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a two-year college course, largely constituted of the sciences, as the normal point of departure, let us now survey the existing status. The one hundred and fifty-five medical schools of the United States and Canada fall readily into three divisions: the first includes those that require two or more years of college work for entrance; the second, those that demand actual graduation from a four-year high school or oscillate about its supposed "equivalent;" the third, those that ask little or nothing more than the rudiments or the recollection of a common school education.

To the first division sixteen institutions already belong; six more, now demanding one year of college work, will fully enter the division in the fall of 1910 by requiring a second; and several more, at this date still in the second division, will shortly take the step from the high school to the two-year college requirement. The Johns Hopkins requires for entrance a college degree which, whatever else it represents, must include the three fundamental sciences, French, and German. No exception has ever been made to this degree requirement; but recently admission to the second-year class has been granted to students holding an A.B. degree earned by four years' study, the last of them devoted to medical subjects in institutions where those subjects were excellently taught. At Harvard the degree requirement has been somewhat unsettled by a recent decision to admit students without degree, provided they have had two years of college science; they are to be grouped as "