CONTENTS 
The Railways of the Old Northwest before the Civil War 
Frederic L. Paxson, 243 
A Study of Retarded Children in a Group of North- 
Western Schools . . Freeman A. Lurton, 275 
Offieium Pas to Hum: A Study of the Dramatic Develop¬ 
ment within the Liturgy of Christmas Karl Young, 299 
The Regulations of the University of Wittenberg, 1540 
. . . . . Ernest Voss, '397 
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