Entrance Exams, to be Revised

The College Entrance Examination Board has appointed the following commission to consider a further revision of the requirements in Latin for admission to college: Professor C. H. Moore '89, chairman; Professor G. J. Loring, of Chicago University; Professor N. G. McCrea, of Columbia; Professor C. W. Mendell, of Yale; Professor D. R. Stuart, of Princeton; Professor M. N. Wetmore, of Williams; Miss S. B. Franklin, of Ethical Culture School, New York, N. Y.; Professor J. C. Kirtland, of Exeter; Mr. W. V. McDuffee, of Central High School, Springfield, Mass.; Dr. B. W. Mitchell, of Central High School, Philadelphia, Pa.; and Dr. J. W. Warnock, of Hill School, Pottstown, Pa.

The requirements in their present form became operative in 1911. Experience seems to indicate the possible desirability of certain changes of detail, though not of principle. Among the changes suggested are a reduction in the total number of entrance examinations such as would be gained, for instance, by combining into one examination the separate tests in grammar, elementary prose composition, and Cicero and sight translation of prose, or by using the comprehensive papers which the University, Princeton, and Yale employ; a reduction in the amount of prescribed reading in Virgil and in Cicero with the provision that the prescribed portions of the text should be changed every few years.