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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXIII. No. I 



Professor Nathaniel F. Davis, Brown Univer- 

 sity, representing the New England College En- 

 trance Certificate Board. 



Dean Herman V. Ames, The University of 

 Pennsylvania, representing the Association of Col- 

 leges and Preparatory Schools of the Middle 

 States and Maryland. 



Principal Frederick L. Bliss, The University 

 School of Detroit, representing the North Central 

 Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. 



Chancellor James H. Kirkland, Vanderbilt Uni- 

 versity, representing the Association of Colleges 

 and Preparatory Schools of the Southern States. 



President Henry S. Pritchett, representing the 

 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of 

 Teaching. 



Dr. Kendric C. Babcock, as substitute for Dr. 

 Elmer E. Brown, the United States Commissioner 

 of Education. 



Dean Frederick C. Ferry, Williams College, rep- 

 resenting the New England Association of Col- 

 leges and Preparatory Schools. 



In its desire to help in the establishment of a 

 uniform and convenient terminology, the commit- 

 tee had requested a sub-eonunittee to prepare for 

 this meeting a report with regard to the use of 

 the terms "hour," "count," "unit," "period," 

 "exercise," "point," etc., in secondary schools 

 and colleges. Mr. Farrand, chairman of the sub- 

 committee, reported the results of the investiga- 

 tion which had been made and embodied these 

 results in the following resolution, which was 

 unanimously adopted: 



Resolved, that this committee recommends, as a 

 matter of convenience and to secure uniformity: 



1. That the term unit be used only as a measure 

 of work done in secondary schools, and that the 

 term period be used to denote a recitation (or 

 equivalent exercise) in a secondary school. 



2. That the term hour be restricted to use in 

 measuring college work, and that the term exer- 

 cise be used to denote a recitation, lecture or 

 laboratory period in a college. 



3. That unit be used as defined by this com- 

 mittee, the Carnegie Foundation, and the College 

 Entrance Examination Board, and that Tiour be 

 used preferably in the sense of year -hour. 



4. That the use of other terms such as count, 

 point, credit, etc., in any of these senses be dis- 

 continued. 



The sub-committee had been requested also to 

 consider and report on the desirability of agreeing 

 on the precise use of the terms "programs of 

 study," "curriculum" and "course of study." 

 Mr. Farrand reported that this question had been 

 carefully considered by his committee in the light 

 of the published resolutions of the National Asso- 



ciation of State Universities and of the Associa- 

 tion of American Universities and such further 

 information as could be procured. While con- 

 scious of the desirability of uniformity in the use 

 of these terms, the sub-committee felt that it was 

 imwise to take any action until some common 

 usage should have become established in many 

 institutions. 



Following a discussion of the question of a com- 

 bination of the examination and the certification 

 methods of admission to college. Dean Ferry pre- 

 sented the following resolution which was unan- 

 imously adopted: 



Sesolved, that this committee endorses the move- 

 ment of various colleges in the direction of attach- 

 ing weight to the school record of each candidate 

 in connection with his entrance examination, and 

 recommends to the colleges that such records be 

 regularly used as an aid in determining the candi- 

 date 's fitness for admission to college. 



The question of the proper use of the term 

 ' ' honorable dismissal ' ' was considered at some 

 length and the secretary was requested to obtain 

 further information on the subject and to report 

 at the next meeting. 



Various questions proposed for discussion were 

 laid on the table and the sub-committee, consist- 

 ing of Headmaster Farrand, chairman. Principal 

 Bliss, President Pritchett and Dean Ferry, was 

 continued with a request that it report again at 

 the next meeting. 



The officers of the past year were reelected as 

 follows : 



President — President George E. MacLean. 



Vice-president — Headmaster Wilson Farrand. 



Secretary-treasurer — Dean Frederick C. Ferry. 



The full report of the proceedings of the con- 

 ference will be printed for distribution to the 

 members of the associations which are represented 

 in the committee. 



Frederick C. Ferey, 

 Secretary-treasurer 



ANTHBOPOLOG¥ AT TEE FBOVIDENCE 

 MEETINa 

 The annual meeting of the American Anthro- 

 pological Association was held in Providence, 

 R. I., December 28-30, 1910, in affiliation with 

 the American Folk-Lore Society. The sessions 

 were held in Manning Hall, Brown University. 

 In the absence of President William H. Holmes, 

 Professor Koland B. Dixon presided. The attend- 

 ance was good and a number of important papers 



