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sity, Lafayette College, Ursinus College, Pennsylvania College, 

 Haverford College, Westminster College, Universitv of Penn- 

 sylvania. 



The remaining forty Colleges aflbrd no recognition whatever 

 of the place of Science in the pre-collegiate course of study. 



Of twenty-one Institutions catalogued as vScientific Schools 

 from which answers have been received, ten do, and eleven do 

 not, require some Science for admission. 



Of one hundred and forty-one Preparatory Schools from which 

 answers have been received, ninety-eight include Science, either 

 as a required or as an elective study, in the course preparatory for 

 the Classical Courses in the Colleges. This fact seems to indi- 

 cate that the Academies and High Schools are in advance of the 

 Colleges in the recognition of the claims of Science to a place in 

 the pre-collegiate part of the educational course. There is no 

 doubt tiiat nearly all Preparatory Schools of high grade would 

 be ready to give liberal attention to scientific instruction, if their 

 scholars could receive credit for it as meeting thereby a require- 

 ment for admission to the Colleges. 



One of the most frequent objections urged against the reciuire- 

 ment of Science for admission to College is the alleged impossi- 

 bility of finding time for the study in the four years' course of 

 the Preparatory Schools. We believe that this objection is 

 sufficiently refuted by the information which we have gathered in 

 regard to the actual courses of study in the Preparatory Schools. 

 The requirements for admission to the Classical Course in most 

 of the Colleges consist substantially of Latin, Greek, and 

 Mathematics, with a little History and English Literature. In 

 order to meet these requirements, the student is ordinarily ex- 

 pected to spend four years in a High School or Academy after the 

 completion of the courses in the Primary and Grammar Schools. 

 A length of four 3'ears for the preparatory course is necessitated 

 by the amount of Latin required, which, with the methods of 

 study at present in use, is amply sufficient to occupy the time 

 of a recitation five times a week for four years. The work in 

 Greek and in Mathematics, however, is much less than four years' 

 work ; and the slight requirements in History and English Litera- 

 ture do not suffice to bring the work up to the standard of about 

 sixteen recitations per week for the tour years. There remains, 



