A CASE FOR INTELLECTUAL CO-OPERATION [To the Editor of the
SPECTATOR.]
Sia,—There has been a good deal of correspondence in news- papers lately advocating that Public School boys of seventeen years of age should be sent direct to Canadian Universities, but an attempt to enter one Such 'boy for a four years' course of forestry at one of them has not materialized. The boy holds a school certificate with five credits which would receive some consideration at such Universities as Oxford and Cambridge, but it is not sufficient for this Canadian University.
After waiting more than two months to hear how far such a certificate would carry him, a telegram produced a reply:
stating that the application had given " a good deal of con- cern " ; this may have been due to the telegram having reminded them that it had been so long ignored. The certi- ficate " is not sufficient to admit " the boy—" we need examinations of at least one year in advance of that, covering yery definite, subjects " (what these are is not stated) " before you would meet the academic requirements of entrance to the Faculty of Forestry."
As to his age, he is "old enough technically " whatever that may mean, but " it is unwise for him to enter this course until there is maturity of judgment and some real experience of what the wild means." These may be among the academic requirements of this particular University but if so the average boy at an English Public School will not feel encouraged to to try to enter it.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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