I PROCEEDINGS. 



Dean Collet planned was admirable for the day when America 

 and printing had only just been discovered, but is possibly 

 not so well adapted to the countrj^ which lights its cities b}'- 

 electric energy, speaks to America without wires, flies in 

 high heaven like the eagle and descends to the abyss like 

 a sea monster. 



The Science Office will see to it that science receives 

 official recognition in all entrance examinations whatsoever, 

 and that it is not handicapped by receiving fewer marks 

 than the classics or any other subject. Science must have 

 her place in the curriculum not on suffrance or by-your-leave, 

 but by right, and in virtue of its inherent dignity and use- 

 fulness. Science cannot any longer be the under-fed maid- 

 of-all-work; Science is the Queen herself coming into her 

 kingdom. Science is no longer to be merely permitted, 

 tolerated, apologized for; she must preside at the Council 

 Board because she already rules the lives of the people. 



But it is not only the dead languages which take the 

 place of the teaching of science in the schools. History, 

 as often taught, is far too much the record of wars and of 

 the immoralities of Royal Families. The struggle for free- 

 dom of thought is quite as important as that for political 

 liberty. The History of the emancipation of a community 

 from intellectual darkness is their real history. What do 

 most people know of the history of Poland? — about what 

 could be put on a visiting card; and yet they ought to know 

 that Copernicus was a Pole, and a Doctor of Medicine, and 

 that the title of his great book is "Revolutionibus erbium 

 celestium", and the date 1543. The date 1543 is quite as 

 important as 1314 or even 1066. In many cases the battles 

 of history were not battles for liberty, but the outcome of 

 childish quarrels between persons suffering from an inflated 

 idea of their own importance. 



The academic precedence of the Faculties, in which 

 Theology, Arts, and Law come before Medicine and Science, 



