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science instruction in the high school, you leave it little wiser on 

 this particular topic. This is no adverse criticism of the book, but 

 simply of our state of knowledge on this entire phase of child 

 development. The book is eminently readable and would be 

 immensely profitable to parents as well as to teachers. While 

 the development of the sex impulse is fundamental during these 

 years, the author believes that it is more or less completely a 

 hidden spring of the changes that are going on and that the factors 

 that affect school work are mental rather than physiological. 



News and Notes 



Professor Raymond C. Osburn, formerly of Columbia Univer- 

 sity, is now located at New London, Conn., on the faculty of the 

 Connecticut College. 



Professor Cornelius Betten, formerly with Lake Forest College, 

 Illinois, is now on the faculty of the New York State Agricultural 

 College, Cornell University. 



Miss Adehne Thurston, Cornell '15, has charge of the nature- 

 study classes in the State Normal School, New Paltz. 



The Dayton (Ohio) Normal School has completed plans to 

 introduce a Nature-Study course. 



