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HE student entering the collegiate department of the university will choose between systems of study different from those now offered systems organized and rationalized; one as a liberal introduction to vocational studies; the other as a vocational discipline in liberal studies. He will take his B. A. or his B. S. in a rational course of academic studies - at twenty-one; and his Ph.D., or his professional or technical, advanced degree at twenty-three or twenty-four, with a liberal education as the basis of all.

He has been grounded in the fundamentals of education. If he has already resolved upon a career in law, or medi

cine, or theology, in engineering or any other of the professions of applied science, he will enter upon a system that may be called liberal-vocational: vocational in outlook and aim, but liberal in breadth and method. His election of a curriculum or "school" will be free within the limits which he has set for himself; but his selection of studies within that school will be confined to the groups of cognate disciplines prescribed for its proper function. His attitude toward education will be altogether other than that which now too frequently obtains. He has but three years for the normal completion of his curriculum; and of that curriculum the requirements will not, as now, be satisfied by the mere heaping up of "credits" on discontinuous "courses," but by the ability to pass examinations upon divisions of study more comprehensive than any subsidiary

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