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The nine committees were made up of the following teachers. Forty-seven were college men. Thirty-three were in schools whose work was to prepare pupils for college. Ten of them were teachers in public high schools. Now from the composition of these committees it would seem that the college men would have their own way (if 132 they wanted to make "Sunday Schools.") .131 133 The original committee gave eleven pointers by which .134 the nine committees were to be governed in their inquiries. .135 The one which pertains to our subject was the 7th, which reads as follows. "Should the subject be treated differently for pupils who are going to college, for those who are going to a scientific school, and for those who, presumably, are going to neither ?" .........135 .136 ..137 .138 ..139 ....141 The committee of ten, of which Dr. Elliott is chairman, ..142 makes the following report on this particular subject. "The 7th question is answered unanimously in the negative by the conferences." (i. e. by the nine sub-committees) "And the 8th, therefore, needs no answer." "The com SHALL THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS PREPARE FOR mittee of ten unanimously agree with the conferences." COLLEGE? They emphasize this further by saying, "Ninety-eight teachers intimately concerned either with the actual work If heretofore any of us have had any fears, that the col- of American Secondary Schools or with the results of that leges were trying to use the public schools merely for the work as they appear in students who came to college, unanpurpose of training pupils to enter the higher institutions, imously declare that every subject which is taught at all we can rest content after reading the report of the Com-in a secondary school should be taught in the same way mittee on Secondary School Studies. This committee was and to the same extent to every pupil so long as he purappointed at the meeting of the National Educational As- sues it, no matter what the probable destination of the sociation, July 9th, 1892. It consisted of ten members. pupil may be cr at what point his education is to cease." The chairman of this committee was Dr. Charles W. Elliott, This seems to me to be to the point in the question bewho is trying to make Sunday Schools of all the public fore us. It seems to be simple and satisfactory. Does it schools of Massachusetts, if our friend from Minersville not for all time allay any fears that the timid may have |