SCIENC 



Vol. lvi December 8, 1922 No. 1458 



The Gifted Student and Mesearch: Professor 

 Carl E. Seashore 641 



What shall lie taught in the First Tear of 

 College Chemistry? Professor Harry N. 

 Holmes 648 



On the Existence of a hitherto Unrecognized 

 Dietary Essential for Reproduction: Pro- 

 fessor Herbert M. Evans and K. Scott 

 Bishop 650 



The Becent Scientific WorTc of Bobert 

 Wheeler Willson: M. H. D 651 



Scientific Events: 



Mortality from Cancer; Colors for Traffic 

 Systems; The Charles A. CofUn Founda- 

 tion; The Society of Sigma Xi 652 



Scientific Notes and News 655 



University and Educational Notes 659 



Discussion and Correspondence : 



Weathering under Con^ant Conditions: 

 Professor Herdman F. Cleland. The 

 Beginnings of American Geology: Dr. 

 T. C. MenbenhaJjL. The Colloidal State: 

 Dr. Jerome Alexander. The Fusarium 

 Wilt Disease of Bananas: Mark Alfred 

 Cakleton. Fresh Water Coelenterata in 

 KentucTcy: Harrison Garman. An An- 

 nouncement in Science; Dr. Vernon Kel- 

 logg 659 



Quotations : 



Insulin as a Cure for Diabetes; Justice for 

 the Pueblo Indians 665 



Special Articles: 



Series Regularities in the Arc Spectrum of 

 Chromium: Dr. C. C. Kiess ana Harriet 

 Knudsen Kiess 666 



The National Academy of Sciences 666 



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THE GIFTED STUDENT AND 

 RESEARCH! 



Like the evolution and development of so- 

 ciety, the development of the individual is 

 rapidly coming under more and more conscious- 

 ly and systematically directed control; -vvitnees 

 the gigantic educational machinery "vVhicli is 

 the product of the last twenty years. It is, 

 perhaps, safe ;to say that the systematic direc- 

 tion of the development of the individual is 

 invereely proportional to his initiative, natural 

 gifts and creative power. Morons are cared 

 for; delinquent students are sorted and served 

 each according to his individual need; the 

 average student follows a routine. But what 

 about the intellectually gifted student? Or- 

 dinarily he is held in leash. Let me enter a 

 plea for the emancipation of the gifted stu- 

 dent, giving him a realization of his powei-s 

 and responsibilities, the freedom to soar un- 

 hampered above the levels of mediocrity, and 

 to live at his highest level of achievement, 

 weaving early his bonds of friendship with 

 scholars. Instead of whipping him into line, 

 let us whip him out of Mne. 



One of the gi-eat contributions from modern 

 psychology is the discovery of the individual 

 and the projection of his profile, here and there 

 in quantitative terms, bringing to us the reali- 

 zation that in a given specific mental capacity 

 one individual may have two, five, ten, twenty- 

 five or a hundredfold the capacity of another 

 with whom he is tied up in the educational mold. 

 Our curriculum and our campus sanctions are 

 so effectively set that very often these indi- 

 vidual differences are successfully covered up 

 or smoothed out so that the gifted individual 

 as such is lost to himself as well as to society. 



A few years ago, particularly during the 



1 Eead before tlie Association of American Uni- 

 versities at Baltimore, Maryland, November 9-11, 



