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SCIENCE 



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lace-making and embroidery, and they have 

 ascertained that the demand for the kind of 

 work their children can turn out is practic- 

 ally unlimited. In an effort to increase the 

 available supply of teachers for the work, 

 courses in lace-making and embroidery have 

 been offered in the Philippine Normal School 

 since 1910, and also in the various vacation 

 assemblies of teachers. 



The first thing a Filipino girl does in the 

 sewing class in school is to make for herself 

 a complete outfit of clothing. This work she 

 usually begins in the second grade, but some- 

 times in the first or third. Armed with an 

 embroidery frame and other apparatus (in 

 most cases made by the boys in the same 

 school), she advances in proficiency through 

 the various grades; hemming and embroid- 

 ering cotton squares, fine linen, handker- 

 chiefs, waists, and so on. The more expert 

 girls turn out masterpieces in French net and 

 embroidery. In lace they make all varieties 

 of "pillow lace," including "torchon" (Span- 

 ish lace), Maltese, Ceylon or Indian, Irish 

 crochet, etc. Battenburg is also made for 

 local use, but it is not encouraged for export, 

 because the Japanese can make it more 

 cheaply. 



An idea of the extent of industrial educa- 

 tion in the Philippines may be gained from 

 the fact that nearly 400,000 school pupils are 

 engaged in some kind of industrial work. 

 For the past four years industrial instruction 

 has been prescribed in the primary course for 

 both boys and girls, and the work is systemat- 

 ically carried on in an advanced stage in the 

 intermediate schools. Twenty-six well- 

 equipped trade schools have been established 

 in Manila and the various provinces; there is 

 a college of agriculture at Los Banos, and a 

 college of engineering has been added to the 

 University of the Philippines. The Filipinos 

 take to the educational program, industrial 

 and otherwise, quickly and profitably; and 

 the civil government finds its duties much 

 less onerous now that the military invasion 

 of the islands has been superseded by the 

 educational. 



GBADUATES FROM AMESICAN COLLEGES 

 AND UNIVERSITIES 

 The Boston Transcript has printed an art- 

 icle by Mr. Henry T. Claus, who gives the 

 number of degrees conferred by 4Y colleges 

 and universities as follows: 



College 



Allegheny 63 35 64 



Amherst 95 97 96 



Bates 91 57 92 



Bowdoin 98 55 85 



Brown 210 187 193 



Bryn Mawr 77 68 70 



Carnegie Tech 242 . . 189- 



Clark 58 . . 35- 



Colby 69 38 38- 



Colgate 72 37 48- 



Columbia 1,504 788 1,334- 



Grinnell 76 51 83 



Hamilton . . , . , 47 30 



Harvard 1,000 1,033 1,003 



Indiana University 372 124 347 



Lehigh 85 45 95 



M. A. C 83 22 43 



Middlebury 55 19 55 



M. I. T 286 200 253 



Mount Holyoke 167 101 134 



New York University 583 339 545 



Northwestern 591 506 574 



Ohio State 501 141 422 



Penn State 266 28 247 



Princeton 327 291 268 



Radcliffe 117 100 84 



Rensselaer 118 21 71 



Rutgers 75 72 73 



Simmons 95 . . 73 



Smith 372 229 360 



Swarthmore 63 52 68 



Syracuse University 480 207 417 



Trinity 36 29 36 



Tufts 238 137 214 



Union 60 38 49 



University of Cincinnati 191 121 158 



University of Illinois 858 511 798 



University of Maine 109 67 133 



University of Michigan 1,143 858 1,093 



University of Missouri 432 153 383 



University of Pennsylvania .... 828 521 850 



University of Pittsburgh 284 170 260 



University of Vermont 96 80 109 



Wellesley 299 155 289 



Williams 93 67 97 



Worcester Polytechnic 77 44 77 



Yale 855 583 904 



TBE HARPSWELL LABORATORY 

 The following persons have carried on in- 

 vestigations during the summer of 1912 at 

 the Harpswell Laboratory: 



