one's merits, but in curing one's de- ELL URGS R E ORMS fects; and the great defect in American education has been the lack of thor- oughness. The European professional 1manis apt to have a wider knowledge and a broader foundation than the (Continued from Page 1) American. Professor Maurice Caul- e late war,' The two qualities cf lery, in his recent bok on the univer- urcefulness and adaptability have sities and scientific life in the United indeed, those that we have most States, in speaking of engineering edu- ed in the past. They have been cation says, "The conditions of the lutely essential for the great training of the American engineer and rican achievement, unparalleled in his French colleague are very different. hort- a period, of bringing under The latter has certainly a very marked vation a vast wilderness, of de- superiority in theoretical scientific in- ing the mines and other natural struction. I am told, indeed, that since irces of a continent, and of devel- the war has brought into the American g varied industries for a hundred industries a rather large numb'er of ons of people. I'ut all this has our engineers, this fact is well recog- been in lar'ge part done; the nized. There is in the United States m has been skimmed; and the nothing to compare with the prepara- t need of the hour is a better con- I tion of our competitive examinations ation, a more confplete andscl-.far the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ltion, amore comlete an ad Mann's Bulletin on Engineering Edu- cation to show that of the Freshmen in 22 engineering schools only about one-third could solve a simple alge- braic equation. We are told also that the English physiologists have a great advantage over ours in a more com- prehensive knowledge of physics and chemistry; and probably anyone fa- miliar with learned professions in the two countries could give other ex- amples. Strict Standards Lacking "As usual, a number of causes no doubt contribute to the lack of thor- oughness in American educatiop. One obviously is the briefness of time spent in study from birth through gradua- tion from college. This is especially true in the younger years. Our chil- dren begin late and go slowly, ap- parently on the theory that the less conscious-effort a boy puts into the process of education the more rapidly will he proceed. Another cause is the constant insertion of new subjects which are either not of a very severe nature or ought to be extra curriculum. activities, subjects which are inserted to the displacement of more serious ones. If someone suggests that rural walks and the observation of nature" are good, the school, instead of provii- ing them outside of school hours, in- serts them in the school time in the place of language, history or mathe- matics. "A third cause is the absence of rigorous standards which, until a few years ago, pervaded most college work more than it does today, and which I fear is still too largely present in the schools. Last year a boy from a good high school not far from the central part. of the country, offered himself for the College En'trance Board exam- inations. He was the valedictorian of his class, and yet in five subjects-in all of which he had obtained a double A at school-his marks were as fol- lows: English Literature, 50; Latin, 41; American History, 37; Ancient History, 30; Plane Geometry, 33. In Physics, in which he had a B at schoolj -which is, I suppose, an honor mark-I his mark was only 28. The papers ofj the College Entrance Examination Board are not made out, nor are the I books marked, by any one college, but! by a body representing the colleges and-schools. A difference in prepara- tion might very well affect to some extent an examination in Literature usually hig: and History, possibly even in Latin; Geometry C but surely a boy who obtains an un- (Cor gut not to fail a nued on Page 5) ESTABLISHED 1818 MADISON AVEhWE COR. FORTY-FOURTH STREET Telephone Murray Hill 88oo Our Representative will be at the HOTEL STATLER DETROIT, on MONDAY AND TUESDAY OCTOBER 18 AND 19 with Fall Styles in Ready-made Garments for Dress, Travel and Sporting Wear Furnishings, Hats and Shoes Send for "The Replenishment of the Wardrobe" fc use, of our resources. In short, time for superficial treatment on a scale has largely passed, and the has come for the greater thor- mess of an older civilization. Europeans "Better Prepared Visdom consists, not in glorying in Ecole Centrale. The first-year students -the Freshmen-in the engineering schools are very feebly -equipped." 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