ABSTRACT
Columbia College, wrote President Butler in 1916, "is the door—or better, the vestibule—through which great numbers of students constantly pass on their way to highly organized professional study of one sort or another". To the participants in the annual convention of the National Education Association of 1892, the goal of closely relating the coursework of the secondary schools and the colleges appeared distant. Butler pushed hard for the establishment of the Committee of Ten and was more than satisfied with its report. Just as the Columbia Conferences relied upon others' work, Low and Butler hoped subsequent committees would employ the results of this endeavor. Establishment of uniform entrance requirements and acceptance of the newer disciplines for college entrance were only two methods of overcoming previously existing impediments. Once it demonstrated ability to administer entrance examinations, CEEB membership gradually increased.
