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something must be done to make our schools 

 more effective than they are. In a recent re- 

 port of the Consultative Committee, the Board 

 of Education is advised that the schools have 

 failed, in the past, to develop both the moral 

 and mental qualities which are desirable, and 

 that we must now strive to make the teaching 

 far more practical, manual training being 

 openly and strongly advocated. We read, 

 moreover, " It would seem clear to the com- 

 mittee that the thing needed is not only knowl- 

 edge, but a right attitude of mind, a mind 

 confident in its own power to observe and 

 think, and in the habit of observing and think- 

 ing — a mind in which interest makes for intel- 

 ligence and intelligence for interest." " The 

 course," it is stated, " should consist of three 

 threads or strands, roughly to be termed hu- 

 manistic, scientific and manual, and, in the 

 case of girls, domestic; all higher elementary 

 schools should give this threefold instruction." 

 Though these views have been urged by many 

 educational reformers for thirty years or more, 

 the doctrine they involve is really quite revolu- 

 tionary coming from such a quarter, especially 

 as it is directed to the Board of Education, 

 which treats manual training as a special 

 subject for the select few. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The new building for the engineering de- 

 partment of the University of Pennsylvania 

 will be dedicated on October 19. 



The Princeton correspondent of the Eve- 

 ning Post writes : " The handsome new faculty 

 room in Nassau Hall is now completed, and 

 the university faculty holds its meetings there. 

 The room is finished in old English quartered 

 oak panelling, and the faculty, when in ses- 

 sion, are seated on long benches on each side 

 of the room, facing each other, after the man- 

 ner of the seating of the English House of 

 Commons. The room has been refitted from 

 a fund left by the late Augustus Van Wickle, 

 a descendant of Nathaniel Eitz Randolph, who 

 gave the original Princeton campus, on which 

 Nassau Hall is situated. This hall is eventu- 

 ally to become the administrative building of 

 the university, the offices of administration to 



be grouped about the main faculty room. It 

 was in the room now used by the faculty that 

 Congress met for five 'months in 1783, Nassau 

 Hall being at that time the capitol of the new 

 republic. In the historic room a special audi- 

 ence was given to Washington; there also the 

 minister of the Netherlands, General Lafayette 

 and nearly all the prominent public men of 

 America were received." 



Dr. James Barnes, instructor in physics at 

 the Johns Hopkins University, has been ap- 

 pointed associate in physics at Bryn Mawr 

 College. 



The following promotions and appointments 

 have been made in the chemical department 

 of the College of the City of New York: 

 Assistant Professor H. E. Moody, Ph.D., to 

 be associate professor in charge of analytical 

 chemistry; Instructor L. H. Eriedburg, Ph.D., 

 to be assistant professor in charge of organic 

 chemistry; Mr. Reston Stevenson, M.S. (North 

 Carolina), formerly assistant in Cornell Uni- 

 versity, to be tutor in analytical chemistry; 

 Mr. W. A. Whitaker, Jr., M.S. (Columbia), 

 to be tutor in general chemistry; and Mr. 

 Lorenz Sporer, B.S. (Plobart), to be assistant 

 tutor in the same subject. 



At Boston University Assistant Professor 

 Arthur W. Weysse and Lyman C. Newell have 

 been made professors of biology and of chem- 

 try, respectively. 



Professor George V. N. Dearborn, of Tufts 

 College, has been appointed lecturer and in- 

 structor in the relations of body and mind in 

 the Sargent School of Physical Education, 

 Cambridge. 



Dr. G. Hauser, professor of pathology at 

 Erlangen, has declined a call to Wiirzburg, in 

 succession to Dr. von Rindfleisch. 



At University College, London, the follow- 

 ing appointments have been made: Mr. A. 

 Wolf, D.Litt., assistant professor of philos- 

 ophy; Mr. V. H. Blackman, M.A., lecturer in 

 plant cytology in the department of botany; 

 Mr. N. G. Dunbar, demonstrator in the de- 

 partment of applied mathematics; Messrs. E. 

 Foxell, W. H. Gibson and H. E. Watson, as- 

 sistant demonstrators in the department of 

 chemistry. 



