New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-06-03

CHANGES ~ TIE SCHOOL or sCIFNCT--CoNTRIPU-
TONS OF TIE FACULTY 10 CURRENT LIGEKA-
TUKE
lFRoM Al OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF TIIH TRInrNKl
PKINCFTnN, y. j., May 31.-Thc Faculty of
the school - have recently been taking steps
toward raising the standard 81 admission To that usttn
ton The results have yet been announced but Will
probably affect the coming Juue examinations The
requirements for entrance have heretofore been some
what less than those OF ike Institutions elsewhere The
idea was to compensate for TINS by requiring more
work during the course In the school, but
| the effect has been rather unsatisfactory Many
| s;udents we're attracted by the easy entrance
examinations who had no idea Of the difficulty Of the
course and who either dropped or left voluntarily
before they had half completed their course Others who
we're really desirOns OF r't class scientific education.
and would. under other circumstances. have come
to Princeton else concluding that the COURSE
was poor one the fact that entrance was 40 easy
The pamphlet which the trustees. at their February
meeting ordered to be- published. entitled. RI plies Of
the Professors and Tutors Ia the Questions addressed 10
them by the BOARD OF Trustees" has appeared Some 81
the questions and mly be- Of general interest
Question TX Is: Rave yOn during the last year pun
shed any book pamphlet monograph or article In re-
view the special branch which you teach. or sny
other branchi n give the title titles" The var
GUS answers this question reveal the fact that mem
bers Faculty have contributed largely t. the solid
literature the day. Dr. McCOsh answers this ques-
| ton IA follows:
Ihavc published al article Agno-ticsm devel-
oprd In liuNlcys Hume In The POjT Ncieaco Npnuy
August $50 article on "JOscph Cook III The C1G
oic lresbyferan, september. 1873 M article on Her
| oiec, November, 1879; n book on the " Emo
tuus IN January, 1850 article on " The Develop
ncut and Grow u Of Consccncc IN he iT'ao,tm Re
oie,c. July. 1850; paper on IIarmnni<inr ihr Action
of the Primary the Secondary, AMI tie tnilr1aie Sy-
TENS of Education" read before the National As>Ocia
or of Teachers In July 1850. aud published In the nrw
JyIrnai Of Education article on Presby terrain
College In America, In ne FGihoir Frssbyfetin Al
gnst 1850; a paper " How We Are iO Deal with
Snnn Mrn Trained In Natural Science In this Axe Of
I, lusnttIed OPINION" read before the Fr"-bvtt rtin
Council IN PIephla srPlemerir lsTo ana an az.
Gle on THE CritriiA ~ various MINUS oI lIuth III me
Iri,oetOh Recter. Novcmhrr' l77o
DR. Atwater has also been busy writer lie answers
thus:
published during the past year in The Princeton Re
re,s an article largely ethical, entitled lhe lloii
Noyum Organum OF Christianity anoIher entitled
pnIitical Economy Scencf1f wb8tf al article IN
The CaihOiir Presbyterian entitled " Professor C1der
woods Contributions 10 fhnS"phy esls.u elillnh
of my Manual OF Logic - some -niai'1 contributions
10 weekly palers on Broad hurchisln 'Noi-'rnce
and Evolution Herbert spencer PIlnciWh OF E'hcS
Some Of the most brilliant contributions have been
those Of DR. Hastead tutor in mathematics In the col
ege who, during the three years In which he haS taught
here aud during time that he was In college As
student, has recognition from the highest anthon
ties in his department country and Europe lie
writes his contributions during the have been
M follows Basis Dual Logic, Thesis for the de
gree Of Doctor Of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins Jul
versity On the First English Euclid ADerco't Jour
nal Of Mathematics. 1888 Algebras, Spaces, bog>,
In Tia Fopuiar Science Monthly for August. 1880 Dur
ing much OF the past year have been working hard on
| Mathematical Treatise. TIis Ia treatment entirely
distinct from anything exstng In the English language
OF the whole subject Of Metrea GEOMETRY, and viii.
think, especially mark epoch In stereOlnetry. have
Euclid from Modern standpoints and Treatise Dual
Logic.