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In other words, the more Latin and the less German a student has 

 the more likely he is to need financial assistance. 



6. It has heen claimed that there are not enough students in the 

 high schools studying German, who are not studying Latin, to dis- 

 tinctly increase the number of possible college students. 



The Lake Forest records show that the amount of Latin per stu- 

 dent is not increasing, but that the amount of German is steadily in- 

 creasing. 



Students Entering Lake 



Total Number 



Average Latin per 



Average German per 



Forest 





Student 



Student 



1903-4 



53 



2.93 



1.01 



1904-5 



42 



2.69 



1.15 



1905-6 



57 



3.21 



1.33 



1906-7 



59 



2.97 



1.19 



1907-8 



58 



2.65 



1.47 



The United States Commissioner of Education's Eeports show that 

 the proportion of students taking Latin is not increasing while the pro- 

 portion taking German is increasing faster than that taking any other 

 subject. 



Letters of inquiry to the high schools in the larger towns of Illinois 

 and the adjoining states show that with them the proportion studying 

 German rather than Latin is even larger than is given in the United 

 States Commissioner of Education's Keport for those states, the small 

 high schools being included in the Eeport as well as the larger ones. 



Letters from other colleges where the languages are placed on an 

 equal footing for entrance show that a considerable proportion of their 

 students, particularly men, enter without Latin. (The colleges where 

 the languages are placed on an equal footing are nearly all in the north 

 central states.) 



President Hughes, of Eipon College: 



We have eighty freshmen. Thirty-six offered Latin for entrance require- 

 ments. Forty-four did not offer Latin. 



President Plantz, of Lawrence University : 



This year we have 173 freshmen, of whom 63 presented Latin as an 

 entrance credit. I think the number presenting Latin is steadily decreasing. 



Eegistrar Densmore, of Beloit College: 



Of the class entering in September, seventy-eight had Latin credits and 

 sixteen were without Latin credits; of the latter the large majority were men. 

 In general, a large proportion of the men enter without Latin. I do not think 

 that we feel that the policy of taking in these men has lowered the standard 

 of the institution. 



Eegistrar Hiestand, of the University of Wisconsin : 



I think I may safely place the number of students with part or full Latin 

 preparation, entering the College of Letters and Science, as between 60 and 

 70 per cent. 



