SCIENCE 



Friday, November 24, 1911 



CONTENTS 

 University Administration and University 

 Ideals: De. Stuart Paton 693 



Physiology as a Fundamental in Veterinary 

 Education: Professor Pierre A. Fish ... 70o 



Additional Facts about the Chestnut Blight: 

 I. C. Williams 704 



The Sarah Berliner Fellojvship .- C. L. F 705 



A Field School of Geology 706 



Wisconsin Geological and Natural History 

 Survey 706 



The Will of Mr. Joseph Pulitzer 707 



Scientific Notes and News 708 



University and Educational News 712 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Exiled Naturalists of Portugal: Pro- 

 fessor T. D. A. CocKERELL. "Domesti- 

 cated Animals and Plants": Professor E. 

 Davenport 714 



Quotations : — 

 Pensions and the Learned Professions .... 715 



Scientific Books: — 

 Leonhardi Euleri, Opera Omnia: Professor 

 G. A. Miller. Thompson's Applied Electro- 

 chemistry: Professor Samuel A. Tucker. 

 Lippincott's New Medical Dictionary: Dr. 

 Felix Neumann 717 



The Meeting of the Association of American 

 Universities 720 



Special Articles: — 



The Pole of Different Proteins in Nutrition 

 and Growth: Professor Thomas B. Os- 

 borne, Professor Lafayette B. Mendel . 722 



MSS, intended foi- publication and books, etc., intended for 

 review should be sent to the Editor of Science, Garrison-on- 

 Hudson, N. Y. 



UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION AND 

 UNIVERSITY IDEALS 



The development of our American uni- 

 versities is seriously handicapped by the 

 present system of administration. A spirit 

 of chauvinism intolerant of adverse criti- 

 cism from outsiders, even when directed 

 against obvious defects, is often a promi- 

 nent factor in determining as well as in 

 limiting the functions of the entire educa- 

 tional system now operative in colleges and 

 universities which remain private corpora- 

 tions. This particular defect is more ap- 

 parent in our older universities where the 

 bonds of union between alma mater and 

 alumni, which during the early period of 

 development were essential to the life of 

 our colleges, now threaten unless modified 

 and readjusted to impair the growth and 

 vitality of these institutions. Wherever 

 the spirit of progress is felt, the problem of 

 the proper readjustment of the administra- 

 tive forces of our universities so as to make 

 the most effective use of available resources 

 is, for the moment, a more important ques- 

 tion than providing for an increase of 

 revenue. It is not difficult to point out 

 more than one concrete example of the con- 

 fusion that exists in regard to the relation- 

 ships of the various departments of ad- 

 ministration and the unfortunate state of 

 anarchy sure to arise when a board of 

 trustees whose members are uninformed as 

 to the general progress made in the devel- 

 opment of universities suddenly reassumes 

 the powers which through their inertia had 

 temporarily been relegated to president 

 and deans. The results of this unfortu- 

 nate state of affairs have been that fruitless 

 efforts are made to solve problems re- 

 quiring the training and special knowledge 



