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There have been constantly in our minds the possibilities that 
such a laboratory might have for advanced college students. Having 
become thoroughly convinced of the immense importance and useful- 
ness in the last years of a college course, of what we have been calling 
‘“iunior research work,’’ and having been long aware of the tremen- 
dous effectiveness of ‘‘living interest’? as a pedagogical tool, we have 
done our utmost to give advanced students the opportunity to try out 
their several abilities and capacities in scientific methods of thought 
and work, on some simple little piece of live investigation that they 
might easily carry through by faithful effort. The response to these 
great opportunities among our students, has been little short of 
marvellous. Advanced students of some special ability and capacity 
have constantly sought these opportunities and given to them unlim- 
ited amounts of time and energy—largely in their own outside free 
hours, and usually without college credits. Their results have, as a 
rule, been highly commendable. For instance, the work by Hall on 
Acarina, Crawford on the Psyllide and Thysanoptera, and Metz on 
the bees, is (according to some of the best authorities in this country 
and Hurope) as good as any work of the same sort ever done in this 
country, and in some respects better. 
Uniformly we have encountered a great purpose on the part of 
the students to make their work ‘‘as good or better than anything 
done before’’—this has been their working principle. Naturally there 
would never be time here to develop anything more than simply some 
promise of their possibilities. Jiven when their maiden efforts are 
not so admirable, every day sees great and steady growth—with 
inevitable response to the great ideals of endeavor which seem to 
permeate everything at Pomona. One of our students who has been 
a constant contributor to the Pomona Journal of Entomology for 
several years, still shows striking improvement in every article pub- 
lished, and this spirit of ‘‘getting better all the time’’—the spirit of 
‘‘ooing on,’’ has characterized all of this ‘‘junior research work.’’ 
In the face of such spirit as this, it may be imagined that our profes- 
sors have spared no effort to furnish opportunities where they were 
earnestly sought by capable students. Our college curriculum being 
a crowded one, we had early conceived the idea of a summer marine 
laboratory, and have worked steadily towards it, with the result of 
its partial materialization in 1911. 
