—Dr. J. W. Haas, of New York, was elected President of
Mnhlenburg College to succeed the late Theodore Seip.
—The full body of West Point cadets will go to St. Louis for
their ten-day encampment. They will establish camp and give
exhibition drills under command of Supt. Mills.
From the appearances of exchange columns in many of our
exchanges it seems that that department has the one and only func
tion of criticising articles in other magazines. Not one out of a
hundred who read the magazine knows anything concerning the
article or paper that is criticisedhe skips the exchange colunm,
as it is of interest only to the editor.. In this column it has been
our aim to, reproduce choice paragraphs and verses, gathered from
our exchanges, with now and then a well meant criticism. We
may not be correct in our interpretation of the use of the ex
change column, but we let that for our readers to decide.
There is a good article in this month’s number of the Muhlen
berg. It is entitled Education in the United States. Although
this subject is somewhat threadbare and worn out, the writer has
brought out some material which is original. We quote a para
graph :
Democratic education may be defined as a form
of individual self-government in schools. Underly
ing the American idea of education there is that
principle of human freedom and responsibility
from which sprang the republic itself. The old
time- school was an autocracy or an oligarchy; the
Ainerican school has become a democracy, no less
under law than the other, but under law which ap
plies to teacher as well as to pupil, and in the opera
tion of which there is a common interest. Its pro-
EXCHANGES.
T. F. FOLTZ.