HISTORY AND SCIENCE

The announcement of an addition to the ranks of fields of concentration,--"History and Science", has been greeted with unusual interest on all sides. Intended as an opportunity for general cultural knowledge in these two lines, the new field will combine two branches of education hitherto largely supposed to be widely dissimilar and imbued with entirely divergent aims. Never before has History been linked to Science as a basis for a more broad and general education and the newcomer will be watched with the interest due an intelligent and highly potential innovation.

The outcome of this experiment will depend entirely on popular support and it will be in the students' hands whether History and Science develops as a field and eventually assumes the stature of History and Literature or Whether it crumbles away into mere nothingness. At first limited to six concentrators, the future status of the new addition will be based on the number and type of men who present themselves as candidates before next September. If sufficient interest and enthusiasm is evinced, the quota and facilities will be enlarged to provide for those men who feel interested in a cultural yet intensive study of the branches of History and Literature.

It is felt that by combining the possibilities of such diverse fields a more general knowledge may be obtained in preference to the intensive specialization which often proves to a large degree useless after graduation. Intensive work on some one period or field is both necessary and valuable if some use is to be made of that knowledge out of college. As son often happens, the knowledge gathered this way in the university is not needed and is forgotten. To ameliorate this situation, it has been decided to offer more opportunities for an eclectic method of education; a method where-by the best qualities of two highly dissimilar fields might be combined for the benefit of the individual student. The field of History and Science will undoubtedly prove an immense step forward in this scheme and its value will be incalculable if the many opportunities provided by it are recognized and used by the students. It is to be hoped that these opportunities will be accepted in the spirit in which they are offered, and that by its interest the student body will support the launching of the educational man-'o-war, History and Science.