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There is still, however, a Latin problem: the admission requirements are short of being fair to the man who comes to college for arts rather than sciences, who, however, with an eye to thorough preparatory grounding has taken two years in Latin, French, and German or Spanish. The courageous high school student is faced with the alternatives of entering a state university or entering Harvard under the College Board Examinations as a candidate for the S. B. degree. To avoid a degree which does not in the least indicate his field of college study, this student must fit himself...
...college might solve the problem by offering for these men a course in third-year Latin under the same general principle as English F; a course which would not count for a degree but which would give students a chance to remove the handicap of previous ignorance of the scope of examinations. The requirements for a Bachelor of Arts degree should emphatically not be lowcred. However, the student who is willing to put forth honest effort, should be given by the college in opportunity of making up this deficiency...
...education shall be sold at the minimum cost and not on a commercial basis has prevailed so long that its possible abolishment raises many questions of a vexatious character, such as exemption from taxation, etc. Unless we are mistaken, those who have sought to find a key to this problem of increasing costs and deficits in the increased cost of tuition have been compelled in that connection to accompany the solution with the acknowledgement that the number of scholarships should be so far increased that all danger of reserving educational processes to those able to pay any price for them...
...same time prevent the tutoring schools from railroading unprepared students through the examinations is a task which required the most delicate adjustment. With present methods of examination it seems doubtful whether it is even possible. If the new Board at Yale is successful in solving this perplexing problem, it will settle a question which has been check-mating the greatest educators for many years. There is little doubt, however, that the present entrance requirements at Harvard are not within the grasp of any but the most intelligent and ambitious element of middle or far-western high school students. Most people...
That the disastrous Worcester fire yesterday was incendiary in origin is the suspicion of many officials who are investigating the stricken area. If evidence is forthcoming to prove that such is the case, a serious problem is at once presented. So widespread is the district affected that whether the responsibility lies in a deliberate plot on the part of "reds," or of a gang of fanatical firebugs, the matter calls for the fullest examination...