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carry, the higher value of advanced over 

 elementary work being kept in mind. 



(d) To be eligible to the bachelor's de- 

 gree a student must have completed the 

 equivalent of three (preferably four) years 

 of instruction in coUegiate work. In this 

 must be included the major work of some 

 one department, with such minors as may 

 be indicated by the head of such depart- 

 ment, and also such electives as may be 

 approved by the "major professor" at the 

 time of registration. 



(e) A student may change his "major 

 department" on petition (and with the 

 consent of the professors concerned). In 

 this case the work done as major becomes 

 a minor, and the back work of the new 

 major must be made good. 



(/) Departments should stand on a basis 

 of academic equality, no student being 

 obliged by the college to take one subject 

 rather than another. Such prescription of 

 studies should be the work of the major 

 professor. 



The colleges in New Zealand should de- 

 vote themselves primarily to the actual 

 needs of New Zealand. The professorship 

 should carry greater power and greater 

 responsibility than now, and much of the 

 work of the council should be transferred 

 to the four professorial boards. 



6. Degrees should not be granted for 

 extra-mural study, and in general not for 

 attendance on night lectures or extension 

 lectures. 



To do work really worthy of university 

 recognition, the student should enter the 

 university atmosphere. He should make 

 all possible use of teachers, laboratories and 

 libraries. 



7. Taxation of university students is the 

 most oppressive form of state taxation. 



8. In general, the professor as teacher 

 has far too little initiative in the colleges 

 of New Zealand. The students with their 



varied interests and varied talents should 

 be the first consideration of the university. 

 Honors may be granted on the judgment 

 of the professorial body. It is impossible 

 to arrange good students in linear series, 

 as each one should be striving for a goal of 

 his own. David Stare Jordan 



Stanfoed Univebsitt 



THE AMERICAN A8S0GIATI0W FOR THE 



ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. SUMMER 



MEETING, SECTION E— GEOLOGY 



AND GEOGRAPHY^ 



Section E of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science held a 

 summer field meeting at and near Platts- 

 burg, N. Y., July 3-11, inclusive, to which 

 all members of the Geological Society of 

 America and the Association of American 

 Geographers were invited. The number in 

 attendance at the meeting was forty-four. 

 The section was fortunate in having de- 

 lightful weather for all of the excursions, 

 there being no rain to interfere with the 

 field trips until noon of the last day, when 

 the party were assembled under the hos- 

 pitable roof of Professor Kemp 's house on 

 Lake George. 



The preliminary trip on July 3 was made 

 to visit "The Gulf" at Covey hill. This 

 drive of some thirty miles from IMooers, N. 

 T., across the Canadian boundary was ex- 

 ceedingly interesting to all students of 

 glacial geography. The marine and glacial 

 shorelines were visited on the route west- 

 ward from Mooers, and the party stopped 

 for lunch in "The Gulf," near the two 

 lakes which show the location of the gorge 

 that represents the ancestor of Niagara. 

 The noon talk, given by J. B. AVoodworth, 

 who has worked out the glacial history of 

 this region, was on 



ABANDONED SHORELINES 



At "The Gulf" Professor Woodworth 

 spoke in substance as follows: "The Gulf" 

 'Plattsburg, New York, July 3-11. 



