SCIENCE 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTEB TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, PUBLISHING THE 



OFFICIAL NOTICES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



Friday, Maech 12, 1909 



CONTENTS 

 The American College and Life: Pbofessoe 

 JosiAfi EOTCE 401 



M.merican College Education and Life: Peo- 

 FESSOE James H. Tufts 407 



The Proposed Hawaiian Meeting in 1910 . . . 414 



Scientifio Notes and News 415 



University and Educational News 418 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Mississippi Channel Bottom and Oulf 

 Level: Db. Isiah Bowman and C. F. Gea- 

 HAM. The Naming of New Species: De. 

 HuBEET Lyman Clabk. The Six-inch Tran- 

 sit Circle of the U. S. Naval Observatory: 

 De. Milton Updegbafp 418 



Scientifio Books: — 



Risultats du voyage du 8. Y. Belgica: Db. 

 Wm. H. DaIiL. Reid's Mechanical Draw- 

 ing : Pbofessoe Feedebick N. Willson . . 421 



Scientific Journals and Articles 423 



Special Articles: — 



Possible Error in the Estimates of the 

 Rate of Geological Denudation: E. E. Fbee 423 



The American Society of Zoologists: Pbo- 

 fessoe LoBANDE Loss Woodbuff 424 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Biological Society of Washington: 

 M. C. Mabsh. The Cliemical Society of 

 Washington: J. A. Le Cusbc. The Anthro- 

 pological Society of Washington: John R. 

 SwANTON. The Biological and Geological 

 Section of the Academy of Science and Art 

 of Pittsburg: Peecy E. Raymond 438 



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

 review sbould be sent to the Editor of Science, Garrison-on- 

 Hudson, N, Y. 



THE AMERICAN COLLEGE AND LIFE^ 

 It is in no wise due to my own choice 

 and moving that I am called upon to take 

 part in this discussion. Just because phi- 

 losophy calls for SO much reflection, I con- 

 sider it a proper part of a philosophical 

 student's business to keep himself rela- 

 tively naive, unreflective and directly 

 practical regarding at least some impor- 

 tant portion of his own life's business. 

 Upon certain problems it is my duty to 

 reflect, in as critical a fashion as I may. 

 I do reflect about those problems with a 

 good deal of persistence, and I discourse 

 upon those topics at wearisome length. 

 They are topics of logic, of metaphysics 

 and of general ethical doctrine. In the 

 rest of my life I try to stick to business 

 without much reflection. Such naivete 

 need not mean, I hope, either carelessness 

 or unfaithfulness. It may mean, and in 

 my case I hope that it does mean, so far as 

 that part of my vocation is concerned, 

 practical absorption in tasks. Now part of 

 my vocation is that of a teacher. And 

 while, as I said, I reflect a great deal upon 

 the metaphysical and other topics concern- 

 ing which I have to teach, I have never 

 been disposed to reflect much about the 

 practical business of teaching itself. I 

 teach as I can. When I observe that I 

 teach ill, I try to mend my ways. I can 

 not tell much about how I try to mend 

 them. I can not formulate a theory of 

 teaching. When I observe that a student 

 'An address given before the Section of Educa- 

 tion at the Baltimore meeting of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science. 



