tered in May -, 1898, as private, Co. L, 5th Md. Infantry Vols. Later, corporal. In camp at Chickamauga Park, Ga., Tampa, Fla., and Huntsville, Ala. Ill at Ft. Monroe, Va. Mustered out Oct. 15.

1896.

Curry, Joseph James. (Asst. in Med. School, 1896-1897.) Appointed acting assistant surgeon, U. S. A., July 8, 1898. July 12, assigned to U. S. Gen. Hospital at Ft. Myer, Va., as ward surgeon. Aug. 10, appointed pathologist and bacteriologist to U. S. Gen. Hospital. Ill with malaria.

Freeman, George Franklin. Appointed acting assistant surgeon, U. S. N., with rank of ensign, June 13, 1898. June 25, attached to U. S. S. Peoria.

McGillicuddy, Cornelius Joseph. Goulding, Timothy Francis. Examining surgeon for 6th Mass. Infantry Vols., and later for regulars. Appointed assistant surgeon, U. S. A., with rank of 1st lieutenant, and assigned to 1st U. S. Cavalry.

1897.

tered in May 4, 1898, as 1st lieutenant and assistant surgeon, 8th Mass. Infantry Vols. In camp at Chickamauga Park, Ga., Lexington, Ky., and Americus, Ga.

O'Neil, Richard Frothingham. Appointed acting passed assistant surgeon, U. S. N., with rank of lieutenant (junior grade), May 21, 1898. May 12, 1898, attached to U. S. S. Catskill.

1898.

Donlan, Charles Edwin. Mustered in 1898, as1st U. S. Engineers Vols. Served in Porto Rico. Yost, John Dixon. Mustered in -, 1898, as assistant surgeon, 1st Cal. Infantry Vols., with rank of 1st lieutenant.

1900.

Sanborn, Fletcher Greene. Enlisted in Hospital Corps, U. S. A. Served at Tampa, Fla. Assistant on hospital trains. Assistant in general hospital at Ft. McPherson, Ga. Ill with typhoid fever.

PEABODY MUSEUM.

Chamberlain, Weston Percival. Johnson, David Joseph. Aug. 10, Dakin, Albertus Lovejoy. (Private 1898, appointed acting assistant sur student.) Mustered in May 12, 1898, geon, U. S. A., with rank of 1st lieuas private, Co. I, 6th Mass. Infantry tenant. Stationed at Ft. Warren, Vols. Served in Cuba and Porto Mass. Rico. Ill, and brought home on Bay Logan, Francis Parker Tays. Mus- State, arriving at Boston Oct. 28.

THE

HARVARD GRADUATES' MAGAZINE.

VOL. VII.- MARCH, 1899. — No. 27.

PROBLEMS OF THE HIGHER EDUCATION.1

IN 1897-98 more than 2300 graduate students were in attendance at ten leading universities in the United States. They gathered there for the advanced pursuit of some special subject of human knowledge in the schools of liberal arts and sciences. What was their ultimate aim? Statistics show that, with the exception of an inconsiderable part, they were fitting themselves to teach their chosen branches. In the years 1873-1898 inclusive, Harvard University conferred the degree of Doctor of Philosophy or of Doctor of Science on 212 men. The noble word "teacher" is added to the names of 168 of these in the catalogue recently issued by the University. Four fifths of the men who have received these degrees at this University during the past 26 years have adopted the profession of teaching, and the like fact holds true in other universities. This, then, is to be the profession of most graduate students. But these men and women, wherever they may be pursuing their studies in the United States, cherish a high and noble hope, — that, in their appointed places, they may by their researches push forward the frontiers of knowledge. All round about us, even as the great unknown stream of Ocean encompassed the men of Homer's day, lies the region of the unexplored. To penetrate this region, and to add a little to the sum of human knowledge, — this is the lofty ideal that the true scholar sets himself.

1 Extract from an address on "Graduate Instruction in the United States," delivered before the Federation of Graduate Clubs, in Cambridge, on Dec. 28, 1898. This address will be published in full in the next number of the Handbook for Graduate Students.