Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-28

freshmen entering the University OF
! Arkansas to detect.
DIR, George y. Cade, professor oil
education at the university. told his
| colleagues in the education section
/ that 66 3 per cent of "A first. year class
/ missed the mistake In a test OF their
knowledge of grammar.
Pronouns, in fact. proved "a Stun
bling block to more students than
| did any other part of speech. Verbs
! offered the least trouble.
White rats that hoped about like
kangaruos and perched on their FOOD
bowls like birds were described be :
fore the American Society of Zool'
c.ists today by Prof. Harold :.
Cotton of the University of Penn
sylrania
The animals were deprived ot their
fotelegs under other shortly after
birth in a series Of laboratory en-
periments designed to determine thelt
adaptable ity te such change IN tnel,
structure From the time they lelt
their mothers nest, Prof. Cotton re
i1ted. they showed themselves ready
to meet the new condition as bipedS,
one OF them being able To hop 10
INCHES from the bottom of bucket
10 perch on the rim. When COM
pared with their normal brothers
and sisters. il was found that tneA
had become knock knced through
the bending of the bones just below
ths knee Joints. that the muscles
which sprcad the toes had become
ENLARGED and that the ankle joint
had widened. giving them the Stahil-
nv they needed after the loss OF their
f"re'ecs.
Weuld RearSanize Curriculum.
4 REORGANIZATION of general eduaa.
ticn in the United States beyond the
first six grades. so that the omissions
and wastcrui duplica tons" of present
curricula might he avoided, was sus'
Sested today to the education section
Of the association by Prof William
C. RuediSer. dean of the school or
education at George Washington Cni
versity. Citing figures to snow mat
high schools and colleges were leaving
many gaps in the education received
by students. Prof. RuediSer recon-
mended the organization of two re-
lated cycles after the sixth grade.
The first cycle" he said. would
aim for breadth. 1t would introduce
courses in all the basic fields of human
culture and achievement. \ tenta.
tive curriculum shows that this cycle
could he covered in about six years.
DEPTHS would he the basic aim OF the
second or collegiate cycle. In this
cycle specialization would he the key.
note"
Prof Rueiiger presented data TO
show that whereas large percentages
of college students had never had
courses in physics. chemistry. zoology,
physiology or the history and appre-
citation of art. many subjects had been
''wastefullv repeated"
Rejects Repetition Law.
The cure of stammering and thumb
sucking among small children, and
possibly other bad habits. through
voluntary repetition of the act. was
suggested to psychologists of the asso-
citation yesterday by Prof. knight
Dunlap of the Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity.
Rejecting the generally accepted
law OF learning" that repetition of
an act in itself tends TO fix habit. he
offered a new theory that habit fiXa.
ton is due 10 other factors made
operative through repetition. From,
this. he deduced that the voluntary
repetition of habitual act may
equally well contribute, under proper
conditions. To its abolition.
He told OF curing himself Of the
habit OF transposing the letters Of the
article the when using a typewriter
by deliberately practicing the tipping
of the word as ''hte."