July 2, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



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their boarding halls. The regular inspec- 

 tion of such dairy herds, reported by a 

 number of colleges, is a duty so obvious 

 that its neglect will go far to neutralize 

 the most eiScient teaching of the class room. 



Our colleges are using the directest means 

 of enlisting their students in the war 

 against the great white plague. Local anti- 

 tuberculosis societies are organized, as at 

 Radcliffe. Special lectures or courses of 

 lectures are given before student assemblies. 

 At the Rose Polytechnic and at Bryn Mawr 

 such addresses are given by the president. 

 At Vanderbilt University the director of a 

 tuberculosis exhibition held at Nashville 

 was obtained to address the students. At 

 Cornell College, Iowa, the Science Club 

 for four successive years has provided open 

 evening lectures for students and towns- 

 people, securing for this purpose the state 

 bacteriologist, the state lecturer on tubercu- 

 losis and one of the government meat in- 

 spectors from one of the cities of the state 

 as well as physicians and teachers of the 

 town and college. In about one fifth of 

 the 200 representative colleges such lectures 

 are now given before student assemblies. 



A still larger number of schools give 

 special attention to tuberculosis in the class 

 room. At Dartmouth the physical director 

 gives two or three lectures a year to the 

 freshman class in a course on hygiene. 

 Indiana State University provides instruc- 

 tion on tuberculosis, its causes, results and 

 methods of prevention and cure, in a course 

 of lectures on hygiene given by different 

 members of the faculty and required of all 

 candidates for graduation in the college of 

 liberal arts. Purdue University assigns a 

 large place to the subject in a series of 

 lectures on health and efficiency and Carl- 

 ton College provides for the same in a 

 course on social problems. The propaganda 

 is carried on in many schools in the depart- 

 ments of biology and hygiene, in sociology. 



domestic science, sanitary engineering, and 

 economics. The University of Wisconsin 

 for several years has given lectures on tu- 

 berculosis in farmers' courses and before 

 various meetings of teachers. The Univer- 

 sity of Minnesota makes such lectures an 

 integral part in the program of its college 

 of education. 



The recent organization of schools of 

 education in the stronger colleges and 

 universities opens a large field for the 

 propaganda. Colleges and universities now 

 supply the majority of high-school, teachers. 

 To teach the students of the schools of 

 education in the colleges and universities 

 the facts as to tuberculosis is to dissem- 

 inate these facts throughout the secondary 

 schools. To enlist college and university 

 men and women in the great crusade is to 

 draw under the same banner the hundreds 

 of thousands of high-school boys and girls 

 who in the immediate years are to be under 

 their instruction. 



An educational agency effectively em- 

 ployed in some schools is the circular. The 

 students of the University of Minnesota 

 were recently thoroughly circularized on 

 the subject under the auspices of the anti- 

 tuberculosis committee of the Associated 

 Charities of Minneapolis. At Syracuse 

 University the students have entered so 

 heartily into the campaign that they re- 

 cently distributed cardboard circulars on 

 tuberculosis printed in five languages to 

 the 25,000 homes of the city. 



Perhaps less than one half of our higher 

 schools have as yet actively interested 

 themselves in the twentieth century cru- 

 sade. Yet even those replies to our ques- 

 tionnaire which confess a total lack of co- 

 operation in the present are often most 

 encouraging in their promise for the fu- 

 ture. "It is high time that we devoted 

 some attention to a matter of such vital 

 importance," writes the president of a col- 



