June 23, 1911] 



SCIENCE 



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mit no student with less than fifteen units 

 of entrance credits. In other words, en- 

 trance with condition is to be abolished. 



The most striking change in the actual 

 character of the requirements — matters of 

 principle apart — is found in the substitu- 

 tion of certain specifications regarding the 

 amount of work which a student must 

 bring to the university as counter-distin- 

 guished from the particular subjects in 

 which the credits must be offered. The 

 quality of the work we expect to test 

 chiefly by the college record of the stu- 

 dents. Hitherto, following the practise of 

 most colleges, the university has desig- 

 nated so much of this subject, and so much 

 of that, as a requisite for entrance. With 

 a single exception, this type of requirement 

 now gives way to a demand for a certain 

 amount of concentrated and continuous 

 work in subjects selected by the student, 

 or by the school, from among the standard 

 academic subjects taught in all high 

 schools. The one stipulated subject which 

 must be presented is English, and this is 

 required on the ground of its unique rela- 

 tion to all other subjects in the curriculum. 



Quoting from the requirements them- 

 selves : 



Students applying for entrance to the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago present by certificate from ap- 

 proved schools, or by examination, 15 units of 

 entrance credits. Among these must be 3 units 

 of English and in addition one principal group of 

 3 or more units, and at least one secondary group 

 of 2 or more units. These additional groups may 

 be selected from among the following subjects: 



1. Ancient languages (Greek and Latin), it 

 being understood that to make a group of 2 or 

 of 3 units the work must be offered in a single 



2. Modern languages other than English; to 

 make a group of 2 or of 3 units work must be 

 offered in a single language as under group one. 



3. Ancient history, medieval and modern his- 

 tory, English history. United States history, civics, 

 economics. 



4. Mathematics. 



5. Physics, chemistry, botany, zoology, general 

 biology, physiology, physiography, general astron- 

 omy. 



Not less than 1 unit may be offered in either 

 physics or chemistry. Any combination of the 

 subjects within each group is permitted. 



Of the 15 units offered for entrance not less 

 than 7 must be chosen from subjects in groups 

 1-5 (or 10 including English). Not less than one 

 half unit may be offered in any subject. 



The remaining 5 units may be selected from 

 any subjects for which credit toward graduation 

 is given by the approved school from which the 

 student receives his diploma; but Greek, Latin, 

 French, German (and all modern languages other 

 than English), mathematics, physics and 'chem- 

 istry, if offered, but not as above under 1 and 5, 

 must each consist of at least 1 unit. Latin may 

 not be continued in college unless at least 2 units 

 be offered. 



It will be noted that a student may be 

 admitted without having taken any work 

 in three of the groups, provided he has had 

 enough work in the other two, and that the 

 content of 5 units is left entirely to the 

 secondary schools, the only restriction 

 being that they accredit the work toward 

 their own diploma. The university is con- 

 fident that such freedom in admission will 

 in no way impair the standard of its de- 

 grees, because for several years a rigid 

 method of grading has been in force, by 

 which inefficient students are inevitably 

 eliminated very early in the course. 



The first two years of the college course 

 are designed to articulate in the most inti- 

 mate way with the high school course, and 

 to assure certain results by the end of the 

 second year of college residence, such as 

 may enable the student at, or before that 

 time, to enter with the greatest advantage 

 upon professional specialization of one kind 

 or another, and to make certain that each 

 student, whether consciously aiming at a 

 particular vocation or not, shall before 

 graduation have acquired a reasonable 

 mastery of one or more fields of knowledge. 



To secure an effective correlation of 



