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only a question of time until the college 

 discovers its delinquency in having failed 

 to observe that, while it, more than almost 

 any other institution known, is charged 

 with the development of broad human 

 values, it is doing less to study these values 

 and the means of their development in a 

 broad, yet scientific, manner than are many 

 commercial institutions not supposed to be 

 at all concerned with human factors. 



Can we not here to-day among ourselves 

 "highly resolve" that President Harper 

 shall not have lived and shall not have 

 spoken in vain when he said regarding the 

 plan thus described to you, "This feature 

 of twentieth-century college education will 

 come to be regarded as of greatest impor- 

 tance, and fifty years hence ' ' — shall we not 

 make it fifteen? — "will prevail as widely 

 as it is now lacking. It is the next step 

 in the evolution of the principle of indi- 

 vidualism, and its application will, in due 

 time, introduce order and system into our 

 educational work where now only chaos is 

 to be found." 



Charles Whiting Williams 



Oberlin College 



TSE AMEBICAN MINE SAFETY 

 ASSOCIATION 



The annual meeting of the American Mine 

 Safety Association composed of leading coal 

 and metal mine operators, mining engineers, 

 mine-safety engineers, and mine surgeons will 

 be held in Pittsburgh, Pa., September 22-24. 



This association, which held its first meeting 

 a year ago, has for its purpose a reduction of 

 the nUmber of accidents in the mines and 

 quarries (3,602 in the year 1911) and the alle- 

 viation of the more than 60,000 men who are 

 injured each year. 



Following the recommendations of the 

 Bureau of Mines in the last three or four years 

 many mining companies have organized rescue 

 corps and first-aid teams, and as a result a 

 number of different methods of procedure 

 following mine explosions and fires and in the 



caring for the injured have developed. The 

 men who gathered a year ago to form this 

 association felt there was great need for 

 greater uniformity in the work of the rescue 

 and first-aid crews and at that time some very 

 important recommendations were made. 



This second meeting, which has been called 

 by Mr. H. M. Wilson, of the Bureau of Mines, 

 chairman of the executive committee of the 

 association, promises to take up and discuss a 

 number of the problems that have arisen in 

 both the rescue and first-aid work. The mem- 

 bers of the association declare that greater 

 progress can be made in saving life and in 

 reducing the seriousness of injuries by the 

 adoption of the proposed standard methods. 



The program will include a mine-rescue and 

 first-aid contest at Arsenal Park on September 

 22; in the evening a reception to the members 

 and motion-picture lecture on the mining 

 industry. On the second day the opening ses- 

 sion of the association will be held in the 

 morning and a report of the executive com- 

 mittee will be made on the proposed constitution. 

 of the society. In the afternoon there will be 

 an explosion in the experimental mine of the 

 Bureau of Mines at Bruceton, Pa., to which 

 all the members will be invited to be present. 

 On September 24, the third day, there will be 

 a business session at the hotel and a selection 

 of officers. In the afternoon members will visit 

 the experiment station of the Bureau of Mines 

 at 40th and Butler Sts., Pittsburgh, Pa. 



TEE CBOCEEB LAND EXPEDITION 

 The Crocker Land Expedition (George 

 Borup Memorial) sailed from the Brooklyn 

 Navy Yard, New York, in the Newfoundland 

 steam sealer Diana, on July 2, with the major 

 portion of its equipment aboard. The ship 

 called at Boston for 13,000 pounds of pemmican 

 and other stores and sailed for Sydney, N. S., 

 on July 6. Sydney was reached in the morn- 

 ing of the 9th, and there 40,000 pounds of dog 

 biscuit, 13,000 feet of lumber, 40 pairs of snow 

 shoes and 335 tons of coal were taken aboard. 

 The Diana left Sydney on the 13th loaded to 

 the rails, but she had yet to call at Battle 

 Harbor, Labrador, to take up the 30-foot power 



