SCIENCE 



Friday, October 15, 1909 



CONTENTS 



The Inaugural Address of the President of 

 Harvard University: Db. A. Lawrence 

 Lowell 497 



The Inaugural Address of the President of 

 Dartmouth College: Db. EbnEst Fox 

 Nichols 505 



Dr. William Wightman 516 



The Harpswell Laboratory 517 



Honorary Doctorates Conferred iy Harvard 

 University 518 



Soientifio Notes and News 519 



University and Educational News 524 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Nature Study: Professoe Arthur Gordon 

 Webster. Neon and Electric Waves: Pro- 

 fessor W. L. Dudley. Fiindulus Luciw in 

 New Jersey: Henry W. Fowlee. The 

 Burden of Nomenclature: Jon.^than 

 Dwight, Jr 525 



Hoientific Books: — 



A Half Century of Darvnnism: President 

 David Stars Jordan. The Fauna of Chile: 

 M. J. R 527 



Note on the Occurrence of Human Remains in 

 Calif ornian Caves: De. John C. Mebriaic 531 



Special Articles: — 



The Science of Exotic Music: Dr. Benja- 

 min Ives Oilman. The Relationships of 

 the Eskimos of East Greenland: Professor 

 Franz Boas 532 



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

 review should be sent to the Editor of Science, Garrison-ou- 

 Uudaon. N. Y. 



INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT 

 OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY' 



Among liis other wise sayings Aristotle 

 remarked that man is by nature a social 

 animal; and it is in order to develop his 

 powers as a social being that American col- 

 leges exist. The object of the undergradu- 

 ate department is not to produce hermits, 

 each imprisoned in the cell of his own in- 

 tellectual pursuits, but men fitted to take 

 their places in the community and live in 

 contact with their fellow men. 



The coUege of the old type possessed a 

 solidarity which enabled it to fulfil that 

 purpose well enough in its time, although 

 on a narrower scale and a lower plane than 

 we aspire to at the present day. It was so 

 small that the students were all well ac- 

 quainted with one another, or at least with 

 their classmates. They were constantly 

 thrown together, in chapel, in the class- 

 room, in the dining hall, in the college 

 dormitories, in their simple forms of recre- 

 ation, and they were constantly measuring 

 themselves by one standard in their com- 

 mon occupations. The curriculum, con- 

 sisting mainly of the classics, with a little 

 mathematics, philosophy, and history, was 

 the same for them all ; designed, as it was, 

 not only as a preparation for the profes- 

 sions of the ministry and the law, but also 

 as the universal foundation of liberal edu- 

 cation. 



In the course of time these simple meth- 

 ods were outgrown. President Eliot 

 pointed out with unanswerable force that 

 the field of human knowledge had long 



' Given by Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell on October G. 

 Keprinted from the Boston Evening Transcript. 



