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Show SCHOOL YEARS. Rev. James Piele in the Monthly Review wants a revision of University training. Ho wants boys to enter at sixteen and have a three years' term. He declares that the age at which boys go to college col-lege has steadily risen until the under graduates are too old for the 'rules and restrictions of a school, while as yet duty and responsibility are not presented to them In the convincing form which they wear in actual life. This same Idea is taking form in many of the colleges of this country. The full reason is not given. Quite half the boys who go through college are not prompted by a vast desire for great learning, but because the fact of their going supplies them with a letter of credit all through life. To such a three years' course is as good as ten years would be, and for the reasons given above this course should be taken while they are yet young enough to be obedient or at least to be taught discipline. Those who love learning for learning's sake can take Post Graduate courses. If we had our way 'the course would be limited to three years and the Post Graduate course reserved for only such students as had won distinction in the first course, .for, taking young meji as they run, not half are endowed by nature with a desire for great learning, neither have they the capacity to ever excel in any calling that requires continued con-tinued study all a man's life. We see this every day. A great many university graduates attain to distinction, but the proportion of them who do, find it difficult to take and keep the pace of many men who never saw the inside of a college; so we think when a boy goes from the graded to the High school it should be only on morit; in the same way merit should decide who are to be advanced ad-vanced to the colleges and universities. |