Social Problems and Education

by Ernnest R. Groves 'O3, Longmans, Green & Cos., New York. 1925.

Prof. Groves' book has been written primarily to satisfy a desire for a scientific understanding of those contemporaneous American social problems that hamper group life. The results of recent advances in biological and psychological science are utilized in so far as they shed light on problems such as crime, mental disease and defect, public health, social unrest, race friction and the like.

The purpose of the book throughout is to link up science and social welfare. The situation in our human relations at present reduces itself fundamentally "to the impossibility of a people socially unscientific living a satisfactory life in a scientific era." A popularization of the spirit of science, a difficult though not impossible task, is the author's suggested way out. "The promise of social progress is in science teaching men and women with t'he same success that it now feeds, houses and gives them play things." Following upon the success of material science in discovering ways of controlling physical forces for man's welfare, the task now devolves upon social science in turn "to engineer social welfare."

"Social Problems and Education" is a book that meets very adequately the challenge that the existence of social problems presents to education. Faulty education is held to be largely responsible for these problems in view of the fact that in the last analysis all social problems represent so many individuals who are examples of social maladjustment. Prof. Groves does not hesitate to say, therefore, that the task of education is to socialize human nature in order to preserve and if possible advance the interests of society. There is every reason to believe that his book, given the wide use in class room that it deserves, will very well serve this end of education and .science. And to the general reader it affords the possibility of a rational discipline in a field where the substitution of knowledge for prejudice and ignorance is greatly needed.

"Studies of the Vitamine Potency of Cod- Liver Oil Number 17. The Vitamine Potency of Salmon Body Oil" by Arthur B. Holmes, Ph. D. 'O6 and Madeline G. Pigott has been re- printed from the Boston Medical and SurgicalJournal for October IS, 1925.

Roland Gibson '24 is the author of the follow- ing article in The World Tomorrow: "Wage Slavery as Seen by a Hotel Employee" in the May 1925 issue; "Traffic in Arms Conference" and "Our Students: In College and Out" in the July, 1925 issue; "Three Experiments" and "Back of the Chinese Disturbances" in the August, 1925 issue; "The Coal Situation" in the September, 1925 issue; "Dissension in Trade Unions" in the October, 1925 issue.

The Boston Sunday Globe for December 20, 1925 contains an article "Going to College Eng- lish Style" by John Hurd Jr. '22.

"Infection with Vincent's and Similar Organ- isms" by Creighton Barker M. D. D. M. S. 'l3 has been reprinted from the Proceedings ofthe Connecticut State Medical Society for 1925.

"The Patellar Tendon Reflex and Affective Tone" by Professor H E. Burtt 'll and W. W. Tuttle has been reprinted from the October 1925 American Journal of Psychology. Other arti- cles by Professor Burtt are "The Measurement of Confusion between Similar Trade Names" in the January 1925 issue of the Illinois LawReview; and "The Curve of Forgetting for Ad- vertising Material" in collaboration with E. M. Dobell, in the March 1925 issue of The Journalof Applied Psychology.

"The League of Nations Court" a speech by the Hon. George H. Moses '9O in the Senate of the United States January 16, 1926, has been published as a pamphlet by the Government Printing Office.

The last in the series of the "Social Science" pamphlets to appear is "Problems of American Industry and Business (Waste and Conservation)". The authors are Harold Rugg 'OB, Earle Rugg and Emma Schweppe.

Professor Porter Gale Perrin 'l7 is the author of a monograph "The Life and Works of Thomas Green Fessenden 1771-1837." This monograph of 206 pages is published as Universityof Maine Studies second series, number four. It should be of special interest to Dartmouth men as Fessenden was a graduate of the college in the class of 1796. Fessenden was one of the earliest of the Dartmouth literary lights and is the author of several volumes of verse, among which are "Terrible Tractoration", "Original Poems", "Democracy Unveiled", "Pills Poetical, Political and Philosphical". He was the author of several volumes of prose and editor of The Nezv England, Fanner 1822-1837 and of the New England Farmer's Almanac 18281836. His first two volumes, strange to say, were published in London and met with considerable success in England. In his monograph Professor Perrin gives considerable time to the Dartmouth of Fessenden's day.

The Boston Evening Transcript for December 12, 192S contains a two page article on the "Veterans of the Suffolk Bar" by Hon. Samuel L. Powers '74.

The issue of Modem Language Notes for January 1926 contains an article by George B. Watts '13 "Was Dancourt a Plagiarist?" Mr. Watts is also the author of "The Life, Literary Quarrels, and Works of Francois Gacon", a thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, June 1925.

"Microcytosis in Hemolytic Icterus", by B. R. Whitcher 'O2 appeared in the November 1925 issue of the American Journal of MedicalSciences.

"Strategy and Debate" by Professor Warren T. Shaw 'lO appears in the November issue of the Quarterly Journal of Speech Education.The American Book Company has just published "Beginner's French" by Victor E. Francois, Ph. D. and Franklin Crose, A. M. 'O3. Mr. Grose is now instructor in Modern Languages in the Barringer High School, Newark, N, J.

The issue of the Survey of January 15th, 1926 contains an article "Health Diagnosis in College" by Dr. William R. P. Emerson '92. This article is based upon the experiences of Dr. Emerson in connection with physical fitness classes at Dartmouth and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.