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inductive study of pedagogical problems which has made itself felt 

 throughout the schools of the laud. While Dr. Hall is one of few men 

 who might have appropriately represented more than one of the great 

 divisions of the congress, lie chose on this occasion to discuss partic- 

 ularly the leading problems and methods of psychology, in an address 

 spoken from the heart, abounding in fertile suggestions and no less 

 characteristically teeming with allusions — an address which insisted 

 on the continuity if not the identity of life and mind, and emphasized 

 the urgent need of an objective study, at once comprehensive and 

 thorough, of every concrete phase of experience in all its heterogeneous 

 richness, as a basis for subsequent generalization under the guidance 

 of the principle of evolution. 



The division of utilitarian sciences, giving shelter to medicine, 

 technology and economics, was generalled by President David Starr 

 Jordan, of Leland Stanford University, eminent as a systematic zoolo- 

 gist, especially in ichthyology, who has placed his special knowledge 

 at the service of the state in relation to questions of international 

 import, and has admirably exemplified in his career what, as educator, 

 writer and publicist, he has enunciated in no uncertain terms — the 

 union of theory with practice in intelligent, effective work. President 

 Jordan pointed out the unity of all the so-called utilitarian sciences 

 in that they have their common source in disinterested investigation, 

 at the same time claiming for pure research and practical application 

 a relation of reciprocal dependence. Science is the guide of life and 

 pure science must precede its applications, yet the utilities of science 

 may not only determine the direction of its efforts but must ultimately 

 control its results, measuring their exactness by the relentless standard 

 of consequences. 



The general interests of social regulation — in the sphere of politics, 

 of jurisprudence and of those human groups with the economy of 

 which social science is concerned — were entrusted to Mr. A. Lawrence 

 Lowell, a distingushed member of a distinguished American family, 

 professor of civil government in Harvard University, a scientific 

 student of legislation, who has brought to the examination of political 

 and legal institutions a ripe scholarship and an exceptionally critical 

 mind. It is reported that in Professor Lowell's address the discussion 

 took a somewhat practical turn, emphasizing especially the many-sided 

 race problem, which was considered both historically and in relation to 

 present-day conditions. 



It almost goes without saying that the choice of a spokesman for 

 social culture, through the great agencies of education and religion, 

 fell upon the Honorable William T. Harris, U. S. Commissioner of 

 Education, an alert survivor of the transcendentalist movement in 

 America, celebrated for his learned familiarity with the history of 

 civilization no less than for his indefatigable acuteness in the specu- 

 lative interpretation of its principles after the manner of a philosophy 



