14 first Annual Beport 
who have had the necessary basic training. Of course, all subjects 
requiring extensive apparatus, complicated technique, great numbers 
of highly specialized courses, or more than ten to fifteen hours per 
week, are taboo here and belong to the real university. For such 
work as we undertake, our equipment is unusually adequate, and will 
be so maintained. 
Some of the best students we have are earning their way through 
college, wholly or in part, and are desperately crowded for time 
throughout the semesters. For these and for others with a limited 
number of extra hours, a great opportunity in the summer is a God- 
send! The Marine Laboratory at Laguna Beach gives us exactly 
the fullness of possibility in this direction that we formerly lacked. 
The professorial staff gives unlimited time to this seaside enterprise 
without tuition charges, even standing on the same basis as the stu- 
dents in matters of running expenses, bearing their share of the 
burdens of support as well as of work, and thus placing the oppor- 
tunities within the reach of any who may desire them. This attitude 
has established an ‘‘esprit du corps’’ that is remarkable in its sin- 
cerity and intensity. When an educational enterprise is put on foot 
and carried forward on the strength of free-will interest and desire 
in a group of students, the success of its work will be assured. 
~So we submit this report and the principles it involves to the 
kindly criticism of the world of science and of education, above all 
other things as a study in practical pedagogy and more natural 
methods of instruction. 
C. F. Baxer. 
