THREE AND A HALF YEARS AGO OUR most reverend university celebrated with pomp and circumstance its Tercentenary. The general theme of all the eminent scholars who addressed the gatherings was the progress of culture and enlightenment during the last three hundred years. Surprisingly enough, however, no mention was made on any occasion of the emergence of half the human race, its women, from ignorance and from economic and legal subordination. The critical observer might infer that, in the judgment of Harvard University, women are irrelevant when the development of culture is under consideration.

THERE can be no doubt that eugenics in America has been under a cloud for the last two or three decades,—a cloud variously composed of skepticism, indifference, hostility and popular ignorance. Among educated folk there has existed a high degree of skepticism concerning the fundamental positions of eugenists as well as their practical measures of reform. This skepticism has its source in doubts of the scientific basis of many of the statements and claims of eugenics.

A reply to Professor Kandel’s article in the February number of the Teachers College Record which constitutes an attack upon progressive education and all its works.

WITH the resignation of Professor Mary Adelaide Nutting, there has withdrawn from active service in Teachers College a unique personality. Probably the quality that has always been most arresting to those associated with Miss Nutting is her rich natural endowment of constructive imagination, her gift of perceiving what is not and ought to be.

In these crucial times of world travail, when we hope and believe a new democracy is coming to the birth, never was there more urgent need of trained leadership—the leadership of educated women as of men.