Excerpt from Recent Examination Papers for Admission to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Sheffield Scientific School, and Columbia School of Mines
The work of preparing students for the three or four leading colleges of America (with the advanced requisitions made during the last three or four vears) has become so complicated that it can be thoroughly (lone only by the expert teacher who keeps himself thoroughly informed as to the methods used in the various colleges and the peculiarities of the individual examination papers presented. As these colleges are quietly but steadily pushing on to that point where they will become universities in fact, as well as in name, the necessity for admitting young men at a greater age than formerly grows more and more apparent. Harvard College in particular, after introducing the elective system into all classes of undergraduates, has adjusted the character of its entrance examinations in such a way as to ask for original work and thought from the candidates for admission, not only in mathematics and physics, but in the languages. The old idea of preparation for college, that a boy must have read a stipulated number of the orations of Cicero, and just so many books of Homer and Xenophon, and be examined upon that and that only, has been entirely discarded, and to-day the candidate must be practically able to read Latin, Greek, and either French or German, at sight; and in geometry and algebra he finds more than one-half of the matter demanded from him put into the form of original problems or demonstrations.
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