule follows absolute and fixed lines. Local. 



