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Editor's Note: We take this opportunity of acknowledging more properly the two cuts which illustrated Dr. Geiling's article, "General Introduction to a Discussion of the 3, 41-5 (1926). These cuts were published by permission Hormones," THISJOURNAL, of D. Appleton and Co. We should also have noted that they originally appeared in Barker's Endocrinology published by that company.
Colleges Might Scout for Brains, Says Professor. Colleges might very well use the system of scouting for football stars to hunt out exceptional students who would win honors for the school with their brains, Prof. J. E. Evans, of the Iowa State College, told the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Evans, who addressed a group of psychologists, deplored the fact that most educational institutions have concentrated on the mediocre students and have not developed the machinery which would enable them to care for the superior students who have marked individual differences. "Attempts should be made to determine the superior students as soon as they arrive a t college," said Dr. Evans. "In fact, i t would be better to have advance infarmation that such individuals are coming to the school." Intelligence tests are a better guide to the ability of new students a t a college than are their records in high-school work, he declared. Boys and girls who have won scholarships because of their fine records in high schools do not average very far above the mass of students in their college classes, statistics have shown. Division of students into sections according to ability was advocated, so that superior students might be given enriched courses and more individual teaching. It is possible to do twice as much work in the superior section as in a section of lower grade students. In his plea for more interest in superior students, Dr. Evans said that the colleges might even make financial concessions to such promising individuals. "The suggestion was once made as a jest that colleges divide all students into three groups, the average students being required t o pay the regular fees and tuition, the inferior group t o pay twice as much, and the superior group being left free from all expense for tuition," he said. "But this statement has more sense in i t than humor, for i t touches directly a t the money sense in American life which often gets immediate S h e results when appealed to directly."-Science
