Febeuabt 2, 1917] 



SCIENCE 



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order of the universe — which so prolifically 

 creates, which so lavishly destroys, and which 

 through innumerable alternations of life and 

 death in some mysterious way ever climbs to 

 higher things. Chaeles E. Van Hise 



SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 



SCHOOL OF THE GENERAL EDUCATION BOARD 



Dr. Otis W. Caldwell, now head of the de- 

 partment of natural sciences in the school of 

 education of the University of Chicago, has 

 been appointed director of a new elementary 

 and secondary school to be established by the 

 General Education Board in connection with 

 Teachers College, Columbia University. The 

 general management will be vested in an ad- 

 ministrative committee composed of James E. 

 Russell, dean of Teachers College; Dr. Cald- 

 well, V. Everit Macy, Mrs. Willard D. Straight, 

 Felix M. Warburg, Arthur Turnbull, George 

 E. Vincent, Wiekliffe Eose, Charles P. How- 

 land and Abraham Flexner, subject to the au- 

 thority of Columbia University and Teachers 

 College. The plans contemplate discarding 

 Latin and Greek, which will be replaced in the 

 curriculum by modern languages, French, Ger- 

 man and Spanish. Science is to have a more 

 prominent place than in the ordinary school. 

 The school is understood to be planned to carry 

 out the ideas set forth in Dr. Abraham Flex- 

 ner's essay " The Modern School." The an- 

 nouncement given out by the General Educa- 

 tion Board says: 



Organized recreation, play and games will be 

 provided for. Constant efforts will be made by 

 means of individual, class and school excursions, by 

 means of pictures, lantern slides, charts, maps, 

 shop and laboratory, special reading matter, and 

 discussions to give the pupils sufficient contact with 

 their natural, industrial, social, economic, voca- 

 tional and domestic environment so as to derive 

 the basis for their school work from real situa- 

 tions, and thus make school work constantly real 

 to them. The school wiU frankly discard that 

 theory of education known as ' ' formal discipline, ' ' 

 and will undertake to secure training through the 

 careful and thorough study of subjects which are in 

 themselves valuable. It is believed that a much 

 more effective discipline can be thus secured. 



The new school, which vsrill open with part 

 of its classes in the fall of 1917, will admit boys 



and girls from 6 years of age up. It is stated 

 that tuition fees will be moderate and that 

 there will be free and partly free scholarships. 



THE EDWARD L. TRUDEAU FOUNDATION FOR 



RESEARCH AND TEACHING IN 



TUBERCULOSIS 



An endowment fund has been created as a 

 memorial to the late Dr. Edward L. Trudeau, 

 to perpetuate his name and to continue the 

 scientific investigations that were a life-long 

 interest of the American pioneer in tubercu- 

 losis research. The income is to be devoted to 

 the following purposes : 



1. To maintain laboratories and carry on re- 

 search into the nature, causes and treatment of 

 tuberculosis. 



2. To maintain regxdar courses of instruction 

 for physicians and others in the most advanced 

 knowledge of the above subject, under the name of 

 the Trudeau School of Tuberculosis. 



3. To offer young physicians the opportunity to 

 engage in research work, while undergoing treat- 

 ment for the disease, through the establishment of 

 fellowships. 



The trustees of the Trudeau Sanatorium are 

 to administer this fund, with the aid of an ad- 

 visory council of distinguished investigators 

 and teachers, consisting of Professor William 

 H. Welch and Professor Theodore C. Janeway, 

 of Johns Hopkins University; Di-. Hermann M. 

 Biggs, ISTew York State commissioner of 

 health; Dr. William H. Park, director of lab- 

 oratories, New York City Health Department; 

 Professor Theobald Smith, director of the de- 

 partment of animal pathology, Eockefeller In- 

 stitute; Professor Warfield T. Longcope, Co- 

 lumbia University ; Professor Thomas McCrae, 

 Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa.; 

 Dr. John H. Lowman, Western Eeserve Uni- 

 versity, Cleveland, O., and Dr. Vincent Y. 

 Bowditch, of Boston. 



The plans for researches in tuberculosis are 

 comprehensive in their scope, including the 

 fields of clinical and laboratory experimenta- 

 tion. The scientific study and treatment of 

 this disease under conditions favorable for the 

 continued, observation of patients with the best 

 facilities obtainable, will be encouraged in 



