One other defect I ought also to point out. It is obvious that considerable difficulty was experienced in disposing of the beautiful but fiendish Mrs. Angleson, for while we are vaguely told that Nemesis with unsheathed sword is on her track, she remains in actual fact the wife of an American millionaire. Most women at all events will agree that this is scarcely poetic justice, and that there are worse punishments in the world than such a rôle necessarily implies. It may be, however, that the unnatural mother is being reserved for future service, and that we are to have a further instalment of her fate and fortunes when she leaves Paris with Mr. Jefferson and reaches her new Chicago home.

P. J. LENNOX.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Plan for the Affiliation of Colleges and High Schools to the University.

Pope Leo XIII, the founder of the Catholic University, says in his Apostolic Letter, "Magna Nobis Gaudia," of March 7, 1887: "We exhort you all that you shall take care to affiliate with your university, your seminaries, colleges, and other Catholic institutions according to the plan suggested in the Constitutions, in such a manner as not to destroy their autonomy."

The Pope in these words seems to have realized what has since become an urgent need in our educational system and to have anticipated a movement that is now quite general among our teaching communities. The establishment of the Schools of Philosophy, Letters and Science, offering courses of special interest and utility to lay students, naturally suggested some sort of articulation between the University and the colleges. On the other hand, the Sisters who attended the first session of the University Summer School in 1911, have frequently expressed their desire for affiliation with the University in preference to any arrangement that might be offered by other Universities, and some of our institutions have already applied for affiliation.

In view of these facts, and in order to establish a standard for our colleges and schools, as well as to secure due recognition for the institutions that are doing good work, the Trustees of the University, at their meeting on April 17, prescribed the following conditions for affiliation:

AFFILIATION OF COLLEGES

Any Catholic college may be affiliated to the University on these conditions:

1. The college must include at least seven chairs or departments and each chair or department must be under the separate direction of at least one professor or instructor.

2. Every instructor in the faculty must have at least the A. B. degree from a college of recognized standing and every head

of a department must have at least an M. A. degree from a college in good standing.

3. The equipment of the college in libraries and laboratories must be sufficient to secure effective work in the branches offered.

4. The college must require for entrance the completion of a four years' successful course in an accredited secondary school (high school), or the passing of entrance examinations on the subjects required in the curriculum of accredited secondary schools.

5. The college course must include 2,160 hours of class work distributed over four years. Two hours of laboratory work are to be regarded as equivalent to one hour of class work.

AFFILIATION OF HIGH SCHOOLS

Any Catholic high school may be affiliated on the following conditions:

1. The high school must give a course extending over four years and including a total of 15 units, of which at least three must be devoted to English and three to some other one subject.

Meaning of unit. A subject, e. g., English, pursued four

or five hours a week for a school year of from 36 to 40 weeks, constitutes a unit.

2. The subjects required with their respective values are: Religion, 2 units; English, 3 units; some other language, 2 units; mathematics, 2 units; social science (including history), 1 unit; natural science, 1 unit. Four units to be elective. They must be selected in such a way, however, as to give another course of 3 units; i. e., one or more units must be advanced work in one of the subjects, other than English, enumerated above. Where Latin is to be pursued in college, at least 2 units of Latin must be taken in the high school. 3. Reasons for this curriculum.

(a) The high school has two functions: one is to give an

education to students who will not go beyond the high school, the other is to give a proper preparation to students who will go to college. Hence some subjects are necessary for both classes of students, while other subjects are

necessary for only the one or the other class. All students need: Religion, English, mathematics, and a second language in addition to English. The student going to college with a view to theology or law will need Latin, Greek and modern languages, together with social science; if he contemplates the study of medicine he will need more in the line of natural science, e. g., biology and chemistry. The student who goes no farther than the high school will need more in the way of mathematics, modern languages, economics and the vocational subjects. (b) The proposed curriculum, by requiring advanced work in at least two subjects, prevents the smattering which gives the student a little of many things and not much of any thing.

(c) At the same time sufficient latitude is allowed to enable
the student to determine his vocation and to begin his
preparation for it before he leaves the high school.
(d) The curriculum does not prescribe Latin for four years;
hence a student, who after one or two years in the high
school, may discover a vocation for a career in which
Latin is specially required, e. g., the priesthood, can,
without loss of time, take up Latin, say in the third and
fourth years, and complete his study of that language
during his four years at college.

EXECUTION OF THE PLAN OF AFFILIATION

With these standards of high school and college in view, the University will proceed as follows in affiliating any institution: 1. The school or college applying for affiliation shall submit to the University, on blanks supplied by the University, a detailed statement of its curriculum and equipment and of the qualifications of its professors or instructors.

2. If this statement is satisfactory it shall be verified by personal inspection through some person delegated by the University

for that purpose.

3. Should this report be favorable, the institution in question shall be placed on the list of affiliated institutions.

4. The University shall then send to the institution an assignment

of the matter for each subject offered in the curriculum of

the institution and, at the end of the year, a set of examination questions sealed and to be opened in the class when assembled for examination. The papers are then to be sealed in the presence of the class and forwarded to the University, where they will be examined and marked according to a certain scale.

5. All students who successfully pass the examinations held during the four years in the high school shall be admitted without further examination to any college affiliated by the University. All students who successfully pass the examinations held during the four years in college shall be admitted, without further examination, into the courses in the University leading to the higher degrees. They must, however, reside in colleges approved by the University.

6. If it should appear, either from the statement submitted or from inspection, that some modification is needed in order to comply with the requirements, the institution shall be placed on the list of tentative affiliation and, when the requirement is fulfilled, the institution shall be placed on the list of permanent affiliation.

7. In all cases, either of permanent or of tentative affiliation, a record, as shown by examination papers, shall be kept by the University of the work done each year by each student in each affiliated institution, and a copy of this record shall be sent to the institution in which the student resides and to the high school or college from which the student graduated. Should it appear from such records that the work of an institution is unsatisfactory, the University shall endeavor to discover the cause of the defect and to indicate the remedy.

The Sisters College Building Fund.

The Board of Trustees at their meeting on April 17 ratified the purchase of the property for the Sisters College and took the necessary steps to realize the project at the earliest possible date. Several Sisterhoods have already selected sites for their future homes on the grounds assigned for the community residences. They are having plans and specifications drawn up and