SIMPLIFYING REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION.

A recent number of the University Gazette contained an announcement of a change in the requirements for admission to the Freshman class. An attempt seems to have been made to simplify these requirements, though without changing the amount or quality of work necessary by reducing the number of specific requirements. Candidates for the degree of A.B. are no longer required to take a certain number of advanced studies, though they are advised to do so, and the list of studies available has been increased by the addition of Botany, Drawing and Civil Government, all of which are now commonly taught in public high schools. There has also been a reduction of one point in the number of points required of a candidate for the degree of S.B., from 17 to 16.

There is little question that college requirements contain so many prescriptions for admission--and no two of them are alike in this respect--that a student who finds late in his course that he can go to college may not be able to go where he wishes, owing to a difference in his school course from that outlined by the college. Any changes which will simplify these prescriptions and make the requirements more easily adaptable to the work done in the schools are welcome. The recent revision of the regulations will be of assistance in this regard and will allow greater freedom in the work done in preparation for college, without having any effect on the prescribed standard set for admission.