Faculty Activities

The omission of a word in the December MAGAZINE led to a mis-statement of the purpose of Professor Burton's Latin grammar shortly to appear from the house of Silver, Burdette & Co. The phrase should have read "for college preparatory use." The need of an adequate Latin grammar for use in the secondary schools has long been felt. Professor Burton's wide experience as a teacher in both secondary school and college gives him unusual fitness for writing a text that shall duly emphasize to younger students those fundamental principles whose thorough understanding is essential to later and more advanced work in the college.

The report of the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1910, will contain reprint of two papers read before it in August last by Professor Hawes: one "A Report on Cretan Anthropometry"; the other, "Some Remarks on Dr. Duckworth's Paper, 'Observations on 104 School-children at Vori and Palaikastro in Crete.'" A revision of the first paper was read by Professor Hawes at the meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Providence, December 29.

Dr. A. S. Field has just published in the American Economic Association Quarterly a monograph of 229 pages on "The Child Labor Policy of New Jersey." In the November Yale Review he has a consideration of E. H. Downey's book on "The History of Labor Legislation in lowa."

Professor Lyman has been on the staff of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Wood's Hole, Mass., for the past four summers. His work is that of instructor in Botany.

Professor Gerould has been using the present semester's relief from teaching in working up the results of four summers' experimental work on heredity in butterflies. He presents his conclusions on the subject before the meeting of the American Society of Naturalists held at Cornell University. In the Boston Transcript for December 3, Professor Gerould published an account of the Eugenic Laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I.

Professor R. W. Husband attended the annual meeting of the American Philological Society in Providence, December 27, and read a paper on "One of the Latin Diphthongs."

Professor W. H. Sheldon, head of the Department of Philosophy, read a paper on, "The Ideals of Philosophic Thought," at the annual meeting of the American Philosophic Association in Princeton, December 27.