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without which the candidate will not be ad- 

 mitted. For example, under this plan the boy 

 who can not write good idiomatic English 

 would not be admitted to college at all, but 

 would be sent back to the secondary school. 

 The entrance requirements recently adopted 

 at Harvard are quite in line with these 

 recommendations. The president of the 

 foundation urges a cooperation between the 

 secondary school and the college not as unre- 

 lated institutions, but as two parts of a com- 

 mon system of education. He argues that the 

 interest of the great mass of high school stu- 

 dents must not be sacrificed to the interest of 

 the minority who are looking toward college. 

 He insists on a larger measure of freedom for 

 the secondary school, but on the other hand, 

 he argues that the interest of the boy who 

 goes to college and the boy who goes from the 

 high school into business are alike conserved 

 by learning a few things well, not by learning 

 many things superficially. The boy who has 

 obtained such intellectual discipline is a fit 

 candidate for college, whether he has studied 

 one set of subjects or another; without this 

 intellectual discipline he is unfit alike for col- 

 lege or business. It is therefore, in the opinion 

 of the president of the foundation, the plain 

 duty of the college, at the present stage of 

 American educational development, to artic- 

 ulate squarely with the four-year high school 

 and to leave the secondary school the largest 

 freedom so that it may educate boys, not coach 

 them; but at the same time to require of the 

 candidates for admission tests which rest upon 

 high performance in the elementary studies 

 and which mean mastery of the fundamentals. 

 In such a program lies the hope of scholarly 

 betterment and of civic eiEciency for both col- 

 lege and high school. 



The report may be obtained by writing to 

 The Carnegie Foundation, 576 Fifth Avenue, 

 New York City. 



Health Service, to increase the pay of officers of 

 said service, and for other purposes. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- 

 resentatives of the United States of America in 

 Congress assembled, That the Public Health and 

 Marine-Hospital Service of the United States 

 shall hereafter be known and designated as the 

 Public Health Service^ and all laws pertaining 

 to the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service 

 of the United States shall hereafter apply to the 

 Public Health Service, and all regulations now in 

 force, made in accordance with law for the Public 

 Health and Marine-Hospital Service of the United 

 ytates shall apply to and remain in force as 

 regulations of and for the Public Health Service 

 until changed or rescinded. The Public Health 

 Service may study and investigate the diseases of 

 man and conditions influencing the propagation 

 and spread thereof, including sanitation and sew- 

 age and the pollution either directly or indirectly 

 of the navigable streams and lakes of the United 

 States, and it shall from time to time issue in- 

 formation in the form of bulletins and otherwise 

 for the use of the public. 



Sec. 2. That beginning with the first day of 

 July next after the passage of this act the sal- 

 aries of the commissioned medical officers of the 

 Public Health Service shall be at the following 

 rates per annum: surgeon-general, $6,000; as- 

 sistant surgeon-general, $4,000; senior surgeon, 

 of which there shall be ten in number, on active 

 duty, $3,500; surgeon, $3,000; passed assistant 

 surgeon, $2,400; assistant surgeon, $2,000; and 

 the said officers, excepting the surgeon-general, 

 shall receive an additional compensation of 10 per 

 cent, of the annual salary as above set forth for 

 each five years' service, but not to exceed in all 

 40 per cent.: Provided, That the total salary, 

 including the longevity increase, shall not exceed 

 the following rates: assistant surgeon-general, 

 $5,000; senior surgeon, $4,500; surgeon, $4,000: 

 Provided further, That there may be employed in 

 the Public Health Service such help as may be 

 provided for from time to time by Congress. 



TEE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE 

 The following bill has been introduced in 



the senate and in the house of representatives : 

 A Bill: To change the name of the Public 



Health and Marine-Hospital Service to the Public 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 At a meeting held on January 12 the Geo- 

 logical Society in Stockholm, Sweden, elected 

 to eight vacancies in their twenty correspond- 

 ing memberships, Frank D. Adams, Mont- 

 real; Charles Barrois, Lille; Eduard Briick- 

 ner, Vienna; Albrecht Heim, Ziirich; 0. E. 

 van Hise, Madison; James F. Kemp, New 



