. Record of the class of eighteen hundred and seventy-six of Princeton university. uqua, said to be the second largest in the country. Beautiful scenery; fine climate; rare and dry at-mosphere ; altitude, one mile. Arrived here Octo-ber 14, 1899. In May, 1899, I was a Commissioner from thePresbytery of Chicago to the General Assembly atMinneapolis, Minn., and there met Beach, Scudderand Symmes. Also attended a banquet of the Prince-ton men in the Assembly, at the West Hotel. 5. As for secondary education, the publicschools are too much encumbered, if not cursed,with fads, frills, and ginger-br
. Record of the class of eighteen hundred and seventy-six of Princeton university. uqua, said to be the second largest in the country. Beautiful scenery; fine climate; rare and dry at-mosphere ; altitude, one mile. Arrived here Octo-ber 14, 1899. In May, 1899, I was a Commissioner from thePresbytery of Chicago to the General Assembly atMinneapolis, Minn., and there met Beach, Scudderand Symmes. Also attended a banquet of the Prince-ton men in the Assembly, at the West Hotel. 5. As for secondary education, the publicschools are too much encumbered, if not cursed,with fads, frills, and ginger-bread. Too much timewasted on things of but little, if any, value. Toolittle of real teaching and training done. The high schools and academies have reached theirlimit. They now require a four years course, andthis is so crowded with various studies that it is al-most impossible to complete them in that time and dothorough work. The colleges are somewhat to blamefor this, as they have raised their requirements forentrance so high. In the past twenty-five years the academies and20. o colleges have undergone a revolution, as well as evo-lution, in the courses of study, as well as in methodsof teaching. It has been largely experimental. Isntthe beginning of the new century a good time for theeducational authorities to cull from the past quarter-century all that has proved wholesome and practical,and formulate a curriculum that will be broad andstrong, as a basis for a liberal education? The oldclassical course seems to have largely disappeared;and some of the new courses seem to have consider-able fancy work. 6. For the past ten years or so, I have not beenable to keep in very close touch with Princeton;but it seems to be the general opinion, not onlyamong Princeton men, but others, that she haslargely receded from that old-time moral and re-ligious life of our day, and has become too worldlyand fashionable. WILLIAM ALLAN CLELAND, Chamber ofCommerce Building, Portland, Oregon. Have
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