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on College Work passed the following resolution, which it submits for 
your approval: 
Resolved, That the executive committee be authorized to take subscriptions, order 
casts, and to obtain the marble bust proposed, and keep it in a suitable place in 
Washington for subsequent use. 
Adopted. 
Mr. Alvord stated that the executive committee would receive sub- 
scriptions for the plaster casts of this bust until the new executive 
committee was appointed. The cost was $50, which might be reduced 
by further subscriptions to $45 or $40. 
Mr. Harris. The attention of the Section on College Work was 
called to the fact that the entrance requirements and courses of study 
in the various colleges, including not only the agricultural but other 
departments, vary very greatly. Attention was also called to the fact 
that high school preparatory courses were not only very different in 
different States, but in different parts of the same State. A commit- 
tee was appointed to report immediately upon what action might with 
profit be taken by the Association to remedy this. The committee 
reported as follows : 
That a committee of five be appointed by the Association, which committee shall 
report at the next annual meeting, and that the executive committee be asked to 
defray all expenses of the committee. 
That the committee be authorized to confer with the New England Association of 
Colleges, the Committee of Ten, the National Educational Association, and such 
other bodies or associations as may be, and to embody the results of such confer- 
ences in its report to this Association. 
I move the adoption of that recommendation. 
Seconded. 
Mr. Tyler, of Massachusetts. I have been very much interested, 
personally and officially, in this matter of entrance requirements, and 
am in full sympathy with the motion proposed. I should be personally 
glad if, among the societies specifically named in the resolution, were 
included the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education. 
This society was organized at Chicago last year, and had its second 
meeting last August in Brooklyn. The matter of college entrance re- 
quirements was very carefully treated in a paper by Professor Craven, 
of the University of Kansas, and aroused considerable discussion. 
At the close of the discussion it was voted that a committee of five be 
appointed by the Association to consider entrance requirements and 
report at the next annual meeting of the Association. The field to be 
covered is of course not identical with that represented in the present 
Association, but certainly on the mechanical side of this Association the 
work is very much common to the two. I think the result would be 
very satisfactory on both sides if there were the best possible coopera- 
tion between the two committees. 
Mr. Harris. While the field is of course not identical with the field 
we represent here, it is entirely included within it, and the last clause 
