Note 554 — Chapter X · The Intellectual Scope.

President Jones of Hobart College, in the Forum, January 1901: Is the College Graduate Impracticable?—The greatest difficulty in this country lies in the fact that pupils go too late to the high school or college. The study of Latin should be commenced at the age of ten or twelve years, instead of thirteen or fourteen. See Dr. Stanley Hall, Forum, Sept. 1901; and below ch. XVI, § 1.—The same is advocated by Professor Nightingale in the Report of the Conference on English, read before the National Association of Education, at Ashbury Park, N. J., 1894. German boys begin with nine or ten years, why should not the clever American boy be able to begin with ten or eleven?