SCIENCE 



Friday, May 26, 1911 



CONTENTS 

 The New Harvard Entrance Requirements: 

 Professok James Hardy Eopes 793 



The Bolyai Priee. II: — 



Report on the Works of Hilbert : M. PoiN- 

 CARE 801 



J. he Willard Gibhs Medal 808 



Scientific Notes and News 809 



University and Educational News 812 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Law that Inheres in Nomenclature: 

 Professor James G. Needham. On Evi- 

 dence of Soma Influence on Offspring from 

 Engrafted Ovarian Tissue: Pbofessoe C. 

 C. Guthrie 813 



Scientific Boohs: — 



Hobart on Electric Motors; Swenson and 

 Frankenfield on the Testing of Electromag- 

 netic Machinery: Professor Walter I. 

 Slighter. Bies's Economic Geology: Pro- 

 fessor J. F. Kemp 820 



Psychology in Russia: De. L. R. Geissleb . . 822 



The Time given by University Students to 

 Study and Recitation : Professor E. E. 

 Eamset 823 



Special Articles: — 



Biological Conclusions drawn from the 

 Study of the Titanotheres : Dr. Henry 

 Faikpield Osborn. Underground Tem- 

 peratures: Professor Thomas L. Watson. 

 The Scales of the Dipnoan Fishes: Pro- 

 fessor T. D. A. COCKEEELL 825 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Biological Section of the New York 

 Academy of Sciences: De. L. Hussakof .. 832 



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 review sbould be Best to the Editor o» ijuikkce, Garrisom-oa^ 

 timlson, N. y. 



tb:e new harvard entrance 

 requirements ' 



In this address (a free abstract of which, 

 written out later, is here given) it should 

 be clearly borne in mind that the speaker 

 is familiar only with eastern admission ar- 

 rangements, and that what he says is 

 wholly from the point of view of an eastern 

 institution, with its own problems, in some 

 respects diflEerent from those which meet 

 the schools and universities of the west. 

 Indeed, a knowledge of the real entrance 

 requirements in any institution, as distin- 

 guished from the catalogue rules, can be 

 gained only from an acquaintance with 

 actual practise, for in the nature of the 

 case the real requirements depend on the 

 mode of administering the rules. 



The earlier entrance requirements at 

 Harvard, as at all contemporary institu- 

 tions, were determined by the fact that the 

 subjects studied in school were generally 

 to be continued in college. It was accord- 

 ingly necessary to know whether a boy who 

 applied for admission had reached the 

 point in Latin, Greek and mathematics 

 where he would be able to go on with col- 

 lege work in those subjects. This was sub- 

 stantially the case until soon after the be- 

 ginning of the administration of President 

 Eliot in 1869. A process of radical modifi- 

 cation in the Harvard entrance require- 

 ments then began, and at successive periods 

 since, about ten years apart, there have 

 been important and far-reaching changes. 



^ Address at the annual meeting of the Michigan 

 Schoolmasters' Association, Ann Arbor, Mich., 

 March 31, 1911. 



