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schools; and the Association agrees with the Society in thinking 

 it indispensable that the methods of instruction should invaiiably 

 he demonstrative.' 



" Samuei. F. Clarke, Williams College. 



" William G. Farlow, Harvard University. 



" George L. Goodale, Harvard University. 



" George Macloskie, College of New Jersev. 



" William North Rice, Wesleyan University. 



" Hexrv Fairfield Osborn, College of New Jersey. 



" William T. Sedgwick, Mass. Institute of Technology. 



" Sidney I. Smith, Yale University. 



" C. O. Whitman, Clark University." 



Answers to this circular were not solicited ; but information has 

 come to us from several of the New England Colleges showing 

 that the matter has received the serious consideration of the several 

 Faculties. All of the Colleges from which we have heard are at 

 least unwilling to say they will not make the change in a few years, 

 and two of the Colleges have taken definite steps in tliis direction. 

 The}' all believe that soinething ought to be done. One wishes 

 to see what certain other Colleges will do ; another has made 

 sufficient changes this \ear, but may be willing to move in this 

 direction another year. A third has announced in its Catalogue 

 that hereafter an examination in Natural Science will form one of 

 the requisites for admission to the scientific course. At still an- 

 other College, the ofl'er is made in its Catalogue to receive men 

 into advanced standing in Science who can pass special examina- 

 tions re([uisite for those courses. 



Prof. S. F. Clarke read a paper at the sixth annual nieeting 

 of the New England Association of Colleges and Prepaiatory 

 Schools, entitled, "Natural Science as a Recjuisite for Admission 

 to College." One of the facts stated in that paper is worth men- 

 tioning here. The writer was one of a committee of three which 

 sent a circular letter to one hundred of the schools from which 

 W^illiams College has received students in the last four years, ask- 

 ing them if they could prepare their students on the basis of a 

 Natural Science recpiisiteby 1S93, or later. Of the ninety answers 

 received, tliirty-two are from Massachusetts, twenty-six are from 

 New York, and the others are from all the other New England 



