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(Wesleyan, '09), Ph.D. (Cornell, '14); E. L. 

 Frederick, A.B. ('11), Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins, 

 '14); J. T. Dobbins, A.B. ('11), A.M. ('12), 

 Ph.D. (North Carolina, '14). 



New appointments at the Eice Institute are 

 as follows: Claude "William Heaps, B.Sc. 

 (Northwestern), Ph.D. (Princeton), of Co- 

 lumbia, Mo.; formerly fellow of Princeton 

 University; instructor in physics at the Uni- 

 versity of Missouri, to be instructor in physics ; 

 Arthur Romaine Hitch, B.A. (Washington), 

 Ph.D. (Cornell), of Syracuse, N. Y.; formerly 

 assistant instructor in chemistry at Cornell 

 University, research chemist of the Solvay 

 Process Company, Syracuse, N. Y., to be in- 

 structor in chemistry ; Herbert Kay Humphrey, 

 B.Sc, in electrical engineering (Illinois), M.Sc. 

 (Union), of Schenectady, N. Y., consulting 

 engineer of the General Electric Company, 

 Schenectady, N. Y., to be instructor in elec- 

 trical engineering; Joseph Horace Pound, B.Sc. 

 in mechanical engineering (Missouri), of 

 Pittsburgh, Pa.; engineer and instructor in 

 the School of Apprentices of the Westinghouse 

 Machine Company, to be instructor in mechan- 

 ical engineering; Edwin Eustace Reinke, 

 M.A. (Lehigh), Ph.D. (Princeton), of Prince- 

 ton, N. J., formerly Proctor fellow of Prince- 

 ton University, to be instructor in biology; 

 Radoslav Andrea Tsanoff, B.A. (Oberlin), 

 Ph.D. (Cornell), of Worcester, Mass., formerly 

 Sage fellow of Cornell University; instructor 

 in philosophy at Clark University, to be assist- 

 ant professor of philosophy; William John Van 

 Sicklen, M.A. (Stanford), of Palo Alto, Calif., 

 instructor in chemistry at Stanford Univer- 

 sity, to be instructor in chemistry. 



DISCUSSION AND COSSESPONDENCE 

 THE ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY. PROFESSORS 



To THE Editor of Science: In the current 

 number of The Atlantic Monthly there ap- 

 pears, on one of the pages devoted to bio- 

 graphical sketches of the contributors, a state- 

 ment concerning the committee on the organi- 

 zation of a national Association of University 

 Professors, to which reference is made in Pro- 

 fessor H. C. Warren's valuable article on 



" Academic Freedom " in the same issue. The 

 statement seriously misrepresents the func- 

 tions of the committee and the purposes of 

 those interested in the organization of the 

 new society; and it is published without the 

 committee's authorization, and, as Professor 

 Warren permits me to say, without that of the 

 author of the article. The committee is in no 

 sense a body for the investigation of griev- 

 ances or for the examination of internal con- 

 ditions in American universities. Its only 

 duty is to prepare plans for the formation of 

 a representative professional organization of 

 university teachers. The committee has de- 

 fined its own understanding of the purposes of 

 the organization as follows: 



... to bring about more effective cooperation 

 among the members of the profession in the dis- 

 charge of their special responsibilities as custo- 

 dians of the interests of higher education and re- 

 search in America; to promote a more general and 

 methodical discussion of problems relating to edu- 

 cation in higher institutions of learning; to create 

 means for the authoritative expression of the pub- 

 lic opinion of the body of college and university 

 teachers; to make collective action possible, and in 

 general to maintain and advance the ideals and 

 standards of the profession. 



It may perhaps be well to take this occasion 

 to report to those interested that the com- 

 mittee expects to call a meeting for the formal 

 organization of the association during the last 

 week of December. The day and place can not 

 yet be announced. The committee, after much 

 discussion, determined last spring that mem- 

 bers of the profession should, at least at the 

 outset, be asked to adhere to the association 

 as individuals, and not as representatives of 

 their local faculties. The committee is there- 

 fore about to send out invitations to a large 

 number of university and college professors 

 who are known to the committee, or to those 

 who have been called upon for advice in the 

 matter, as well qualified representatives of the 

 several sciences. Doubtless, through the limi- 

 tations of the knowledge of the committee and 

 its advisers, many to whom invitations 

 should be sent will be overlooked. It is not 

 contemplated, however, that the eventual 



