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mation is out of date and unreliable.^ In most cases such in- 

 formation has been received from the accrediting officer of the 

 institution, though sometimes from officers of instruction. The 

 following statement shows the recent attitude of the leading 

 universities of the upper Mississippi Valley, and of a few others 

 outside this territory. It will be noted that several institutions 

 have not had to face the problem of passing on this question, 

 but are inclined to allow the subject an opportunity to justify 

 itself. 



Ohio. Any college of Ohio State University conferring de- 

 grees wall accept year and half-year courses based on Bailey's 

 or Jackson and Dougherty's texts. 



Miami University will accept work based on the latter text. 



Indiana. The subject has never been presented for entrance 

 to the University of Indiana, but would probably be accepted 

 from a " commissioned high school " teaching it as one of the 

 four regular studies constituting a year of high school work. 



Purdue University. " Purdue has no specific arrangement by 

 which high school agriculture is accepted as entrance subject, 

 yet it is tacitly understood that the botany offered for entrance 

 may be agricultural, in fact from some of the high schools 

 it is largely so." (This is the state agricultural and mechanical 

 college of Indiana.) 



Illinois. The various degree-conferring departments of the 

 University of Illinois will accept year and half-year courses. 



The University of Chicago would probably accept " scientific " 

 agriculture, in which the underlying principles are studied by 

 laboratory methods in and out of doors. 



Michigan. The catalogue of the University of Michigan does 

 not include agriculture among the subjects that may be pre- 

 sented for entrance credit. The dean of the department of lit- 

 erature, science, and the arts thinks that credit should not be 

 allowed for it in this department " in that we teach no agricul- 



* Consult the extensive list compiled by the members of the committee 

 appointed by the department of rural and agricultural education of the 

 National Education Association to investigate the question of college 

 entrance credit in high-school agriculture, and reported at the Boston 

 meeting, July 7, 1910. 



