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Professors Morton Prince and George V. 

 N. Dearborn, at the Tufts College Medical 

 School, Boston, offer a course on psycho- 

 pathology, required for fourth-year students 

 of medicine. The course, which is said to be 

 the first of the kind, will cover the following 

 topics : 



Mental physiology. — ^Mechanism of memory, in- 

 cluding physiological (unconscious) memories 

 ( spinal cord and ganglia ) . Meaning of the un- 

 conscious. Formation and conservation of imcon- 

 Bcious complexes. Meaning of the subconscious 

 and co-conscious. Integrative action of the ner- 

 vous system. Habit-formation. Emotion. Influ- 

 ence of psychical processes on the functions of 

 the viscera (digestive, vasomotor, secretory, res- 

 piratory systems, etc. ) . Cenesthesia. Hypnosis 

 (theory and phenomena). Suggestion. Idea-com- 

 plexes. 



Dissociations of the mind. — ^Anesthesia. Par- 

 alysis. Amnesia. Abstraction. Hypnoidal states. 

 Sleep. Trance states. Fatigue. Subconscious 

 ideas and their activity. Unconscious processes. 

 Abulia. 



Syntheses. — Sensory automatisms (visual and 

 auditory hallucinations). Paresthesise. Pain. 

 Motor automatisms (spasms, contractures). Re- 

 current mental states. Obsessions. Impulsions. 

 Fixed ideas. Delusions. Unconscious mental 

 complexes and their influences. Dreams. 



Special pathology. — Neurasthenia. Hysteria. 

 Psychasthenia. Hypochondriasis. Phobias. Habit 

 psychoses and neuroses. Mimicry. Psycholeptic 

 attacks. Kecurrent sensorimotor attacks. Am- 

 nesic states. Dissociated personality. Fugues. 

 Ties. 



Methods of examinations besides the ordinary 

 clinical methods. — Psycho-analysis. Abstraction. 

 Hypnoidization. Hypnosis. Automatic writing. 

 Artificial hallucinations. Psychogalvanic tests. 

 Word reaction tests. 



Principles of psychotherapeutics tased on psy- 

 chopathology. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



The University of Virginia has completed 



an endowment fund of $1,000,000 of which 



half has been given by Mr. Andrew Carnegie. 



The edueationai commission which has for 

 the past two years been codifying and revising 

 the school laws of Pennsylvania, has created 

 Colleges of Education at the Universities of 

 Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh. These colleges 



wiU have as their specific functions the train- 

 ing of high school and normal school teach- 

 ers, principals and superintendtents of schools, 

 supervisors of the various school grades, super- 

 visors of special branches, and experts for 

 service in the public school system' of the 

 Commonwealth. The code provides that the 

 state shall pay the tuition of Pennsylvanians 

 who are normal school graduates or who have 

 successfully completed the sophomore year of 

 a college. While no state aid is asked at the 

 present session, it is provided that the legisla- 

 ture may make special appropriations for 

 buildings, equipment and other needs of the 

 Colleges of Education as from time to time 

 may be deemed necessary. 



In accordance with the principles of uni- 

 versity nomenclature adopted by the Associa- 

 ^ tion of American Universities, the University 

 of Wisconsin has changed the title of the col- 

 lege of law to that of " Law School," and the 

 name of the college of medicine was changed 

 to that of " Medical School " ; the recommen- 

 dation of the Association of Universities be- 

 ing that the term^ " school " be applied to 

 those professional departments requiring for 

 admission at least two years of college work. 



On February 15 the University of Ne- 

 braska celebrated the fortieth anniversary 

 of the granting of the charter under which 

 the institution was organized. The address 

 was given by Dr. Ellery W. Davis, dean of 

 the College of Literature, Science and the 

 Arts, on " A Coming Aristocracy." 



The scheme prepared by the charity com- 

 mission under the will of the late Mr. John 

 Innes, of Merton, has now been settled. The 

 most important part relates to the institution 

 of a national horticultural college at Merton. 



The Italian minister of education. Signer 

 Eava, has pledged himself to the restoration 

 in its integrity of the University of Messina, 

 promising the students that it shall not be 

 transferred elsewhere. Attention has been 

 called to the fact that in view of the 16 other 

 state universities, of which two are in Sicily — 

 at Palermo and Catania — this concession to 

 passing sentiment is to be deplored as only 

 adding needlessly to the complications of the 

 revival of Messina. 



