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habits, standards, ideals, prejudices, and tastes that we beHeve 

 nature-study to foster and develop? Do we maintain that the 

 "natural-history" approach forms the best introduction to the 

 study of the secondary-school sciences, — that it is better than the 

 economic approach or the "pure-science" approach? The method 

 of parallel groups, applied with a careful regard for the scientific 

 proprieties, and repeated in several different localities, would 

 either give our judgment a sanction that no amount of dogmatic 

 opinion to the contrary could question; or it would demonstrate 

 that our assumption was fallacious. If the latter condition ex- 

 ists, we should be more anxious to know about it than should 

 anyone else. 



It would seem, indeed, that accurate data concerning educa- 

 tional standards, functions, and values ought, in all consistency, 

 to be furnished by those who are engaged in teaching the 

 sciences; for such teachers are, by hypothesis, imbued with the 

 true spirit of science. By hypothesis, they are possessed, first, 

 of the courage, of the modesty that will keep them from undue 

 arrogance if they succeed in establishing the beliefs and theories 

 upon which they have been basing their work; and finally, of the 

 impeccable veracity that will lead them to acknowledge and pro- 

 claim the truth when they have found it, even though the find- 

 ing of the truth may sound the death-knell of their own theories. 



"The Forward Movement", Chicago, whose aims are soc- 

 ial, physical, industrial, and experimental for the betterment of 

 society, held a summer school on the eastern shore of Lake 

 Michigan near Saugatuck, in which Prof. W. W. Whitney, of the 

 Department of Biology, Bowen High School, Chicago, and 

 President of the Chicago Nature-Study Club, directed the classes 

 in nature-study. His courses involved the studies of birds, trees, 

 wood life, sand dune life, water and marsh life, agronomy, the 

 camera and physiography. 



Friends of Dean L. H. Bailey the country over were shock- 

 ed to learn of the injury he sustained by being struck down 

 by a runaway horse on the streets of Ithaca, New York. He 

 received injuries to his hip and his neck. Although confined 

 to his bed, upon last reports he was improving and it is expected 

 that he will soon be able to be upon his feet again. 



