

SCIENCE 



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Friday, April 20, 1917 



CONTENTS 

 The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 



Obstacles to Educational Progress: Pko- 

 PESSOR Ellwood p. Cubbekley 369 



Hunter or Hushandman: Professor J. G. 

 Needham 376 



Scientific Events: — 



The Teachers' School of Science; The Uni- 

 versity of Michigan Medical School and Na- 

 tional Service; British Government Grants 

 for Scientific Research 377 



Scientific Notes and News 379 



University and Educational News 383 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Bole of Boyle's Law in Clinical Sphyg- 

 momanometry : Professor Joseph Er- 

 LANGER. The Unit of Pressure: Professor 

 Alexander McAdie. A Belief Map of the 

 United States: Dr. George P. Merrill. 384 



Quotations : — 

 Research in Medical Schools 385 



Scientific BooTcs: — 

 Leith and Mead on Metamorphio Geology: 

 Dr. J. P. IDDINGS 386 



Special Articles: — 

 A Plant Membrane for Demonstrating Os- 

 m,osis: Orville Turner Wilson 388 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 meiit of Science: — 



Section D — Engineering : Professor Akthur 

 J. Blanchard 389 



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

 review should be sent to Professor J. McKeen Cattell, Garrison- 

 on-Hudson, N. Y. 



OBSTACLES TO EDUCATIONAL 

 PROGRESS! 



It is only a commonplace, I know, to say 

 that the serious study of educational or- 

 ganization and administration is largely a 

 product of the past quarter of a century, 

 and that the largest contributions to our 

 knowledge in these fields have been made 

 by students during the sixteen years that 

 belong to the twentieth century. Yet I need 

 to say it as an introduction to the thesis I 

 wish to set up. The past decade and a half 

 have witnessed a remarkable change in atti- 

 tude toward the study of education. 

 Never before have so many capable men 

 and women directed their attention to a 

 serious study of educational theory and 

 the problems surrounding the proper or- 

 ganization and administration of public 

 education, and never before has the type 

 of the men and women preparing for en- 

 trance to the state's educational service 

 been so high as at present. 



Schools of education, which now exist in 

 nearly all our leading universities, are al- 

 most entirely a twentieth-century product, 

 and are becoming so organized as to render 

 an increasingly important service in train- 

 ing for educational leadership and service. 

 Our knowledge on educational questions, 

 derived in part from our administrative ex- 

 perience, is being rapidly organized into 

 teaching form; fundamental principles in 

 school organization and administration are 

 being established; and a better trained 

 body of administrative oiificers, with larger 

 and broader vision as to means and ends 



1 Address of the vice-president and chairman 

 of Section L, American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science. 



