178 EEYIEWS — THE COITESE OF COLLEGIATE EDUCATION . 



Instruction, as we should require of him his diploma of M. D., if he 

 were candidate for a medical appointment. 



And here, we touch on one of the great errors lying at the foun- 

 dation of all the schemes of root and branch University reform, set 

 forth by educational theorists. We affirm unhesitatingly that it is 

 not the primary function of a College to provide a professional edu- 

 cation ; and this is especially true of the Faculty of Arts. American 

 Educationists acting on a different theory are devising new courses, 

 titles and degrees ; Masters (and Mistresses too) of Science ; — prece- 

 ded, no doubt by Bachelor, and Spinster of Science*; — Masters of the 

 Science of Engineering ; of the Science of Agriculture ; nay even of 

 the Science of Penmanship, and the Science of Accounts ! accompanied 

 with graduation in Commercial Computations, Business Customs, 

 Ornamental Penmanship, and Commercial Ethics ! ! Our idea is that 

 the College course for a B. A., degree must comprehend these, in so 

 far as they do not purely relate to special professional details, just as 

 much as it has always been our idea that Commercial Ethics is 

 necessarily comprehended in the Christian Ethics which are, or 

 should be, taught every Sunday from the pulpit. 



A Chair of Civil Engineering was proposed in the scheme originally 

 shaped out for the changes effected on Toronto University ; and 

 surely in this country few Chairs could have been more useful. But 

 men could not realize the conception of such a professorship apart 

 from the professional routine of the Architect's and Engineer's office, 

 and the comfortable pupils' fees ; and hence we believe it was still-born. 

 How the Chair of Agriculture escaped the same fate may well be 

 wondered. But so long as this practical chair stands alone its 

 position must be precarious. To complete its efficiency, a Veterinary 



* " We are multiplying our Bachelors aud Masters on all sides . .The fond idol- 

 aters of old deified beauty and wisdom under different forms ; but we will deify 

 all our beauty under the form of wisdom, and we will place our new Goddess in 

 our new Parthenon under the august title of Mistress of Arts !" Dr. Tappan's 

 Discourse, p. 49. On the same subject a correspondent of the New York Tribune, 

 writing from Ann Arbor, the seat of Michigan University, last April observes: — 

 '• The last term of the University for the year 1854-5, commences to-day. The 

 Regents have been notified that application will be made either at this or the 

 following term, by several females for admission into the University, and a full 

 and equal participation in all its privileges. You will not fail to observe and to 

 be interested in the debate on this very point in the State Teachers' Association 

 and the position taken by Prof. Haven, and indeed all the other prominent edu- 

 cators in the State. The thing is a fixed fact. Females are to have, a3 they 

 ought, equal advantages in this respect "with men. The only question left is : 

 Shall they have a separate institution, or go to the University ? The Teachers 

 all say the latter." 



