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By the death of Professor Alexander Thomas Ormond on the seventeenth of last December American philosophy lost one of its distinguished representatives and teachers. Professor Ormond was born in Pennsylvania in 1847, and was graduated from Princeton University in 1877. He was for three years (1880-1883) professor of philosophy in the University of Minnesota. From 1883-1913 his philosophical activities were associated with the chair of philosophy which he occupied in Princeton. In the summer of 1913 he accepted the presidency of Grove City College. Among his writings may be mentioned Basal Concepts in Philosophy, 1894; Foundations of Knowledge, 1900; Concepts of Philosophy, 1906.

As a philosophical teacher, Professor Ormond was long a dominating influence in the intellectual life of Princeton. He believed that philosophy was not only a doctrine but a life; and throughout all his teaching one felt the vitality of the process by which he always sought to make his theories real expressions of living experience. Students who were in any sense serious-minded men and who had come to philosophy not merely "to talk about it but to know its power" found in him—in the frank and unclouded genuineness of his guileless personality and in his vital and profound grasp of the living issues of thought and life—an inspiring companion and guide. As James McCosh had influenced him, so he influenced them. He became "the beloved teacher and friend, who by example and precept brought his pupils to live in the presence of the great Reality."

He was "a square-set man and honest"—a man who had seen the divine vision and who, through the transparent simplicity and lovableness of his life, gave to all those associated with him in the search for truth an example which can never be forgotten.

Mr. Bertrand Russell has accepted a call to Harvard University. He will lecture next year on Logic and Ethics. The review of Aliotta's book, The Idealistic Reaction Against Science, which appeared in the January number of the Review, was written by Mr. Joshua C. Gregory, and not by Joshua C. Reynolds, as printed. We give below a list of articles in current philosophical magazines. , XXVII, 1: Josephine Nash Curtis, Duration and the Temporal Judgment; Frederick Lyman Wells, On the Psycho-Motor Mechanisms of Typewriting; Walter B. Swift, Some Developmental Psychology in Lower Animals and in Man and its Contribution to Certain Theories of Adult Mental Tests; Harold E. Bunt, Factors which Influence the Arousal of the Primary Visual Memory Image; Lucile Dooley, A Study in Correlation of Normal Complexes by Means of the Association Method.