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will be, and the four years of college life is beginning to assume its proper place in public estimation. To pro duce, not phenomenal scholars nor wellequipped teachers, but fine, strong, human women-that is the function of those precious four years.

more, as the true function of college life becomes recognized, as popular expectation ceases to demand in justification of a B.A. anything but just woman,' the type which couples intellectual attainment with underdeveloped body will disappear. For some years Again I turn to my own class-and the importance of proper attention to as I run down the familiar roll from the physical well-being of school chilB to W and glance back over the nine dren of both sexes has been impressing years that have made those names part itself upon the public, and no one will of my life, I see that somewhere, some- apply scientific principles to the nurhow, among the jumble of prescribed' ture of her children more intelligently and elective' courses, we learned and with less danger of capricious therewith the better things, to see 'fads' than the college bred mother. largely, to judge temperately, to choose We do want more' of alumnæ's chiltrue values. They look but chilly dren, and we are going to get theminfinitives, written so, but the class an efficient and cumulative force toward knows how they have wrought into the those wide and beneficent ends which very fiber of our lives and made us the all true culture stands for. women that we are. And more and

ANOTHER ALUMNA.

THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE.

THE SANITARIAN AND THE POP-
ULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY.

THE Sanitarian, established in 1873, and THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY, established in 1872, are the two oldest journals in English devoted to the diffusion and popularization of science. When the Sanitarian was founded there was no journal occupied with sanitary science and public health, and the attention paid to these subjects was comparatively small. The Sanitarian has witnessed and promoted one of the most important movements of the nineteenth century. There is more accomplished now for the prevention of disease than for the cure of disease. The germ theory' and other discoveries of modern science have led to the forging of weapons more powerful than those used in any other warfare. The mortality of infancy and childhood has been reduced to one half. Infection and contagion are subject to control. The plague, malaria, yellow fever, even consumption, have lost their mysterious terror. We know their causes and can set bounds to their ravages.

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ences, it has always aimed to pay special attention to the important field of preventive medicine, and should do so more effectively in the future with the support of the editor, contributors and readers of the Sanitarian.

Dr. Bell has assured his reputation not only by the fifty-two volumes of the Sanitarian, but also by many other services tending to promote the health of the people. He was born in Virginia on August 3, 1820, and studied at the Harvard Medical School and the Jefferson Medical College. He became surgeon in the navy in 1847, and by services in the Gulf of Mexico, the West Indies and the coast of Africa he became familiar with yellow fever and other diseases. In 1847 he first used steam as a disinfectant, and he early urged the view that yellow fever is not directly contagious, thus greatly simplifying and improving quarantine regulations. As physician, as quarantine officer, as author and as editor, Dr. Bell has earned the gratitude and esteem of all who are interested in the health and welfare of the community.

The Sanitarian was established by THE JUBILEE OF THE UNIVERDr. A. N. Bell, and has been conducted

SITY OF WISCONSIN.

by him for thirty-one years. Dr. Bell THE University of Wisconsin celeis now in his eighty-fourth year, and brated during the second week in June though vigorous in mind and body, he its fiftieth anniversary and at the same has earned the right to rest from the time President Van Hise was formally labor of conducting a monthly journal. installed. Michigan, California and As there are now in the country num- Wisconsin form a group of universities erous medical and other journals which which almost rank with Harvard, Yale give adequate attention to sanitary ser- and Columbia. The great state univice and preventive medicine, it has versities are indeed the more distincseemed to Dr. Bell that the cause which tively American, and it is quite poshe has served can be best advanced by sible that the future belongs to them. merging the Sanitarian with THE POP- Millionaires may become less liberal in ULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. While the their gifts, whereas the people of a MONTHLY is concerned with all the sci- | state are likely to take increasing

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state annually more than their university costs them. As soon as it is generally understood that a university is an asset, not a charge, our state universities may become the greatest existing centers for education and research.

pride in their university. As the of Wisconsin, saves the people of the alumni become prominent in public life the relations between the state and the university will be even more intimate. So long as a state university deserves support by the direct appeal it makes to the people there is no limit to its development. The milk-test invented by Professor Babcock, of the University

The University of Wisconsin is as a

matter of fact more than fifty years terests and character are far removed old. In 1838 an act was passed by the from politics or commercialism, an territorial legislature establishing the ideal scholar. University of the Territory of Wisconsin. Practically nothing was done until the state was organized in 1848, when the university was established by the constitution. In 1866 the univer

sity was reorganized by act of the legislature, which also provided for uniting with the university the College of Agriculture, endowed with the proceeds of the agricultural college grant given by the United States in 1862. In 1867 the first annual appropriation (about $7,000) was made by the state. This appropriation has been gradually increased to about $300,000. The state

has also provided a great group of fifteen or twenty buildings which are beautifully placed on the shore of Lake Mendota. The library building, used also by the State Historical Society and erected at a cost of over $600,000, is the finest academic building of the kind except that of Columbia. The students number over 3,000, about as many as Yale, Oxford or Leipzig.

THE CHICAGO SCHOOL OF

EDUCATION.

THE Emmons Blaine Hall of the

School of Education of the University of Chicago was dedicated on May 14. This was an event of importance in the of scientific methods, for it is a step history of education and the extension toward making teaching a profession and education an applied science. The University of Chicago has now established a school of education ranking with the professional schools of law and medicine, the first school of this kind being the Teachers College of Columbia University. There are other schools of education and nearly all the larger universities have established departments of education, but Columbia and Chicago are the universities that are leading the way. The two schools had both cases independent movements for beginnings somewhat analogous. manual training and the less formal

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Over this great university one of its education of children have been subseown graduates and professors will quently taken over by the universities henceforth preside. Dr. Charles Richard Van Hise was born in Wisconsin in teachers with model schools for chiland made into professional schools for 1857 and has been connected with the dren attached. Dr. Nicholas Murray university since he entered as a stu- Butler, now president of Columbia Unident nearly thirty years ago. He is versity, was the first president and one of the most eminent American practically the founder of Teachers Colgeologists, in charge of the pre-Cam-lege, now the Department of Education brian and metamorphic geology for the U. S. Geological Survey and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Some years since when Columbia and Pennsylvania elected business men to the presidency, it looked as though scholarship might be subordinated to wealth and commercial success in this office. But Stanford chose a zoologist, Chicago a Semitic scholar, Yale an economist, Princeton a historian, California a student of Greek, Johns Hopkins a chemist and Columbia a student of education. Now Wisconsin has selected a man of science, one whose in

of Columbia University, and it is especially appropriate that he should have given the oration at the dedication of the Emmons Blaine Hall. Other addresses were made by President Harper, of the University of Chicago; Dr. Jackman, dean of the College of Education; Mr. Bentley, of the Chicago Institute trustees; President Downing, of the New York City Normal College, representing the normal schools of the country; Mrs. Blaine, the donor of the hall, and Professor Dewey, director of the School of Education and head of Department of Philosophy and

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