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Correspondence COMMERCIAL MATERIAL FOR SCIENCE CLASSES*
We learn that in your columns you carry a list of organizations that furnish to schools an exhibit of their material, and that the Dnriron Company is among those who do this. We receive numerous requests from schools for such exhibits, and in as much as our product does not lend itself to the furnishing of a school exhibit-at least without furnishig one that would be a matter of serious expense to us-we will ask that you withdraw our name from this list. While we have in the past acknowledged these requests, and have sent literature on Duriron, we feel that this has not been what has been wanted or expected, and we believe that you will be glad to correct your records in this matter by omitting our name in future issues of your journal. Very truly, THEDURZRON COMPANY, INC., H. R. DANIELS DAYTON, OHIO
* See abstracts from Science Classrooln (Sept.. 1928). Tins JOURNAL, 5, 1350 (Oct., 1928); 6, 158 (Jan.,
1929).
EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN METHODS IN EDUCATION Dr. Muhleman's comments on my discussion in the November issue of
THISJOURNAL of his article on "European and American Methods of Education" call for further remark. In order to take as a unit the period after high school, I purposely did not make the usual distinction between college and graduate school. Only thus is it possible to compare the systems. Besides, it is natural to consider students of the same age in both continents. The statement that "no American college1 or university offers high-school courses in English, French, German, chemistry, physics, and mathematics" will depend upon one's concept of a high-school course. What I have seen taught in American colleges is equivalent to European high-school courses. Without any depreciation of the large amount of splendid work which is done in American graduate schools, it cannot be denied that only a rela-
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tively small number of the students who pass their first examination (B.Sc., B.A.) enter the higher training courses. That conditions in Europe should be intolerable and that "European universities are long on theory hut short on practice" may be considered as a personal opinion. Accordingly, the statements and especially the conclusions in my first letter are unchanged. The purpose of my remarks was only to oppose views which, in the light of my experience, differ too much from reality. This correspondence may show the reader who is weighing the subject for himself how difficult it is to form a correct concept of the two systems of education. J. RINSE OVBRVEEN, HOLLAND
THE CORRELATION OF HIGH-SCHOOL CHEMISTRY WITH FIRST-YEAR COLLEGE CHEMISTRY-A CORRECTION In my article on the above subject (THISJOURNAL, 5, 1 6 2 7 3 3 (Dec., 1928)). Dr. Meldrum has pointed out a misprint in the quotation from his questionnaire regarding analytical work. I have consulted the blank returned by Dr. Meldrum and find that instead of "pantilatiwe analysis," as printed on page 1631, under Haverford College, of this article the reading should be "pualitatiw analysis." I regret t o have misread the abbreviated form in which this appeared in the blank. LOUIS W. MATTERN M C K ~ L EHmn Y Scnoo~, Washington, D. C.
