LATIN VS. GERMAN 397 



Eegistrar Pierce, of the University of Minnesota : 



We have 548 freshmen in the College of Science, Literature and the Arts, 

 and 131 did not present Latin for admission. 



Lake Forest, while nominally requiring four years of language, two 

 of which must be Latin, has actually not attempted to enforce the re- 

 quirement of Latin, but instead has, for a number of years, placed 

 the ancient and modern languages on a parity. By this action of its 

 entrance board in allowing students to enter with other languages in 

 place of Latin the above comparisons have been made possible. It is 

 possible, though quite improbable, that the students under observa- 

 tion at Lake Forest were exceptional and that conclusions drawn from 

 their records are not capable of general application. It would be very 

 valuable, if in a community where a modern language is taught in the 

 high school to an extent approximating that of Latin (for French, 

 Massachusetts or New Hampshire; for German, Wisconsin, Minnesota, 

 Pennsylvania or New York), a large institution, where the languages 

 are on a parity regarding entrance, would present similar records. 



