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, tailed statement of receipts and expenditures, and 

 a brief outline of the work done during the fiscal 

 year. This statement shall be sent annually to 

 the officers of each association in the federation. 



On recominendation of the executive 

 committee it was voted that, pending the 

 report of the committee on policy as to 

 publication, the executive committee be au- 

 thorized to print the reports and documents 

 of the federation in such of the established 

 journals as it may select. 



At the meeting in 1906 in New York no 

 officers were elected, but only an executive 

 committee appointed. The articles of fed- 

 eration having now been formally approved 

 by the meeting, the following officers were 

 elected for the year 1908 : 



President — H. W. Tyler, Association of Mathe- 

 matics Teachers of New England. 



8ecretary-treasurer — C. K. Marji, Central Asso- 

 ciation of Science and Mathematics Teachers. 



Additional Members of the Executive Committee 

 — R. E. Dodge, New York State Science Teachers' 

 Association; F. N. Peters, Missouri Society of 

 Teachers of Mathematics and Science ; J. T. Rorer, 

 Association of Mathematics Teachers of the Middle 

 feiates and Maryland. 



It was announced that the application 

 of the federation for affiliation with the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science had been approved by that body, 

 and that this affiliation entitled the federa- 

 tion to elect a representative to the council 

 of that body. On nomination, duly sec- 

 onded, the president of the federation, Pro- 

 fessor H. W. Tyler, was elected as the rep- 

 resentative of the federation to the council 

 of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science. 



The questions : What can be accom- 

 plished by the federation that can not be 

 accomplished by existing machinery? and. 

 What does an association gain by joining 

 the federation? were raised and discussed 

 at length. Instead of trying to reproduce 

 this discussion, the executive committee is 

 preparing a statement of the purposes and 



proposed policy of the federation, and tl»is 

 will be issued in the near future. 



The meeting adjourned, subject to the 

 call of the executive committee. 



C. E. Mann, 

 Secretary 

 The University of Chicago 



TEE COLLEGE AND THE UNIVERSITY^ 

 The American university of to-day is a 

 compound of two divergent and more or 

 less antagonistic elements, which in the 

 current academic languages, we call the 

 college and the university. The college is 

 in theory a place for general culture, for 

 training the mind, broadening the intel- 

 lectual horizon, and, so far as may be, ma- 

 king, by tasks physical, moral and mental, 

 a man or woman better fitted for the work 

 of the world. The university is a place 

 of training for one's specific duties in life. 

 Its functions include training for pro- 

 fessional work, whatever the profession 

 may be. Its general method is that of in- 

 struction through investigation, and its re- 

 lation to the student is in many ways 

 different from the task-setting work of the 

 college. It demands for its teachers a 

 somewhat different talent, that of creative 

 work, and of the power and the will in 

 one way or another to add to the sum of 

 human knowledge. 



Our colleges are English in their origin. 

 Our universities are German in their in- 

 spiration and method. Thus far in Amer- 

 ica the one has in a way antagonized the 

 other. There has been a tendency to build 

 up the university work by neglect of the 

 collegiate work. Very many institutions 

 have given instruction in professional or 

 technical subjects of university grade to 

 students who have had no collegiate train- 

 ing, often even no work of the still lower 

 grade we call secondary instruction. On 



'Extract from the Report of the President of 

 Stanford University for 1906-7. 



