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... ntent at http://about.jstor.org/participate--jstor/individuals/early-journal--content. JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary source objects. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not--for--profit organization that also includes Ithaka S+R and Portico. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JOURNAL THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JOURNAL takes the view that American universities are attempting to bear too large a part of the burden of education, and that they would do well to confine their efforts more closely to the carrying on of advanced work. He says: The high school does not carry the general education of the citizen sufficiently far. He wants more, and he goes to college for it. His tastes and needs may easily demand more than four years of secondary schooling can give him. The college, then, is forced to occupy itself with a good deal of secondary work. It constitutes whole classes for students who, except in point of age, should be at school for the work they are doing. It teaches them at enormous expense. They also impose upon it enormous burdens of administration. In particular, class-records of a school-like character have to be kept; and the teachers must be responsible for each pupil's progress and for his stimulation and correction, greatly after the methods used in schools [pp. 25-26].