Priority in the Adoption of Higher Entrance Requirements

Abstract

Journal, March 14, 1914, p. 826), the following statement is made: "When, in 1906, the faculty of the school which I serve [the University of Virginia] decided to require thereafter a year of college work in the basic sciences preliminary to medicine, there was not a school in the entire East between Canada and Mexico, with the exception of Harvard and Johns Hopkins, which required any amount of college work for admission." This is quite true of the extreme East, but it might have been added that while Johns Hopkins has required a collegiate degree since 1893 and Harvard since 1900, Western Reserve has required three years of a college course since 1901, the University of Chicago two years since 1904, and the University of California has made the same requirement since 1905, while the University of Minnesota has required one year since 1902 and two years since 1907. In view of the splendid work done by the Carnegie Foundation and the Council on Education of the . . ., we are apt to forget the sacrifices by the above-named six institutions, which made the subsequent work for educational reform possible.W. W. Root, M.D., Slaterville Springs, N. Y.