SCIENCE 



Friday, October 25, 1912 



CONTENTS 



The Migration of Students: Professor E. P. 

 Lton 533 



The Geographical Distribution of the Student 

 Body at a Number of Universities and Col- 

 leges: Professor Rudolf Tombo, Jr. .... 543 



The Smithsonian Expedition to Study the 

 Heat of the Sun 550 



Professor Morris Loeb 551 



Scientific Notes and News 551 



University and Educational News 555 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



' ' Theoretical Astronomy ' ' : Professor W. 

 W. Campbell. The Unanimous Vote Bute 

 in the International Commission on Zoolog- 

 ical Nomenclature: Dr. C. W. Stiles. 

 Symbolic Statement of Relationships: Ar- 

 THtm E. BOSTWICK 557 



Scientific Books: — 



Brooks and Poyser's Magnetism and Elec- 

 tricity: Professor J. H. Moreceoft. Timi- 

 riazeff on The Life of the Plant: G. T. M. 

 Salant and Eieger on Caffein: William N. 

 Berg. Sampson's Catalogue of the Lepi- 

 doptera Phalcence: Dr. Harrison G. Dyar . 560 



Special Articles: — 



The Nature of the Fertilization Membrane 

 of the Egg of the Sea Urchin: G. L. Kite. 

 Artificial Cells resembling Sea-urchins' 

 Eggs in Certain of their Physical Proper- 

 ties: Dr. E. Newton Harvey. A Method 

 of Determining the Average Length of Life 

 of Farm Equipment: Dr. W. J. Spillman 562 



The Quarter Centennial of the Iowa Academy 

 of Science: L. S. Boss 568 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Philosophical Society of the University 

 of Virginia: Professor Wm. A. Kepner. 

 The Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society: 

 Professor James M. Bell 570 



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

 reTiew should be sent to the Editor of Scibkce, Garrison-on- 

 HudsoB, N. Y. 



THE MIGRATION OF STUDENTS'- 

 A PLEA FOR THE INDIVIDUAL IN EDUCATION 



The chairman of our judicial council, 

 Dr. Means^ in a recent address on " The 

 Relations of the Medical Colleges in the 

 Matter of the Migration of Students," has 

 stated that these relations should be ad- 

 justed on the basis of the Golden Rule. 

 With this I heartily agree. I would, how- 

 ever, call attention to the wording of the 

 Golden Rule, "Do unto others." This 

 seems to imply that our relationships are 

 multiple rather than duplex. 



There is hardly a problem in ethics to be 

 settled on the basis of "Thou" and "I" 

 alone. No case of migrating students 

 should be considered from the standpoint 

 of the colleges alone. In every instance 

 the public or state has a claim on our con- 

 sideration, for we are the servants of the 

 state in the making of physicians. 



We are also in a peculiar and intimate 

 degree responsible to the student himself. 

 We take his money; we take what is more 

 valuable than money, his time. We modify 

 his whole life. To take out the human ele- 

 ment from our work; to claim that the 

 student acts always of his own free will; 

 to make our colleges by inflexible rules 

 mere mechanisms for grinding out as doc- 



* Head before the Association of American Med- 

 ical Colleges, March 1, 1932. Eeaders of this 

 paper should bear in mind the legal restrictions 

 on medical educational institutions, which other 

 departments of education are not subject to. 

 These cover such topics as length and number of 

 yearly sessions required for graduation, admission, 

 advanced standing, credit from other institutions, 

 etc. It should also be noted that medical schools 

 have on their faculties numerous professors who 

 are primarily in medical practise and only inci- 

 dentally acting as teachers. 



