SCIENCE 



Friday, Juke 7, 1918 



CONTENTS 



University Ideals and iheir Limitations : Pro- 

 fessor Percy M. Dawson 547 



Scientific Events: — 



New Eastern National Forests; Alasl'a 

 Fishery and Fur Products in 1917 ; Botan- 

 ical Abstracts 557 



Scientific Notes and News 558 



University and Educational News 561 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



On the Antiquity of Man in America: Dr. 

 W. H. Holmes. Note on Sudan III.: B. 

 E. Read 561 



Scientific Boolcs: — 

 Lord Lister: Db. W. W. Keen 563 



Notes on Meteorology and Climatology: Dr. 

 Charles F. Brooks 5C5 



Special Articles: — 



Concerning Selective Permeability: Dr. C. 

 G. MacArthuk 567 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 



Section B; Physics: Professor G. W. Stew- 

 art 569 



MSS. iDteDd«d for pubUeation and books, etc., intended for 

 review should be sent to The Editor of Science, Garriaon-on- 

 Hudson, N. Y. 



UNIVERSITY IDEALS AND THEIR 

 LIMITATIONS! 



When I was asked to address the 

 "Forum," it was with a thrill of pleasure 

 that I accepted, for I felt that this invita- 

 tion would give me the opportunity of ad- 

 dressing the soul of the student body, for 

 this student body has a youthful, forceful 

 soul, where a clearly conceived and beau- 

 tiful idealism aspires to adequate self-ex- 

 pression. 



It may seem unnatural to some of you 

 that I should find it possible to speak to- 

 day upon a topic which has no special re- 

 lation to the great war. In so doing, how- 

 ever, I have merely followed the example of 

 Professor George Sarton, who so recently 

 delighted and instructed us in his lectures 

 on "The New Humanism," and my spe- 

 cial reason for imitating this distinguished 

 Belgian is that, whatever may be our part 

 in the great struggle now in progress, our 

 outlook on this or any other crisis must of 

 necessity be from the point of view of 

 university men, men whose acts are directed 

 and whose thoughts are inspired by uni- 

 versity ideals. It is therefore as imper- 

 ative at this time as at any other to enquire 

 into the natue of these university ideals, 

 which have been our heritage from the past 

 and form our background in the present and 

 who.se influence is none the less profound 

 in that we are generally quite unconscious 

 of its operation. 



The terms "university" and "state uni- 

 versity" are quite distinct. The institu- 

 tions so named may have very little in 



1 Address delivered before "The Wisconsin 

 Forum," January 20, 1918, at the University of 

 Wisconsin. 



