130 The American Naturalist. [February, 
That the use of the remedy has not yielded the results expected 
from it by Prof. Koch is very probable, and it is difficult to- 
avoid the reflection that a more conservative policy, such as 
that persistently advocated and followed by Dr. Dixon, would 
have been wiser, and moreover kinder to those whose hope of 
cure had been unduly raised. There is abundant work to be 
done yet in the laboratories before definite conclusions can be 
reached, and the inoculation into the human system is therefore 
to be deprecated as premature. That the main principle has 
been arrived at seems beyond doubt, but much yet remains before 
the discovery can become of permanent benefit to suffering 
humanity. 
—lIn these days of object teaching, science made easy, and 
German taught by the lightning method, it is not surprising to 
find that there are philanthropic men who will undertake to 
see a college graduate through commencement day—for a con- 
sideration, 
That this long felt want has been filled is due to the enterprise 
of two Ohio men. Their circular announces that “ the student of 
the present day finds that in doing justice to the physical man 5 
has little time for literary work.” -There are those of us ya 
had a lingering fancy that colleges were endowed and professors 
engaged to stimulate young men to mental labor. We are g% 
to be corrected, and shall, after this, adopt the more advanced 
views upon the subject. ; 
These philanthropists admit “there may be students 10 eve? 
college who enjoy literary work,” but their sympathies g0 me 
“those who are obliged by a tyrannical college faculty to west , 
both mortal time and parental money in gorging a brain with : 
material that is as essentially foreign to that particular intelle 
as is sawdust to the human system.” With a coms” — 
born, perhaps, of experience, they agree to furnish to p K a 
sessors of these overworked brains already digested food, ae 
that in the end they may put to shame the tyrannical | ae 
who are such fossils that they think a man goes to college # o 
_. The price of show brains is quite reasonable. Orations, €853? S 
faculty — 
