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the elementary schools, and in the first two years of the high school 

 to prepare pupils for life work. 



D. H. Hill thought it is not entirely a question of what preparation 

 the college would like to have its entering pupils receive, but what 

 the high schools are prepared to do. He believed that for a time the 

 colleges must accept an approximation of what might be considered 

 the ideal college entrance preparation, and that possibly it might 

 be well to admit students to the agricultural courses on a lower basis 

 than to the engineering and other more technical courses, owing to 

 the fact that the country schools are not as well prepared to give 

 college entrance work as the city schools, and to his belief that young 

 men coming from the countiy are able to work harder than those com- 

 ing from the city and thus to reach the bachelor's degree standard in 

 four years even if they start with a low^er grade than do the city boys. 



The pajjer was further discussed by Brown Ayres, wdio empha- 

 sized the desirability of getting students for the agricultural courses 

 from classical preparatory schools; by W. M. Hays, who referred 

 to the influence of the consolidated school in keeping students in 

 school longer and thus giving them a greater amount of classical 

 work; by Howard Edwards, who had found it desirable to give 

 college credits for some high-school work in cases where students 

 were able to present surplus units in one line of work and were defi- 

 cient in others; and by A. R. Hill, who believed that when a young 

 man is able to do college work he should be admitted without much 

 reference to formal credits. President Hill also called attention to 

 the fact that it is difficult to get high schools to present more than 

 one year of well-taught agriculture for college entrance, and sug- 

 gested that the agricultural colleges could aid the movement for the 

 better teaching of agriculture in secondary schools by preparing out- 

 lines and helping to standardize the work in such schools. 



xV discussion of the correlation of secondary and short courses 

 with the four years' course was presented in a paper by D. J. Crosby, 

 who pointed out the fact that these courses were established primarily 

 to prepare young men for the business of farming, and not for col- 

 lege entrance, but maintained that in all such courses opportunities 

 for college entrance preparation should be afforded to students hav- 

 ing the ambition, the intellectual, qualifications, and the means to 

 pursue a college course. For such students, he maintained, there 

 should be no gap between the end of the secondary or short course 

 and the college course, such as is found in schools offering a three- 

 vear severely technical agricultural course and an intermediate year 

 of academic work for college entrance. Pie maintained also that 

 schools having a six-months year should endeavor to provide their 

 students with smnmer vacation problems to be w^orked out on the 

 farm, to be regularly reported upon at the opening of the succeeding 



