SCIENCE 



Friday, June 23, 1911 



CONTENTS 



New Bequirements for Entrance and Gradua- 

 tion at the University of Chicago: Pbo- 

 PEssoE James E. Angell 945 



The Man of Science and his Duties: Pro- 

 fessor Francis E. Nipher 950 



British Vital Statistics 955 



Appropriations for the University of Illinois: 

 B. E. Powell 957 



Scientific Notes and News 958 



University and Educational News 960 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Appointment, Promotion and Bemoval 

 of Officers of Instruction : Professor A. D. 

 Mead. Correspondence with the Interna- 

 tional Commission on Zoological Nomen- 

 clature: Dr. Gh. Wakdell Stiles. The 

 Zoological Record: Professor T. D. A. 

 CocKEBELL. Primitive Copper Hardening : 

 De. W J McGee 961 



Scientific Books: — 



Mast on Light and the Behavior of Organ- 

 isms: Professor S. J. Holmes. Tarr and 

 von Engeln's Physical Geography: Peo- 

 FESSOE EicHARD E. DoDGE. The Principles 

 of Electro-deposition: J. L. B. M 964 



Scientific Journals and Articles 967 



Pre-Columbian Beferences to Maize in Per- 

 sian Literature : Mart G. Lacy 968 



Terrestrial Magnetism : F. A. Molbt 970 



Special Articles: — 



Bediscovery of some Conrad Forms: E. T. 

 Dumble. Bacteriological Methods for the 

 Estimation of Soil Activity: Dr. Jacob G. 

 LiFMAN. An Interesting Old Weaving 

 Technic: Mart Lois Kissell 970 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Selminthological Society of Washing- 

 ton: Maurice C. Hall 974 



MSS. intended for publication and books, etc,, Intendefi for 

 review should be seat to the Editor of ScikncSb GarriflOia=on- 

 Hudson, N. X, 



NEW BEQUIBEMENTS FOB ENTRANCE 



AND GRADUATION AT TEE 



UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 



The University of Chicago faculty has 

 just adopted a new plan for entrance to 

 the colleges and a new set of requirements 

 for graduation with the baccalaureate de- 

 gree, which represent the results of some 

 two years or more of careful study. The 

 original motives for the investigation were 

 several. On the one hand, it was felt that 

 the university was in some essential par- 

 ticulars losing touch with the secondary 

 schools from which its undergraduate 

 student body is recruited. This feeling 

 was not based upon loss of numbers, for 

 these have steadily increased, but in part 

 upon the expressions of the principals and 

 teachers in these schools, and in part upon 

 the considerable number of conditioned 

 students Avho were received year by year. 

 On the other hand, the faculty has been 

 called upon constantly to consider re- 

 quests from students to be relieved from 

 certain of the requirements for the bach- 

 elor's degrees. The character of these re- 

 quests made it clear that to some extent at 

 least the curricula of the university were 

 not meeting the reasonable needs of stu- 

 dents, nor contributing in the most effect- 

 ive way to their serious education. Too 

 little opportunity was afforded to meet the 

 demands of training for special careers 

 lying outside the usual forms of business 

 and the learned professions. Especially 

 was this maladaptation recognized in the 

 case of women students, for whom it 

 seemed at times desirable to devise special 

 courses of study designed to fit them for 

 particular lines of work. Other matters 



