SCIENCE 



Friday, Jxjly 16, 1909 



COyTENTS 

 Results vs. Ideals in Technical Education: 

 Professor Robert Fletcher 65 



International Exchange of Students 78 



The Witmipeg Meeting of the British Asso- 

 ciation 79 



The Darwin Centenary at Cambridge 80 



Scientific Votes and Neics 80 



University and Educational Neivs 83 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Fundamental Laws of Matter and En- 

 ergy: Professor Gilbert N. Lewis. Some 

 Trends in Higher Education: Walter 



LiCHTENSTEIN, PROFESSOR GUIDO H. jVIaEX. 



Warning to Zoologists and Others: Dr. W. 



T. HORXADAT 84 



Scientific Books: — 



Dewey and Tufts's Ethics: Professor 

 Frank Thillt. Dudley on Athletic Games 

 in the Education of Women: Luther Hal- 

 SEY GuLiCK. Fishes of the Russian Empire 

 and of Africa: Dr. Theo. Gill 89 



Scientific Journals and Articles 93 



Special Articles: — 



On the Restoration of Skeletons of Fossil 

 Vertebrates : Db. Oliver P. Hay 93 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Academy of Science of St. Louis: Pro- 

 fessor W. E. McCoUBT. Northeastern Sec- 

 tion of the American Chemical Society: 

 Dr. K. L. Mark 95 



MSS. intended for publication and books, etc., intended for 

 reyiew should be sent to tlie Editor of Science, Garrison-on- 

 'Indson, N. Y. 



RESULTS VS. IDEALS IN TECHNICAL 

 EDUCATION <■ 



Results vs. ideals; performance vs. 

 promises; accomplishments vs. good reso- 

 lutions ; graduating classes vs. college cata- 

 logues and prospectuses— such is life ! 



This is a commemorative occasion; a 

 twenty-fifth graduation; a proper time to 

 look backward and revise educational esti- 

 mates. 



Chauncey Rose, the revered founder of 

 Rose Polytechnic Institute, had very defi- 

 nite ideals. His thought was of an educa- 

 tion blending the industrial sciences with 

 advanced academic and even collegiate in- 

 struction; the product to be, not scholars 

 only, but men fitted for various mechan- 

 ical, professional and industrial pursuits; 

 and equipped with both intelligence and 

 skiU. 



The fii*st president of Rose Polytechnic, 

 the lamented Dr. Charles 0. Thompson, 

 came here with very practical ideals, 

 worked out during fifteen years at what is 

 now the "Worcester Polytechnic Institute. 

 He transplanted to Terre Haute the sys- 

 tem by which adequate scholarship is 

 joined to skill gained by manual training 

 in shops and laboratories. The Russian 

 system in Moscow was contemporaneous; 

 but there all manual operations of shop- 

 work were for instruction only; material 

 was consumed, but for the pi-oducts there 

 was no use or commercial value. Pro- 

 fessor Calvin M. Woodward, in St. Louis, 

 had also worked ten years on the manual 

 training system, in which he aimed to 



'A memorial address on the occasion of the 

 twenty-fifth graduation at Rose Polytechnic 

 Irstitute. 



