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ance, industrial organization, transportation, 

 commercial law, economic resources, and 

 public service. Courses in French, German, 

 and Spanish Correspondence will be offered 

 with the special object of enabling graduates 

 of the school to read and write letters in these 

 languages and to understand the accepted 

 forms of business correspondence. Two of the 

 most important courses to be offered will be 

 entitled respectively : " Corporation Finance " 

 and " Industrial Organization." Among those 

 who have been engaged to lecture on Corpora- 

 tion Finance are Herbert Knox Smith, Com- 

 missioner of Corporations in the TJ. S. De- 

 partment of Commerce and Labor; Frederick 

 P. Fish; Professor Edwin S. Meade, of the 

 University of Pennsylvania; James F. Jack- 

 son, ex-chairman of the Massachusetts Eail- 

 road Commission; C. C. Burlingham, of New 

 York, receiver of the Westinghouse Company; 

 Judge C. M. Hough, of the F. S. District 

 Court for the Southern District of New York; 

 F. A. Cleveland, of the New York Bureau of 

 Municipal Eesearch, and G. W. Wickersham, 

 the New York lawyer. Among those who 

 have been engaged to lecture on Industrial 

 Organization are Frederick W. Taylor, ex- 

 president of the American Society of Me- 

 chanical Engineers, and a leading authority 

 on factory organization ; J. O. Fagan, a signal- 

 man employed by the Boston and Maine Rail- 

 road, the author of the recent articles in the 

 Atlantic Monthly entitled " Confessions of a 

 Signalman," and EusseU Robb, of the firm of 

 Stone & Webster, Boston. 



One of the most important features of the 

 school will be the practical work required of 

 each student in the summer. The object of this 

 work will be twofold, first, to teach the student 

 from practical experience and observation the 

 elements of business that can not be taught 

 in the class-room, and, secondly, to bring them 

 in contact with the men with whom their life 

 work is to be done. The school does not pre- 

 tend to graduate men who will begin at the 

 top or high up in their several lines of busi- 

 ness. It does aim to teach them how to work 

 and how to apply powers of observation, 

 analysis, and invention to practical business 

 problems. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



CONCERNING TWO DEFECTR'ES 



To THE Editor of Science: Inquiries from 

 various parts of this country show that the 

 newspapers have given wide publication to a 

 yellow telegram from San Jose concerning the 

 Lick Observatory. It was reported that the 

 observatory carpenter, going violently insane, 

 had driven the astronomers and a party of 

 visiting students out of the buildings, that the 

 telescopes were at the mercy of his wrath, and 

 that he was overcome and put under restraint 

 at the expense of a struggle. The facts are 

 that the carpenter became mildly insane; that 

 no one left the buildings on his account; that 

 he was watched and could have been appre- 

 hended at any time; that he was not near the 

 telescopes; and that he submitted meekly to 

 arrest by the sheriff. A competent jury would 

 probably decide that this mild lunatic was less 

 harmfid to the public than the penny-a-liner 

 who took advantage of millions of helpless 

 newspaper readers. Is the Associated Press 

 at the command of such as he? 



W. W. Campbell 



sores on colts 

 To THE Editor op Science: Some ten or 

 twelve years ago I had about fifty colts bom 

 on my farm. When they were foaled, they 

 appeared without a blemish. But within ten 

 days after, the hair would fall off a spot av- 

 eraging two inches long and a half inch wide, 

 leaving a raw sore, which would, in the course 

 of ten days, heal over, leaving a scar. Shortly 

 after, a new crop of hair covered the spot, 

 which by its different " sheen " would render 

 the location of the " sore " visible for several 

 months. The location of this sore is invari- 

 ably in the hollow of the hock joint, upon the 

 external facies of the leg, with the long diam- 

 eter perpendicular as the colt stands, thus 

 being somewhat diagonal to the Tendo Achil- 

 les. Fifteen years of close observation shows 

 it to be an invariable feature of a colt's life 

 in Louisiana. A number of years ago I called 

 the attention of Dr. W. H. Dalrymple, of 

 Baton Eouge, La. (who needs no introduction 



