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portant factor in determining the course 

 of consumption. Vocational training for 

 woman will then be conceived broadly 

 enough to enable her to plan not only 

 economically, but with taste and refine- 

 ment for those satisfactions that are per- 

 manent and genuine, and also with intelli- 

 gent judgment for those that make for the 

 larger social welfare. 



And the final application of the experi- 

 mental method in this connection lies just 

 in the determination of what women's vo- 

 cations are xdtimately to be. The older 

 society had no doubts. The religious, eco- 

 nomic, political and social status of woman 

 could all be deduced with perfect exact- 

 ness. It was as easy as the agreement of a 

 verb with its subject. The present equi- 

 librium is unstable. Is it not a scientific 

 method to work out the problem with care- 

 ful reference to the new conditions as they 

 emerge, rather than to decide by past his- 

 tory or fixed conceptions? 



In conclusion I may barely hint at a 

 question which no doubt arises as to the 

 bearing of this whole discussion on the col- 

 lege as a distinct organization. If profes- 

 sional education is to become liberalized, 

 what need of the college? And if the 

 spirit of investigation is the main factor, 

 why again the college? Why not the uni- 

 versity joined directly to the secondary 

 school? In the long run I think this is 

 likely to depend on the need of a factor 

 which has been barely referred to above. 

 Effective education depends in part on a 

 scientific factor, but there is also a per- 

 sonal factor. One must know his fellows 

 and how to cooperate with them. This is 

 increasingly important with the growing 

 complexity of society. And this efficiency 

 in dealing with others is not easily secured 

 in professional or graduate school where 

 the emphasis is on subject and method, and 

 the life is individualistic. If the college 

 can maintain a corporate life in which 



knowledge is vitalized, in which there is 

 actual give and take, actual sympathy and 

 friction, active interchange not only be- 

 tween mind and mind but between will 

 and will, then it will find its own place, 

 and live secure. 



James H. Tufts 

 Univeesitt of Chicago 



THE PROPOSED HAWAIIAN MEETINa IN 

 1910 



The action taken by the general cominittee 

 of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science at the Baltimore meeting in 

 again unanimously re-affirming a resolution 

 adopted at the Chicago meeting of a year ago 

 to the effect that it was desirable to hold a 

 meeting of the association in Honolulu dur- 

 ing the summer of 1910, provided suitable 

 arrangements can be made, is quite generally 

 regarded as a flattering acceptance of Hawaii's 

 cordial and urgent invitation. 



All Hawaii is united in the desire that 

 their invitation be extended to each of the 

 individual members of the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science, and of 

 the affiliated societies, and to their families 

 and friends. Keen delight is expressed at the 

 prospect of welcoming the scientific men of 

 America to the " Land of the Heart's Desire," 

 for such a meetiag and outing. Hawaii is 

 prepared and willing to do all in its power 

 to make the meeting a large, notable and im- 

 portant gathering not only of the scientific 

 men of America but of the other countries 

 that border on or have possessions in the 

 Pacific Ocean. To this end elaborate prepa- 

 rations are being made for the entertainment 

 of aU who may attend. 



A strong local committee has already been 

 formed. They have printed and ready for 

 general distribution a number of pamphlets 

 setting forth the things prospective visitors 

 wiU want to know about Hawaii. The prob- 

 able cost of the trip from the east will not 

 necessarily exceed $300. An especial booklet 

 emphasizing the desirability and advantages 

 of Honolulu as a summer meeting place and 

 the things of interest to be seen by the scien- 



