HIGH SCHOOL

QUARTERLY

JOSEPH S. STEWART, EDITOR.

Official Organ of the Southern Commission on Accredited Schools, of the Georgia High School and National High School Inspectors Associations.

EDITORIALS: Cradle Robbing Colleges; The Birmingham Meeting___
A STUDY OF THE MATRICULATION OF STUDENTS ENTERING SOUTHERN
COLLEGES Secretary Clyde Furst

73

77

THE WORTHY USE OF LEISURE-Principal H. R. Mahler_.

83

THE WORK OF THE SOUTHERN COMMISSION ON ACCREDITED SCHOOLS-
J. S. Stewart

89

STANDARDS FOR COLLEGES ON THE SOUTHERN LIST____.

102

SCHOOL NOTES FROM KENTUCKY-Prof. McHenry Rhoades

105

THE HIGH SCHOOLS OF WEST VIRGINIA-Prof. Earl Huddleson---- 107 REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON DEANS' REPORTS-Supt. E. D. PuseyREPORT OF THE SOUTHERN COMMISSION ON ACCREDITED SCHOOLSSecretary A. B. Hill

117

126

BOOK REVIEWS

145

Published by the Editor at The University of Georgia
Entered as second-class matter October 28, 1912, at the post office at Athens, Ga., under the Act of March, 1879

$1.00 a Year

25c a Copy

January, 1922

Volume X.
Number 2

The

Library of the Graduate School"

of Education

High School Quarterly

Entered as second-class matter October 28, 1912, at the post office at Athens, Ga.. under the Act of March, 1879.

Vol. X.

JANUARY, 1922

JOSEPH SPENCER STEWART, A.M., Ped.D., Editor.

No. 2

W. L. SPENCER, Montgomery, Ala.; A. B. HILL, Little Rock, Ark.;
JOSEPH ROEMER, Gainesville, Fla.; MCHENRY RHOADES, Lexington,
Ky.; C. A. IVES, Baton Rouge, La.; H. M. IVY, Jackson, Miss.; J. H.
HIGHSMITH, Raleigh, N. C.; B. L. PARKINSON, Columbia, S. C.;

J. W. BRISTER, Nashville, Tenn.; S. M. S. MARRS, Austin,
Tex.; L. L. FRIEND, Charleston, W. Va.; H. J. ELLIS,
Richmond, Va.; HARRY CLARK, Nashville, Tenn.;

M. D. CAMPBELL, Sec. So. Com. Higher Inst.,
Lexington, Va.; H. B. EDMONSON, Sec. Nat.
H. S. Insp. Ass'n., Ann Arbor, Mich.,
Contributing Editors.

EDUCATION IN A DEMOCRACY, BOTH WITHIN AND WITHOUT THE SCHOOL, SHOULD DEVELOP IN EACH INDIVIDUAL THE KNOWLEDGE, INTERESTS, IDEALS, HABITS AND POWERS WHEREBY HE WILL FIND HIS PLACE AND USE THAT PLACE TO SHAPE BOTH HIMSELF AND SOCIETY TOWARD NOBLER ENDS.-N. F. A. Reviewing Committee on Secondary Education.

Editorials

Cradle Robbing Colleges.

When I was a boy, there were some local young men who insisted on courting the fourteen-year-old girls. Of course those girls were so honored that they spurned the company of the boys of their own age! To our indignation, they said they did not want to "keep company with infants!" Our only revenge was to dub those young men "cradle robbers," robbing kindergartens in order to get sweethearts! Well, we have some colleges which are "cradle robbers" for they offer the third year students in our secondary schools an opportunity to enter upon freshman work at college. At once these students refuse to "keep company with infants." These cradle