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pedagogy, embodying the results of the most recent and important studies and investi- gations ; the physical anthropology of infancy, childhood, youth, manhood, old age ; the anthropological phenomena of growth, arrested development, degeneration ; anthropological aspects of heredity and environment in the individual and in the race; uncivilized races and civilized races; the evolution problems of humanity; edu- cation among primitive peoples ; the anthropological history of America ; the inter- pretation of folk-lore ; the psychology of primitive peoples ; the trend of human progress.

The lectures in anthropology will have special bearing upon the courses in psychology and pedagogy in the university, and every effort will be made to utilize the latest results of anthropological investigations.

From time to time the most important current literature will be reviewed and students made acquainted with the best contributions to anthropological science in the various foreign languages. The importance of a thorough acquaintance with the bibliography of their subjects is impressed upon all students, and all possible assist- ance in this direction is always at their disposal.

EDUCATION.

B. Principles of education. This course treats certain fundamental educational principles and involves also a study of several important chapters in the history of education, with a brief account of a few representative educational systems. Such topics as the following will be included : Educational ideals. The dominant aim at different stages of development. The correlation of educational forces. The family and education. The church and education. State aid and control. The field of scientific study in education. Antithetic educational principles. The history of nature -versus convention in education. Rousseau, Pestalozzi as " pedagogical social- ist." Modern Social-Padagogik. Present problems and tendencies. One hour a week ; half a year.

Education. Dr. Hall will offer a course almost entirely new. Beginning with a brief review of systems of marriage from a biological standpoint, including age and mode of life so far as they bear on fecundity, the lectures will summarize the laws of embryonic development, birth customs, treatment of early infancy among different races, the first stages of development, growth, regimen, teething, nutrition, walking, the beginnings of speech and its implication, first efforts at drawing, singing, plays and games, social relations, methods of studying the first stages of childhood. The environment, treatment, and education of children during this period will involve a consideration of the kindergarten.

HOLY CROSS COLLEGE.

Special ethics treats, int. al., the following topics: Society in general; nature and end of domestic society; unity and indissolubility of matrimony; divorce; parental authority; education of the child ; civil society, its nature, end, origin ; false theories on the origin of civil society; Hobbes, Rousseau ; scholastic doctrine ; forms of civil government ; citizenship ; freedom of worship ; freedom of the press ; state education.

MICHIGAN- ALMA COLLEGE SCHOOL OF PEDAGOGY.

KINDERGARTEN TRAINING COURSE. Sociology. Sociology.

ish social life.