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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1915. Excerpt: ... V LANGUAGES AND THE COLLEGE-PREPARATORY COURSE The action of the New York State Examinations Board (February, 1914), removing Spanish from the list of languages accepted toward any of the three types of College Entrance Diploma (admitting to courses in arts, science, and engineering), was a step in the right direction. Of course, at the present moment Spanish is a very popular subject and seems destined to become more so. The present writer believes, too, that vastly more attention than we now give it should be bestowed not only upon Spanish but also upon its allied subjects: Spanish, Portuguese, and South American literatures, history, art and culture. But that does not mean that he considers Spanish equally good for all classes of students at exactly the same age. He does believe that every high school, technical school, college and university in the country should offer Spanish courses in quantity and kind adequate to the needs and abilities of their respective pupils. The secondary school pupil who looks forward to study in a College of Liberal Arts or a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has a longer perspective of studies than has any of his fellows. His course of studies, therefore, requires the utmost nicety of articulation, if he is to be saved from fundamental errors of plan, and if the educational systems of both high school and college are to be saved from wasteful duplication. It is admitted on all sides that the expense of maintaining the staff of highly trained specialists (with their laboratories and libraries) necessary for a university is prohibitive for even the best endowed of our colleges; and even the universities are seriously considering the advisability of not duplicating certain exceedingly expensive specialties. Likewise certain college necessities in s...
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