The  proposed  requirements  raise  a  necessary  barrier  to  en-
trance of  the  unfit  and  inadequately  trained  into  the  profession.
This  barrier  presents,  under  present  day  conditions,  no  insur-
mountable obstacle  to  the  man  of  average  capacity  unblessed  by
command  of  an  overplus  of  this  world's  goods.
Colleges  and  junior  colleges  maintained  as  a  part  of  the  system
of  free  public  education  increase  in  number.
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A  broader  base  of  endowment  for  colleges  not  publicly  main-
tained admits  of  a  more  liberal  attitude  in  the  grant  of  free  and
partially  free  scholarships  to  men  of  capacity.
In  the  great  centers  of  population  the  part-time  college  is
finding  itself^  offering  an  opportunity  to  carry  along,  simul-
taneously, work  affording  a  liyelihood  and  the  pursuit  of  a  college
program.
The  rise  of  the  part-time  college  does  not  foreshadow  the
advent  of  an  era  of  lowered  standards  of  collegiate  training.
It  marks  the  dawn  of  a  day  of  recognition  of  the  need  of  ad-
justing educational  progranus  so  as  to  extend  the  opportunity  to
acquire  advanced  education  to  all  who  may  be  advantaged  thereby.
Its  rise  marks  a  step  forward  in  the  '^  American  experiment  of
government  by  the  people  through  enlightenment  of  the  people."

Years  of  experience  have  fixed,  broadly,  the  content  and  limits
of  the  college  program;  the  methods  of  conducting  it;  and  have
established  the  average  time  demanded  in  thorough  preparation
of  required  class-room  work.
It  is  upon  this  basis  of  experience  that  the  typical  college
program  extending  over  four  academic  years  is  framed.
Its  mastery  calls  upon  the  student  of  average  capacity  to
devote  to  that  end  subatantially  the  whole  of  his  working  time,
making  reasonable  allowance  for  those  activities  which  are  re-
quired to  cool  the  warm  blood  of  youth.
