June 11, 1915] 



SCIENCE 



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from the faculty, tlie alumni association, the stu- 

 dents, and a large number of citizens of the state 

 of Utah, the board has in all oases rejected, de- 

 claring that it alone is responsible for the manage- 

 ment of the university, that it has no doubts as to 

 the correctness of its past action and the rectitude 

 of its own motives and those of the president, and 

 that it therefore can not permit its action to be 

 influenced by protests coming from others. This 

 position seems to the committee to show that the 

 board fails to understand, or at least to act upon, 

 three fundamental facts: namely, that every insti- 

 tution of public education, and especially a state 

 university, requires for its success the confidence 

 and respect of the public; that there can be no 

 sure hold upon public confidence without an un- 

 flinching readiness to face publicity in regard to 

 all official acts and policies; and that the only ef- 

 fective way in which any public body can meet 

 serious charges brought by responsible persons is 

 by not merely permitting, but demanding a search- 

 ing and open inquiry into its methods. The com- 

 mittee gathers that the attitude taken by the board 

 has aroused on the part of a large section of the 

 local public, including a majority of the alumni 

 and of the students, a degree of suspicion, and 

 even hostility, which must be a continuing detri- 

 ment to the university's efficiency as an instru- 

 ment of public education, and must affect disad- 

 Tantageously the position and the work of teach- 

 ers in the institution. 



IBE PACIFIC DIVISION OF TBE AMEBIC AN 

 ASSOCIATION 



At a recent meeting of the Pacific Coast 

 Committee of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, the first execu- 

 tive committee of the Pacific Division was 

 elected in accordance with the provisions of 

 the constitution of the division. The officers 

 of the division have been elected by the execu- 

 tive committee. The result of these elections 

 is as follows : 



President: Dr. W. W. Campbell, Lick Observa- 

 tory, Mt. Hamilton. 



Vice-president: Dr. D. T. MacDougal, Carnegie 

 Desert Laboratory, Tucson. 



Secretary-Treasurer: Albert L. Barrows, Uni- 

 versity of California. 



Executive Committee: Theodore 0. Frye, Uni- 

 versity of Washington; Edward C. Franklin, Stan- 

 ford University; C. E. Grunsky, San Francisco; 



George E. Hale, Mt. Wilson Solar Observatory, 

 Pasadena; Vernon L. Kellogg, Stanford Univer- 

 sity; Andrew C. Lawson, University of California; 

 E. Percival Lewis, University of California. 



The Pacific Division is now supported by 

 about one thousand of the members of the 

 American Association resident within the re- 

 gion and by affiliations with twelve local scien- 

 tific societies. After the San Francisco meet- 

 ing of the American Association during the 

 first week of next Aug-ust, the recently elected 

 officers of the division will carry on the work 

 of the association on the Pacific coast which 

 up to this time has been conducted by the 

 Pacific Coast Committee. The first meeting 

 of the Pacific Division will be held in the 

 spring of 1916. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Columbia Univeesity has conferred its doc- 

 torate of science on Robert S. Griffin, rear- 

 admiral and engineer-in-chief, U. S. Navy, 

 and Arthur L. Day, director of the geophys- 

 ical laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington. 



The Stevens Institute of Technology has 

 conferred the degree of doctor of science on 

 Otto H. Tittmann, for many years superin- 

 tendent of the United States Coast and Geo- 

 detic Survey. 



Dr. V. G. Heiser has resigned as director 

 of health in the Philippines, to accept the 

 position of director for the Orient of the work 

 of the Rockefeller Foundation. 



Dr. Richard H. Creel, of the Federal 

 Health Bureau, has declined the offer of the 

 post of health commissioner of Boston. 



Dr. Elwood Mead, who has accepted a call 

 to the newly established professorship of 

 rural institutions in the University of Cali- 

 fornia, has been appointed by Secretary Lane 

 chairman of a central board of review of the 

 committees on revision of reclamation pro- 

 ject costs. 



A TESTIMONIAL dinner was tendered to Dr. 

 Leo Loeb at the University Club, St. Louis, 

 on May 25, by members of the medical pro- 

 fession of St. Louis, the scientific faculties 



