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SCIENCE. 



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G. H. Perkins, Professor of Geology. 



1. General course. Senior elective. A survey 

 of the ethnological, social, moral and intellectual 

 characteristics of the principal races of the world, 

 followed by a discussion of the origin and develop- 

 ment of laws, government, arts, industries, lan- 

 guage, literature and religious systems. 



Professor Emerson. 

 1. Social institutions. 



UNIVERSITY OP WISCONSIN, MADISON. 



Joseph Jastrow, Ph.D., Professor of Psy- 

 chology, offers one course bearing on an- 

 thropology. It is entitled, ' Mental Evolu- 

 tion ' and is based on Tylor's Anthropology. 



WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY, CLEVELAND, 

 OHIO. 



M. M. Curtis, Professor of Philosophy, 

 gives a course of lectures on the history of 

 anthropology, its main problems and bear- 

 ings. 



WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY, SALEM, OREGON. 



President "Willis C. Hawley, Professor 

 of Sociology, offers a course in anthropology 

 for juniors and seniors consisting of text, 

 lectures and assigned readings. Two hours 

 a week for the year. 



YALE UNIVERSITY, NEW HAVEN, CONN. 



William G. Sumner, LL.D., Professor of 

 Political and Social Science. 



What Professor Sumner offers is de- 

 scribed by himself as follows: "Somatic 

 -anthropology has no independent place in 

 the undergraduate curriculum. It is 

 taught as an adjunct to the social sciences 

 by test-books and lectures. Two hours per 

 week. Special students in the Graduate 

 School have lessons in the subject as pre- 

 sented in Ranke 's ' Der Mensch, ' with lec- 

 tures, other literature and museum illus- 

 trations." The last named course has 

 hitherto been given on alternate years. 



E. Hershey Sneath, Ph.D., Professor of 

 Philosophy. 



1. Philosophical anthropology. An outline 

 study of man, his body and mind in their rela- 



tions, his relations to nature, to his fellows, and 

 to God. 



Of the thirty-one universities and col- 

 leges offering anthropology, it is found to 

 be an adjunct of sociology in nine, of phi- 

 losophy in five, of psychology in three, of 

 geology and zoology in five, and of medi- 

 cine in one ; while in five instances it stands 

 practically alone and in three it is un- 

 classified. 



The process of differentiation has al- 

 ready taken place in the larger institutions 

 and is destined to reach all at an early date. 

 If about four fifths of those who are teach- 

 ing the subject are impelled to do so be- 

 cause of its important bearing on their 

 chosen field of work and because there is, 

 at present, no one else to do it, they have a 

 right to depend on being relieved of this 

 additional burden by their own students, 

 some of whom will specialize in anthro- 

 pology and hold professorships where none 

 now exists. 



This seems to be the normal line of de- 

 velopment and would of itself, in time, 

 suffice to carry instruction in anthropology 

 to every growing college and university in 

 America. But there is evidence of forces 

 at work which will serve to accelerate the 

 general forward movement. An instance 

 of this is the founding of a ' Department 

 of Archaeology' at Phillips Academy, An- 

 dover, Massachusetts, with two instructors, 

 a collection of 40,000 specimens and funds 

 to carry on the work. 



No institution of higher learning, worthy 

 of the name, can long afford to be without 

 advantages which can be had at a first class 

 preparatory school. 



George Grant Mac Curdy. 



New Haven, Conn. 



ON THE MEASUREMENT OF TIME. 

 In the period of the earth's rotation on 

 its axis, called the sidereal day. Nature has 

 provided a convenient, easily determined 



