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Maxwell has had too much intellectual pride to be willing to waste time in wrangling with his critics, or in quarrelling with his enemies. He has contented himself with going steadily forward on the path of progress that he had marked out, only pausing now and then to demolish opposition, either by a striking achievement or by an irrefutable argument, or by a phrase. What New York would have done without his guiding and directing mind in the formative years of the greater city's school system, one can hardly imagine. That his fame is secure, and that the foundations that he has laid can neither be shaken nor removed, is certain. American education is passing thru a curious phase of materialism, sentimentalism and crude philosophizing. It has lost a large part of the vigor and definiteness which characterized it until perhaps twenty years ago. Dr. Maxwell saw all this coming and struggled against it as best he could. The judicious historian of his career will likewise be a prophet of that return to sounder educational theory and better balanced educational practise that must sooner or later reassert itself.

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The Board of Trustees of the University of Kentucky, in December, 1916, adopted a resolution authorizing the Chairman of the Board to appoint a committee of the trustees to investigate the expediency of a proposed consolidation of the University Colleges of Mechanical and Civil Engineering. What is of much greater importance for its general bearing, the committee thus appointed, was instructed in the words of the resolution to investigate and report upon other conditions causing or tending to produce discontent among the alumni and student body and the general public toward the existing administration of the university. In January, 1917, the Governor of the state, who is ex-officio Chairman of the Board, appointed a committee of five members constituted in accordance with the resolutions. At the first meeting of the Committee, it was decided that in order to carry out the purpose of the Board to ascertain actual conditions in the university and to

make intelligent recommendations concerning them of substantial benefit to it, it would be necessary to secure the services of experienced college men to assist the committee in its work. A "survey commission" consisting of three members was consequently appointed and organized. The Bulletin of the University of Kentucky for July, 1917, contains the report of the survey commission to the investigating committee and the comprehensive report of that committee as adopted and presented to the Board of Trustees. The combined report is now printed as a Bulletin of the University of Kentucky under date of July, 1917.

The report of the survey commission is a thoro one, and, as the investigating committee phrases it, it speaks for itself. It considers in detail the government of the university, matters of administrative policy, internal organization, the maintenance of academic standards, the faculty, general questions of efficiency and administration, and the relations of the university and the state. The whole is a notably comprehensive, fairminded and fearless statement of conditions of organization and administration which in many respects it was high time to bring out into the sun for scrutiny. Some of the facts stated are frankly discreditable to the institution and to the state of whose educational system it is the head. The whole university in the light of this report of the survey commission, which is adopted and commended by the investigating committee of the trustees, needs a thoro overhauling, and the people of Kentucky, in the light of the report, should leave no stone unturned to see it speedily done.

The report of the investigating committee is an extraordinary public document. In many respects it is a conspicuous instance of ill-advised statement, blunt to the point of rudeness, and utterly wanting in what in other places is called academic courtesy. Its principal recommendations, so far as the personnel of the university is concerned, are in its own language: President Barker's retirement to take effect upon the first day of September, 1918; President-Emeritus Patterson's removal from the campus immediately, which ultimately was not ratified; the retirement of Dean Rowe

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immediately; and the appointment of a general committee consisting of four members of the Board of Trustees and three of the university faculty to nominate, so soon as possible, a new president of the institution. The original casus belli, the proposed consolidation of the two engineering colleges, is met by the recommendation to defer such action until one year after the incoming president shall take active charge of his office and then to appoint the dean of the consolidated colleges upon his nomination. The two deans themselves appear to have really been the center of the disturbance, with the result that in Scriptural fashion the one has been taken and the other left. The exonerated dean, in point of fact, would seem to have good grounds for bringing a suit for defamation of character against the Board for its callous and conscienceless presentation in a public document of material that should never in this flatfooted manner have found its way into print.

The report of the investigating committee as contained in this Bulletin of the University of Kentucky is unique in the history of American education. Let us hope that it will long continue to enjoy this distinction.

The paper on Outside professional engagements by members of professional faculties by the late Dr. Theodore C. Janeway of the Johns Hopkins University, which appeared in the EDUCATIONAL REVIEW for March was, by a misunderstanding, designated as a paper read before the Association of American Universities at its last annual meeting. As a matter of fact, Dr. Janeway's paper was read before the Association of American University Professors. The EDUCATIONAL REVIEW tenders an apology to this Association and its officers for not having been aware of this fact and, therefore, for not having asked their permission to print the paper.

Dr. Janeway's article was printed without the benefit of any revision or modifications of its statements that he might have wished to make had he lived.

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Twiss's A Textbook in the principles of science teaching, 440-Arith-
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on new books, 445.

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The intellectualist, 448-Émile Durkheim, 449.

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