PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

I GENERAL

Preacademic, grammar or common school work refers to the eight years of elementary instruction; secondary or academic work, to the four years of secondary instruction between elementary school and college; college work, to the four years of higher instruction, following the four years of secondary. Professional institutions are uniformly called schools.

Authorities - It is impossible within the limits of this monograph to give more than a brief outline of professional education in the United States. For detailed information touching laws, regulations, location of schools, and courses of study the reader is referred to Professional education in the United States, published by the University of the State of New York.

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Of the many authorities consulted the following have proved most helpful: U. S. education reports; Eliot's Educational reform; U. S. census reports; Briggs' Theological education and its needs; Dyer's Theological education in America Jessup's Legal education in New York; Wellman's Admission to the bar Hammond's American law schools, past and future; Reports of the American bar association; Toner's Annals of medical progress in the United States, Davis' Medical education and medical institutions in the United States; Journal American medical association; Shepard's Inaugural address at the World's Columbian dental congress; Proceedings of the American pharmaceutical association. These and other authorities have been used freely, but limited space makes it impracticable to give in many cases more than this general acknowledgment.

1 Forum, January 1892. Penn monthly, August 1880. 3 See the History of the bench and bar of New York. 4 American law review, May 1881. 5 Southern laro review, August 1881. • U. S. education report, 1874. U. S. education report, 1877.