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Preparatory Course. Circulars were sent to all the Institutions 

 within that area catalogued, in the latest Report of the Commis- 

 sioner of Education, as Colleges or Scientific Schools, and also 

 to the Academies and High Schools catalogued in the same 

 Report as having respectively six or more teachers, asking for 

 catalogues or statements of courses of study. The Institutions 

 catalogued as Colleges or as Scientific Schools vary considerably 

 in grade; but it was deemed best to follow the classification 

 given in the report of tlie Commissioner of Education, rather 

 than to exercise a personal judgment in the case of individual 

 Institutions. The limitation of the inquiry, in legard to Acad- 

 emies and High Schools, to those having a Faculty of not less 

 than six instructors, was intended as a rough way of eliminating 

 very small and unimportant schools. A number of the High 

 Schools and Academies from wliich information was received, 

 proved to be not Preparatory Schools for College at all, and are 

 accordingly not counted in the following statistics. The answers 

 received from a few schools were so vague as not to admit of 

 tabulation. Institutions having a course of study of more than 

 four years, of which the last four years correspond approximately 

 to the Collegiate Course, and the previous year or years to the 

 closing part of the Preparatory Course, are counted in the follow- 

 ing statistics both as Colleges and as Preparatory Schools. 



Of sixty-nine Colleges from which answers have been received, 

 only eighteen now require vSciencc for admission to the Course 

 for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts. These are Howard Univer- 

 sity, Baltimore City College, Johns Hopkins University, Western 

 Maryland College, Boston University, Harvard University, Alfred 

 University, Wells College, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, 

 College of the City of New York, Manhattan College, Syracuse 

 University, Lebanon Valley College, Geneva College, Mononga- 

 hela College, Franklin and ]Marshall College, Allegheny College, 

 Swarthmore College. 



Eleven other Colleges recognize the place of Science in the 

 pre-collegiate portion of the educational course, by requiring it 

 for admission to Scientific Courses, by allowing it as an optional 

 subject in the examination for admission, or by announcing it as a 

 prospective requirement. These are Wesleyan University, Smith 

 College, Williams College, Dartmouth College, Colgate Univer- 



