Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-03-17
In the Colleges.

Some unique work i'll pSychology-in-
tended particularly for teachcrS-is be-
lns done at the University of PennSyl-
Nania. There is the Psychological Cli-
nie and a course in Clinical Psychology
where children are shown t. teachers
and their defects pointed out and the
proper remedies suggested. There is
course on Abnormal Psychology deal
ing with hvpnotism. hysteria. mental
aud moral dcgeneracy, and insanity.
Other courses deal with mental and
physical defects of school children,
child hygiene. and the many problems
OF school medical inspection. New
courses are offered on the social as
poets of school work and an opportu-
nifty is gwen students for practical
work in the study Of children in their
hores as we'll as in the methods of
laboratory investigation.
Dr James L. Tyron. assistant score
tary OF the American Peace society.
has returned from tour Of Canadian
universities with firm conviction
that the history Of the Dominion ought
to he taught in American schools. \
study OF Canadas annals and tradi-
tions, lie declares is bound TO disclose
tnat annexation to the United States
is ont Of the question.
Almost two thirds nf Tuskogcc's l50S
graduates and three fnurths of its l2.-
100 former students are directly or
indirectly engaged in some form OF in
dtlstriaI work.
The atmosphere ut the State Gniver-
sitY of Iowa has apparently cleared.
Nothing more has heen heard from the
alCmni in regard Ia their opposition to
John G. Bowman as president, and tho
secretary of the Carnegie Foundation
has accepted the post offered him by
the board of education. The successor
to Or. Maclean is only SO years old and
will probab bly, N the youngest college
president in the country.
The report that Mayor Logan OF
Worcester would be the next president
of the Polytechnic Institute is, ii
seems. n bit premature. The trustees.
it is officially announced. have made
no choice as yet. and have referred the
whole matter of the presidency Ia a
special committee OF three.
In an attempt TO force the authori-
ties to reinstate five suspended stu
dents. the three hundred nndergradu-
ates of Ripon College. in Wisconsin,
| have gone on strike. Glasses are prac-
tically deserted.
The fires of academic unrest. after
smoulderinG for a long time at Column
bia, have again burst into flame and
good many persons will agree that it is
! about time the university settled once
and for all its internal dissensions and
| went back TO its business of teaching
| the young idea to shoot" Naturally
enough the name of DIR. Nicholas MUIR
ray Butler is involved in this latest
controversy. The president is charged
by DR. Spingarn with cowing profess
ors into silence, with restricting indie
pendence Of action and with choking
off freedom of speech. DR.. Spingarn,
member of the faculty for twelve
years. has been deposed and declares
he has enough disregard for his own
future and concern for the welfare of
the university to air thoroughly the
conditions which surround the every
day professional life of the Columbia
teacher. He admits that there is no
appeal from the decision which de-
clares his chair vacant but he pro-
poses to take his case to the court of
public opinion. He tells of an 'abso-
lutely unmanly timidity into which
professors have been cowed by DR..
Butler; he describes how sitting the
general atmosphere of the university
is and how everyone looks askance up
on the man who is not afraid to criti-
ciZe the administration. DR.. Spingarn
is certainly clear and emphatic; his
statements leave no room for doubt or
ambiguity. President Buffers side of
the case has not been heard. Perhaps
his too, win be an interesting contri-