r a THE TREND OF EDUCATION We need to study carefully the trend in inthe inthe inthe the educational world So far as this trend is in keeping with sound principles of education we should follow it So far faras as it is opposed to such principles we should oppose it As regards the subjects pursued the trend of education is in favor of ota a larger curriculum greater variety of studies This may mayor or may not be a good thing If it results in crowding the course of study it may do little else than encourage encourage encourage age cramming or in gorging the mind with an mass of facts and prin prin- Modern education is open to this charge On the other hand the increase in the number of elective studies is due in some measure to a growing conviction among educators that all studies properly taught have great educational value that I practical studies those of more immediate use in professional life may and should be beso beso beso so taught as to be means of discipline not inferior to those branches that touch our daily needs more remotely This t tendency nd ncy has raised in educational importance greatly great great- ly such studies as as history social science p political economy natural history biology arch archeology archaeology philology These receive attention now as never before and decidedly decidedly edly so Weare We are learning the great lesson that all forms of classified knowledge properly taught have great at educational value Hence Henc it is that corn worms bugs bug and all sorts of aquatic animals animal ar are regarded regard regard- ed as legitimate subjects of st study dy Another tendency in education to-day to is th the practice of original l r research search There re renever never was so strong an and g general an effort made to add to the sto stock k of human um know know- ledge The aim i in all ll colleges to-day to isto is isto isto to give students some practical drill in investigation gation This is good and w wholesome wholesome whole whole- ole ole- some under proper limitation These tendencies have had a bearing on the stat status s of women in colleges The old r opinion was that a ladies ladies' course of study should be almost wholly different from that of young men N Now ow all knowledge knowledg and all rightly conducted investigation n is regarded as having just as much disciplinary disciplinary disciplinary nary value for young women as men Re Recently a y young lady l-dy took the highest honors in mathematics in Cambridge Cambridge Cam Cam- a bridge England Well why not If she has a mind and taste for such studies why should not the b best st facilities b be offered h her r So many new fields are arenow arenow arenow now open to women that it is hard to s say y w what hat studies in t the e curriculum she m may y need most Hence it comes about that French drawing and painting hold no such important place in in ina a ladies' ladies curriculum curriculum curriculum lum as they held some years ago She is not preparing for the drawing roo room but u for an active useful life life life-in in the family if if the way be open if if not then in some other sphere phere perhaps quite as useful Another tendency in education is toward co concentration The complete equipment of a college now demands so much for library apparatus athletics and all manner Danner of illustrative materials that there must be bec c concentration of effort on a smaller number number number num num- ber of colleges This is a movement in the right tion J If f it is heeded great good will co come e of it If unheeded then there will be many wrecks in our college world to mark the folly of those who do not se see what is g going ing on about them Macalester Macales- Macales lester les- les ter Echo