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February 1 — "Social Psychology," Professor 

 Charles H. Judd, University of Chicago. 



February 2 — " Memory and Imagination," Pro- 

 fessor E. B. Titchener, Cornell University. 



February 3 — " Frailties of Imageless Thought," 

 Professor J. R. Angell, University of Chicago. 



February 4 — '• The Standpoint and Scope of 

 Social Psychology," Professor Mary Whiton Cal- 

 kins, Wellesley College. 



February 6 — " The Psychology of Dream 

 States," Professor Joseph Jastrow, University of 

 Wisconsin. 



February 7 — " The Role of the Type in Simple 

 Mental Processes," Professor W. B. Pillsbury, 

 University of Michigan. 



February 8 — " The Ontological Problem of Psy- 

 chology," Professor George T. Ladd, Yale Uni- 

 versity. 



February 9 — " Some Psychological Topics Em- 

 phasized by Pragmatism," Professor Josiah Royce, 

 Harvard University. 



The new Oeeanographic Institute, which 

 Prince Albert of Monaco has erected on a 

 part of the site of the old convent of the 

 Dames de Saint-Michel in the Rue Saint- 

 Jacques, was formally inaugurated on Jan- 

 uary 23. We learn from the London Times 

 that the opening ceremony was performed by 

 Prince Albert in the presence of President 

 Pallieres, M. Emile Loubet, members of the 

 government and the principal dignitaries of 

 the university and city of Paris. In his in- 

 augural address Prince Albert explained the 

 motives which had prompted the foundation 

 of the new Institute in Paris and the purpose 

 which he had designed it to fulfil as the com- 

 plement of the Oeeanographic Museum that 

 he had founded at Monaco last year. The 

 minister of piiblic instruction, on behalf of 

 the government, the president of the Academy 

 of Sciences, on behalf of the French Institute, 

 and the vice-rector of the university each re- 

 turned thanks to Prince Albert for his munifi- 

 cent foundation. The new institute is at once 

 French and international in character. This 

 latter aspect of the foundation is marked by 

 the presence on the committee of Sir John 

 Murray, Professor Buchanan, Professor von 

 Drygalski, Dr. Nansen and other foreign men 

 of science. In addition there is an adminis- 

 trative council composed of French men of 



science. The institute is designed to work in 

 intimate cooperation with the museum at 

 Monaco, where laboratory work will be con- 

 ducted, while in Paris lectures on the prin- 

 ciples of oceanography will be delivered. 



The following resolutions favoring a federal 

 grant to elementary and secondary education 

 were passed unanimously by the house of rep- 

 resentatives of the Illinois legislature on Jan- 

 uary 18 : 



Whebeas, The legislature of Illinois by the 

 joint resolution of February 8, 1853, was the first 

 among American legislatures to petition the con- 

 gress of the United States to maKe a grant ef 

 public land for each state in the union for the 

 liberal endowment of a system of industrial uni- 

 versities, one in each state, to promote the more 

 liberal and practical education of our industrial 

 classes and their teachers; and. 



Whereas, The congress not only made a liberal 

 grant of land in the year 1862 for this purpose 

 but has also followed up this policy once begun, 

 by still more liberal appropriations for the sup- 

 port of higher education in agriculture and the 

 mechanic arts, resulting in the great chain of 

 colleges for agriculture and the mechanic arts to 

 be found in every state and territory in the 

 union; and, 



Whebeas, The time has now come for the adop- 

 tion of a similar policy in the field of elementary 

 and secondary education, therefore, be it 



Resolved, by the house of representatives of the 

 state of Illinois, the senate concurring hereiii, 

 That the congress of the United States be respect- 

 fully petitioned to appropriate annually to each 

 state and territory in the union a sum equal to 

 one dollar per head of the population of said state 

 or territory as ascertained by the last census, for 

 the purpose of establishing, maintaining and ex- 

 tending in the elementary and secondary schools 

 of said states and territories, while not excluding 

 other elementary and secondary subjects, such 

 practical, industrial and vocational training, in- 

 cluding agriculture, the mechanic arts, domestic 

 science, manual training, commercial subjects and 

 such instruction in other similar subjects of a 

 practical nature as the interests of the community 

 may seem to demand; and 



Resolved further, That our senators in congress 

 be instructed and our representatives be requested 

 to use their best exertions to procure the passage 

 of a law of congress donating said sum to each 



