EXETER SUMMER SCHOOL HEAD CRITICISES NEW EXAM RULING

Professor J. C. Kirtland, director of the summer school of the Phillips Exeter Academy in a recent statement clearly establishes his stand against the new September examination ruling. He decided, "I firmly believe that any boy when can furnish evidence of presumably adequate preparation should be allowed letter the September examinations; and that he should be given credit for any subject of which he has shown on the examinations a clearly satisfactory knowledge. That I may not seem prejudiced because of my connection with a school which prepares many boys for examination at that time, let me say that the summer session at Exeter was under with for the same reason that I should age in support of the September examinations, namely as a contribution to the problem of wastage in American education."

Professor Kirtland further stated, "Here is a steady movement toward the use of part of the summer for study, and it is no longer the weaker boys and cramming schools that are concerned in the summer work. May not it be questioned whether a great university ought it possible to help this movement? Certainly no small number of desirable students will be influenced in their choice of college by the new rule at Harvard."