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Excerpt from Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year Ended June 30, 1913, Vol. 1 The 596 colleges and universities reporting in 1912 and again in 1913 show an increased attendance of per cent of college students in graduate and undergraduate courses, and a decrease of 11 per cent in the number of preparatory students. The fact that the per cent of increase in the number of high-school students was two and six tenths timm as large as the per cent Of increase in the school popu lation, and the per cent of increase in the number of college students 40 per cent larger than the increase in the school population, shows a satisfactory response to the ever-increasing need for a larger number of men and women with better preparation for the duties of society and State than can be had in the elementary schools. The large decrease in the number of students in the preparatory schools and classes of colleges indicates a rapid increase in the efficiency of the high schools. The tiine should soon come when it will be no longer necessary for any college to maintain preparatory classes. Not only is it much better for the colleges that they use all their means for legitimate college work, it is also better for the high schools and the communities which they serve that they be not weakened by having their students withdrawn before they have finished their high-school work. It is also true in most instances that the high-school work can be done better and at less cost in the regular high schools than in the preparatory classes of colleges. Probably the large decrease in the number Of students in the preparatory classes of colleges is due to some extent also to the more liberal practice of the colleges in accepting for admission work in subjects other than those heretofore required. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.