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SCIENCE' 



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Microscope in the Manufacture of Paints," to be 

 conducted by Mr. Maximillian Toeh, president of 

 the New York Chemical Society. 



February 23 — Lecture by Mr. John J. Schoon- 

 hoven, M.A., president of the department, on 

 " Some Interesting Vegetable Parasites affecting 

 Man and the Lower Animals." 



March 9 — Conference on " The Microscopical 

 Examination of Milk." Harris Moak, M.D., pro- 

 fessor of bacteriology. Long Island College Hos- 

 pital, has been invited to conduct this conference. 

 The twenty-second annual exhibition of micro- 

 scopic preparations and apparatus will be held in 

 the new suite of rooms in the Academy of Music 

 on Saturday afternoon and evening, March 13, 

 1909, by members of the department. Ninety- 

 seven microscopes were in use during the evening 

 at the last annual exhibition. There will be a 

 private view of the exhibition for members and 

 invited guests on Friday evening, March 12. 



March 23 — Conference on " The Microscopical 

 Study of Insects," to be conducted by Mr. Carl 

 Schaeffer, associate curator of entomology of the 

 institute. 



April 13— Conference on " The Use of the Micro- 

 scope in Domestic Science." Miss Edith M. Greer, 

 of the department of domestic science, has been 

 invited to conduct this conference. 



April 27 — Conference to be conducted by Wal- 

 lace Goold Levison, B.Sc, vice-president of the 

 department of geology, on some subject in " Micro- 

 scopical Mineralogy." 



May 11 — Conference to be conducted by Mrs. 

 Helen W. Joy, member of the executive committee 

 of the department, on " Vegetable Histology." 



May 25 — Conference on " Fresh-water Life," 

 to be conducted by Professor Richard W. Sharpe, 

 M.S., of the DeWitt Clinton High School, vice- 

 president of the department of zoology. 



THE ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES IN 

 NEW ENGLAND 



The fifty-second annual meeting of the As- 

 sociation of Colleges in New England was 

 held at Boston University on October 29 and 

 30. The twenty-one subjects suggested by the 

 several colleges may be quoted as indicating 

 current academic problems: 



1. The future of colleges and universities which 

 collect tuition fees. (Suggested by Harvard.) 



2. What arrangements are possible or desirable 

 in order to stimulate intellectual emulation among 

 college students? (Suggested by Yale.) 



3. Is it desirable and feasible to bring about an 

 intercollegiate understanding tending to prevent 

 unnecessary duplication of courses where instruc- 

 tion is expensive and students few in number? 

 (Suggested by Yale.) 



4. The desirability of exchanges for one year 

 between professors in American colleges. (Sug- 

 gested by Brown.) 



5. When should education begin to be distinct- 

 ively vocational? (Suggested by Vermont.) 



6. The faculty supervision of student organiza- 

 tions. (Suggested by Vermont.) 



7. The present trend away from the ideals of 

 the liberal education. (Suggested by Williams.) 



8. The control of attendance on college exer- 

 cises: how much absence should be permitted? 

 (Suggested by Williams.) 



9. Scholarships, scholarship, and bribery. (Sug- 

 gested by Middlebury. ) 



10. Should colleges, not having graduate schools, 

 give the degree of Master of Arts, in course? 

 (Suggested by Amherst.) 



11. Shall the scale of units for entrance pro- 

 posed by the Carnegie Foundation be doubled so 

 as to avoid half-units? (Suggested by Amherst.) 



12. The economic waste of the present method 

 of conducting entrance examinations by the sep- 

 arate colleges. Will the colleges in New England 

 unite upon the examinations of the College En- 

 trance Board or some similar system of imiform 

 examinations? (Suggested by Trinity.) 



13. Allowed absences. (Suggested by Trinity.) 



14. Is there any general usage at present in 

 regard to the Day of Prayer for Colleges? (Sug- 

 gested by Wesleyan.) 



15. What is the proper attitude of college fac- 

 ulties towards hazing — prohibition or regulation? 

 (Suggested by Wesleyan.) 



16. Is the growing interest in vocational train- 

 ing endangering the ideals of liberal education T 

 (Suggested by Boston.) 



17. The universitizing of the college: its cause 

 and cure. (Suggested by Clark.) 



18. Can the evils of athletics be mitigated by 

 an academic course leading to degrees in its his- 

 torical, scientific, academic, social and other as- 

 pects? (Suggested by Clark.) 



19. College requirements in English. (Sug- 

 gested by Clark.) , 



20. Are the relations of the New England col- 

 leges to the high school on a sound basis? (Sug- 

 gested by Clark.) 



21. Reform in the college-entrance requirements 



