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teachers for high schools, whenever the 

 bachelor's course is regarded as the maxi- 

 mum obtainable preparation. The college 

 student who desires to become a specialist 

 in school hygiene or a public sanitarian 

 may omit the regular medical course and 

 proceed from the bachelor's degree to the 

 doctor of philosophy in hygiene or to the 

 new degree of doctor of public health. In 

 order to open this field to college men and 

 women, candidates for the bachelor of arts 

 in education should be permitted to fol- 

 low hygiene as a major subject, extending 

 through at least three years and properly 

 correlated with other sciences, cultural and 

 professional courses. In the courses, hy- 

 giene, preventive medicine, physiology and 

 psychiatry, the medical department may 

 be utilized. The following typical plan 

 for grouping of studies for prospective 

 teachers in college makes possible the 

 choice of such a major subject and at the 

 same time affords in the four years follow- 

 ing the high school: (1) a basis of general 

 culture in the languages, mathematics, sci- 

 ences and history; (2) the essentials of 

 pedagogy; (3) opportunity for increasing 

 specialization under the direction of com- 

 petent advisers. 



ful guidance and with proper restrictions. 

 4. In the study of the school problems of 

 elimination, retardation, repeating and of 

 the exceptional child, the department of 

 education should lead. The educational 

 laboratory, and psychological clinic, an 

 adjunct to the laboratory of psychology, is 

 the point for concentration of effort upon 

 these problems, by cooperation of psychol- 

 ogist, physician, sociologist and teacher. 

 The demonstrated value of the modem 

 psychological clinic must be rescued and 

 preserved from the errors and excesses of 

 incapable men and women, whether in 

 medicine or in education. 



David Spence Hill 



TULANE UNIVEESITY 



The electives (major and related sub- 

 jects) courses should be chosen under care- 



tb:e educational wobk of a gbeat 



MUSEUM^ 

 The educational work of a museum should 

 be governed entirely by the purposes for which 

 the museum is established. The very greatest 

 museums may give pleasure to the public, may 

 educate the more intelligent groups of people, 

 among which are college graduates, may edu- 

 cate such classes as teachers and children, and 

 should not neglect the education of the masses. 

 One of the most important services to educa- 

 tion which a great museum can accomplish is 

 to carry on surveys, explorations and original 

 investigation, and it is only from such work 

 that any facts are learned which may in turn 

 be given out to mankind by means of eshibits, 

 popular guide-books, scientific reports, lec- 

 tures and contributions to encyclopedias, text- 

 books, popular magazines and newspaper ac- 

 counts. Great care should be taken that 

 research work is never neglected in the stam- 

 pede for "popularization." Such great mu- 

 seums may also have departments for special 



'An abstract of an illustrated lecture delivered, 

 in anticipation of the opening of the Victoria 

 Memorial Museum, the national museum of Can- 

 ada, at the inauguration in Ottawa of free lectures 

 to the people under school board control, No- 

 vember 10, 1911. 



