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human blood resembling that found in 

 animals suffering from the tsetse fly 

 disease. Several of the exhibits were 

 more or less connected with America. 

 Thus Dr. Roberts showed lantern 

 slides in natural colors of the Canyon 

 of the Colorado and the Yellowstone 

 Park, and similar American scenes 

 painted by Miss Breton were exhibited. 

 Professor Schuster exhibited a Row- 

 land grating of one meter focus ar- 

 ranged to show the lines of iron in the 

 flame of a Bunsen burner. Professor 

 Lankester exhibited models of deep-sea 

 fishes, based in part on the figures and 

 text of Goode and Bean's 'Oceanic 

 Ichthyology,' while the Royal Astro- 

 nomical Society exhibited photographs 

 of the nebula surrounding Nova Persei 

 taken at the Yerkes Observatory. 



PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. 

 The Rev. Dr. Francis L. Patton, 

 who succeeded the Rev. Dr. James Mc- 

 Cosh as president of the College of 

 New Jersey in 1888, resigned the presi- 

 dency of Princeton University on June 

 9, and the trustees immediately elected 

 as his successor Dr. Woodrow Wilson, 

 McCormick professor of jurisprudence 

 and politics. It would be pleasant to 

 join in the general expression of sur- 

 prise at President Patton's resigna- 

 tion, of admiration for his administra- 

 tion and of eulogy of his successor. 

 But principles are more important 

 than men; and this journal represents 

 certain principles at variance with the 

 policy of the authorities of Princeton 

 University. President Patton's resig- 

 nation was not a surprise to those fa- 

 miliar with the inside history of the 

 university, nor do they regard the ma- 

 terial growth of Princeton in money 

 and men during the past fourteen 

 years as due to him. Dr. McCosh was 

 in advance of his church and his col- 

 lege; he did much to forward the 

 teaching of organic evolution and of 

 psychology as a science. Dr. Patton 

 was once a hunter down of heretics 

 in his church; the ethics that he 



teaches are but little concerned with 

 the principles of evolution or of psy- 

 chology. He has an acute mind of a 

 scholastic turn and an attractive in- 

 dividuality; but his influence at 

 Princeton has not been great. 



Through the loyalty of its alumni, 

 Princeton has increased in wealth and 

 in numbers under President Patton's 

 administration; but nothing has been 

 done to justify the change of name 

 from college to university. Fourteen 

 years ago Harvard, Yale and Princeton 

 might with some reason have been 

 mentioned as our leading institutions 

 of learning; now Princeton can be 

 ranked with Harvard, Columbia and 

 Chicago only by those who gain their 

 information from the pages of the 

 daily press devoted to athletic sports. 

 Princeton has no school of law or of 

 medicine. The theological seminary 

 in the village represents the least pro- 

 gressive elements in the Presbyterian 

 church. The last catalogue of Prince- 

 ton University contains the names of 

 117 graduate students, but sixty-eight 

 of them live in the halls of the theo- 

 logical seminary. Princeton has a 

 school of science; but its students must 

 take thirteen and a half hours in lan- 

 guage (including Latin) as compared 

 with eight hours in science; they are 

 not permitted to begin the study of 

 physics until the junior year. 



There is reason to doubt whether 

 President Wilson will accomplish at 

 Princeton what President Hadley may 

 be expected to accomplish at Yale. Dr. 

 Wilson is a brilliant essayist; like his 

 predecessor, he is one of the few col- 

 lege presidents who can speak with 

 credit on the same platform as Presi- 

 dent Eliot. But from the scientific 

 point of view, there is not a great 

 difference between the literary-theo- 

 logical and the literary-legal mind. 

 When Dr. Eliot in 1869 resigned the 

 professorship of chemistry in the Mass- 

 achusetts Institute of Technology and 

 was installed as president of Harvard 

 University, he laid down a program of 



