"A Year of Latin"

The organization of U. S. education continues. Last week, masters from 18 Eastern private schools sat down together at the Fessenden School (West Newton, near Boston) and determined that hereafter there should be some uniformity in the admission requirements that all their schools employ. They appointed a committee--Messrs. Osgood of Milton Academy, Christie of St. George's, Fessenden of Fessenden-- to appoint examiners and prepare and distribute papers in entrance subjects common to all the schools. Entrance to these 18 schools will hereafter be similar to entrance to those colleges which exact the uniform College Board standards of their matriculants. The purpose of the masters was not to change the requirements of any given school, nor to standardize the use of any list of books, but to come to an agreement, as representatives of competing schools, on what, for example, shall constitute "a year of Latin" for entrance to the fifth year before college. The 18 schools concerned: Andover, Arden, Bancroft, Buckley, Chestnut Hill, Exeter, Fessenden, Groton, Hill, Hotchkiss, Lawrenceville, Loomis Institute, Milton Academy, Pomfret, Rivers, St. George's, St. Paul's (Concord), Tome Institute.