Januabt 7, 1910] 



SCIENCE 



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April 12 — "Disposal of Garbage," by Mr. Ed- 

 ward D. Very. 



April 15 — " Disposal of Putrescible Materials," 

 by Mr. Edward D. Very. 



April 19 — " Manufacture of Gas," by Dr. Arthur 

 H. Elliott, chemist to the Consolidated Gas Com- 

 pany, New York City. 



April 22 — "Means of Testing the Properties 

 and Quality of Gas," by Dr. Arthur H. Elliott. 



April 26 — " The Smoke Problem," by Dr. Arthur 

 H. Elliott. 



April 29 — "Ventilation," by Dr. Herbert R. 

 Moody, associate professor of chemistry, College 

 of the City of New York. 



May 3 — " The Chemistry of Personal Hygiene," 

 by Dr. Thomas A. Storey, director of the depart- 

 ment of physical education. College of the City of 

 New York. 



May 6 — Dr. Charles Edward A. Winslow, biolo- 

 gist in charge Sanitary Research Laboratory, Bos- 

 ton, associate professor-elect of biology, College of 

 the City of New York. 



May 10 — " Paint and Painting," by Mr. Maxi- 

 milian Toeh, chairman New York Section, Society 

 of Chemical Industry, and paint expert. 



May 13 — " Corrosion of Metals and its Preven- 

 tion," by Mr. Maximilian Toch. 



May 17 — " Cement and Concrete," by Mr. Maxi- 

 milian Toch. 



May 20 — " Combustibles and the Causes of 

 Fires," by Dr. A. A. Breneman, expert to the 

 Municipal Explosives Commission, New York City. 



May 24 — " Methods of Extinguishing Fires," by 

 Dr. A. A. Breneman. 



May 27 — " City Parks, Gardens and Play- 

 grounds," by Dr. N. L. Britton, director of the 

 Botanical Gardens, Bronx Park, New York City. 



COMPULSORY CONCENTRATION AND DIS- 

 TRIBUTION OF STUDIES IN HARVARD 

 COLLEGE 



In pursuance of the resolutions of the gov- 

 erning board of Harvard University, printed 

 in Science for December 17, the Faculty of 

 Arts and Sciences, at its meetings on Decem- 

 ber 14 and 21, adopted the following rules, 

 which will go into effect with the class enter- 

 ing in 1910 : 



I. Every student shall take at least six of 

 his courses in some one department, or in one 

 of the recognized fields for distinction. In 

 the latter case four must be in one department. 



Only two of the six may be courses open to 

 freshmen or distinctly elementary in char- 

 acter. 



II. For purposes of distribution all the 

 courses open to undergraduates shall be di- 

 vided among the following four general groups. 

 Every student shall distribute at least six of 

 his courses among the three general groups 

 in which his chief work does not lie, and he 

 shall take in each group not less than one 

 course, and not less than three in any two 

 groups. He shall not count for purposes of 

 distribution more than two courses which are 

 also listed in the group in which his main 

 work lies. The groups and branches are : 



1. Language, Literature, Fine Arts, Music, 

 (a) Ancient Languages and Literatures. 

 (6) Modern Languages and Literatures, 

 (o) Fine Arts, Music. 



2. Natural Sciences. 



(a) Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Engi- 

 neering. 

 (6) Biology, Physiology, Geology, Mining. 



3. History, Political and Social Sciences, 

 (a) History. 



(6) Politics, Economics, Sociology, Educa- 

 tion, Anthropology. 



4. Philosophy and Mathematics. 

 {a) Philosophy. 



{ 6 ) Mathematics. 



The committee was granted authority to 

 arrange the various courses under the different 

 groups and sub-groups by agreement with the 

 departments in which the courses are given. 



III. Prescribed work shall not count either- 

 for concentration or distribution. 



The Committee on the Choice of Eleetives 

 was instructed in administering these general 

 rules for the choice of eleetives by candidates, 

 for a degree in Harvard College to make ex- 

 ceptions to the rules freely in the case of 

 earnest men who desire to change at a later 

 time the plans made in their freshman year, 

 and to make liberal allowances for earnest stu- 

 dents who show that their courses are well 

 distributed, even though they may not con- 

 form exactly to the rules laid down for dis- 

 tribution. In making exceptions to the rules, 

 a man's previous training and outside read- 

 ing are to be taken into account. 



