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None, but in the course in school man- 

 agement and also in a course of school ad- 

 ministration and supervision some atten- 

 tion is given to matters relating to school 

 hygiene. In the further expansion of the 

 department of education in the University 

 of Texas it is hoped that provision will be 

 made for the establishment and mainte- 

 nance of a school of physical education, in 

 which school a number of courses will be 

 conducted. 



Leland Stanford Junior University. Ex- 

 ecutive Head E. L. Miller, Department 

 of Medicine, San Francisco, Cal. 

 The courses for medical students in 

 physiology, anatomy, chemistry, bacteriol- 

 ogy and embryology are all given immedi- 

 ately at the university. Many students 

 from the educational department take them 

 and all can do so if they have proper pre- 

 liminary work. Certificates or diplomas 

 are awarded only as parts of the work 

 leading to the university degrees. In 

 the educational department about 30 

 students take course 28, physical aspect of 

 the child (Professor Terman) ; and about 

 50 take course 29, school hygiene (Pro- 

 fessor Terman). A few of these will later 

 complete a medical course and take up 

 school hygiene as a profession. 

 The Tulane University of Louisiana, New 

 Orleans, La. Dean Dyer, Medical De- 

 partment. 



None at present. Projected courses for 

 teachers and prospective teachers in de- 

 partment of hygiene and preventive medi- 

 cine. 



Professor Hill, Psychology and Education. 

 Arrangements are nearly completed 

 whereby candidates for the B.A. degree in 

 education, prospective teachers, may elect 

 hygiene for their major subject. The work 

 in hygiene will be partly under the direc- 

 tion of Professor Creighton Wellman, of 

 the school of tropical medicine and hygiene. 



The administrators also have made an ap- 

 propriation for a laboratory of psychology 

 for Neweomb College, an adjunct of which 

 will be a psychological clinic for the study 

 of the problems of childhood. In this work 

 members of the medical staff, it is intended, 

 will cooperate with psychologist, teacher 

 and sociologist. The work of the labora- 

 tory begins in 1912. 



The reasons for the advocacy of a more 

 effective cooperation of physicians and 

 teachers within such departments may 

 now appear from consideration of several 

 aspects of the subject. The basis of mod- 

 ern teaching is experimental and genetic 

 psychology. The need of contact between 

 physician and teacher in the study of 

 scientific psychology is recognized in the 

 problem of psychopathic conditions of 

 childhood. Dr. J. B. "Wallace "Wallin in a 

 recent number of the Journal of Educa- 

 tional Psychology has summarized the data 

 concerning the growth of clinics for the 

 study of psychopathic conditions in school 

 children. In these educational laboratories 

 psychologists, physicians and educators 

 unite in studying the problems of the ex- 

 ceptional child whose unprovided for pres- 

 ence in our schools is to-day potent in af- 

 fecting the lives of the majority of the 

 pupils and the teacher. Notable among 

 such institutions are Professor Goddard's 

 laboratory at Vineland, N. J., Professor 

 Witmer's clinic at the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, Dr. Healy's in Chicago and the 

 Psychological Clinic conducted by the 

 Gatzert Foundation for Child Welfare of 

 the University of Washington, as well as 

 others existing or projected. The recent 

 discussion participated in by Myer, Wat- 

 son and others in Washington during the 

 meeting of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science concerning 

 the relation of the psychology of the acad- 

 emic department to the work of the medi- 



