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SCIENCE 



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• The registration for the fall term at the 

 University of California by September 3 had 

 reached a total of 5,551, as compared with 

 5,236 on a corresponding date in 1914. Grad- 

 uate students at that date numbered 143 as 

 compared with 632 on a corresponding date 

 the previous year. Including the summer ses- 

 sion of 1915, which enrolled more than 5,400, 

 and the students in the colleges of medicine, 

 dentistry, pharmacy and law, but excluding 

 students of the university farm school, the 

 university extension division, the Wilmerding 

 Trades School, and of the San Francisco In- 

 stitute of Art, the University of California's 

 registration for the present academic year is 

 expected to exceed 11,000. 



The department of sociology and anthropol- 

 ogy. University of Minnesota, has been reor- 

 ganized with Dr. Albert Ernest Jenks as chair- 

 man; Dr. Arthur J. Todd, professor of sociol- 

 ogy; Dr. Paul I. Neergaard, instructor in 

 sociology; Mr. Frank J. Bruno, lecturer on 

 poverty; Mr. Otto W. Davis, lecturer on hous- 

 ing; Mr. Charles C. Stillman, lecturer on pov- 

 erty. Dr. Jenks has been professor of anthro- 

 pology in the University of Minnesota for nine 

 years. All the other members of the depart- 

 ment are new men in the university. Dr. 

 Todd comes from a professorship of sociology 

 in the University of Pittsburgh ; Dr. Neergaard 

 was last year instructor in sociology at West- 

 ern Eeserve; Mr. Bruno is secretary of the 

 Minneapolis Associated Charities; Mr. Davis 

 is housing expert with the Minneapolis Civics 

 and Commerce Association; and Mr. Stillman 

 is secretary of the United Charities of St. 

 Paul. The president of the university, Dr. 

 Greorge E. Vincent, will contribute a course of 

 lectures on " Aspects of Social Psychology."' 

 Dr. Joseph Peterson, another new member of 

 the faculty, and professor of psychology, oifers 

 a semester course of lectures on social psychol- 

 ogy for the department of sociology and an- 

 thropology. Another new course of lectures 

 wiU be presented by experts in collaboration 

 from the several detention institutions of the 

 state. It is the plan of the department to em- 

 phasize practical courses to equip the students 

 for life in the extensive rural states which 



stretch westward with Minneapolis as their 



Dr. Chas. H. Otis, for the past two years in- 

 structor in botany in the College of Arts and 

 Sciences of Cornell University, has accepted a 

 position in the botanical department and ex- 

 periment station of the New Hampshire Col- 

 lege. 



Dr. Anschultz, docent in the Hamburg 

 Scientific Institute, and Dr. Demoll, professor 

 of zoology in the Karlsruhe Technical School, 

 have accepted calls to professorships in the 

 university at Constantinople, the former in 

 psychology and the latter in zoology. 



DISCUSSION AND COSBESPONDENCE 



CALIFORNIA AND STANFORD MISREPRESENTED 



In the Ninth Annual Report of the Car- 

 negie Foundation for the Advancement of 

 Teaching which has just come to my atten- 

 tion, " the two great universities of Cali- 

 fornia " are accused of having lent themselves 

 " to the perpetuation of the medical rivalry 

 which has so long existed in San Francisco." 

 Mr. Pritchett rightly adds, " The world has a 

 right to exjwet a better solution than this and 

 one more in accordance with the largeness of 

 true university relationship." The solution 

 referred to by Mr. Pritchett is the question of 

 fusion of the two imiversity medical schools. 



Were such a grievous charge against our 

 universities justified, every right thinking man 

 would agree with Mr. Pritchett that this is, 

 not merely seems, " a matter of regret from 

 every point of view." Since this charge has 

 been given such wide circulation and espe- 

 cially since the distinguished board of trustees 

 of the foundation, by virtue of their office, 

 would seem to stand sponsors for Mr. Pritch- 

 ett's sweeping indictment, I must record my 

 earnest protest against so unfounded a charge. 

 That any one animated solely by a desire to 

 know and to understand the relations and aims 

 of our universities could so wholly misunder- 

 stand and misrepresent them, is as regrettable 

 as it is surprising. It is perplexing, indeed, 

 to imagine where Mr. Pritchett found evidence 

 to prompt such a serious reflection upon the 

 good name of California and Stanford. 



