Institutions recommended by the Association of American Universities for the acceptance of their bachelor's degrees by foreign institutions.

The list includes the members of the Association of American Universities, the institutions on the accepted list of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching,' and other American colleges and universities certified by the Carnegie Foundation as being of equivalent standing with the institutions on the foundation's list, but excluded therefrom because they are in some sense sectarian as defined in the terms of gift of the foundation.

The list includes no institution which does not require for admission a full four-year high-school course. It does not include any institution not supported by taxation which has a productive endowment of less than $200,000, or any tax-supported institution whose annual income is less than $100,000.

South Dakota: University of South Dakota,
Vermilion.
Tennessee:

University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
University of the South, Sewanee.
Vanderbilt University, Nashville.
Texas: University of Texas, Austin.
Vermont:

Middlebury College, Middlebury.
University of Vermont, Burlington.

Virginia University of Virginia, Charlottes-
ville.1
Washington:

State College of Washington, Pullman.
University of Washington, Seattle.

Wisconsin:

Beloit College, Beloit.

Lawrence College, Appleton.

Ripon College, Ripon.

University of Wisconsin, Madison.1

ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF THE SOUTHERN STATES.

Institutions of collegiate grade, members of the association November, 1916.

The by-laws relating to the requirements for membership in the association are as follows:

1. No college belonging to this association shall maintain a preparatory school as part of its college organization. In case such school is maintained under the college charter, it must be kept rigidly distinct in students, faculty, and discipline.

2. The completion of a secondary-school course covering at least the amount of work indicated in section 3 of these by-laws should be demanded of every student seeking admission to college. In measuring the amount of work done by such students the association accepts the valuation of a unit as fixed by the National Conference Committee on Standards, as follows:

A unit represents a year's study in any subject in a secondary school, constituting approximately a quarter of a full year's work.

This statement is designed to afford a standard of measurement for the work done in secondary schools. It takes the four-year high-school course as a basis and assumes that the length of the school year is from 36 to 40 weeks, that a period is from 40 to 60 minutes in length, and that the study is pursued for four or five periods a week; but under ordinary circumstances a satisfactory year's work in any subject can not be accomplished in less than 120 sixtyminute hours or their equivalent. Schools organized on any other than a fouryear basis can, nevertheless, estimate their work in terms of this unit.

3. Fourteen units are required of all students admitted to college. Conditions are allowed to the extent of two units only, and all conditions or deficiencies should be removed before the beginning of the second year in college. College work done to remove conditions must not be counted toward a degree. Students may be admitted either on certificate or on examination, but they must in all cases comply with the above requirements as to the amount of work offered. The association strongly recommends that all candidates be required to offer English and mathematics, and that all candidates for a degree course in the college of liberal arts be required to offer in addition the necessary preparation in two foreign languages.

4. Special students may be admitted to college without the usual form of examination under the following conditions: (a) They must be of mature age (not less than 20 years is suggested); (b) they must not be admitted to classes for which entrance examinations are required unless they pass such examina1 Member of the Association of American Universities.

tions; (c) they must give proof of adequate preparation for the courses sought; (d) their names must be separately printed in the catalogue.

The conditions established by the Carnegie Foundation in order that institutions may participate in the benefits of the fund are as follows:

Institutions of higher learning, including colleges, technical schools, and universities, whose work is clearly of college or university grade, may be admitted to participation in the benefits of the retiring allowance system sustained by the foundation.

Academic standing.—In order to be admitted to the retiring allowance system of the foundation, the essential work of an institution must be that of higher education, and of such a character that graduation from a four-year high-school course, or equivalent training, is a prerequisite therefor.

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The term "college" is used to designate, in the United States1 stitutions varying so widely in requirements for admission, standards of instruction, and facilities for work, that for the purposes of this foundation some arbitrary definition of that term is necessary. The following definition, in force in the State of New York, will be employed:

1 The foundation's list includes also institutions in Canada and Newfoundland. In this bulletin, however, the names of all foreign institutions have been consistently omitted.