of a Music Lover_, _Music and the
Higher Education_

XXIV THE TEACHING OF ART 475
By HOLMES SMITH, A.M. Professor of Drawing and the History
of Art, Washington University. Author of various articles
in magazines on art topics

PART SIX--VOCATIONAL SUBJECTS

XXV THE TEACHING OF ENGINEERING SUBJECTS 501
By IRA O. BAKER, C.E., D. Eng'g. Professor of Civil
Engineering, University of Illinois. Author of _Treatise on
Masonry Construction_, _Treatise on Roads and Pavements_

XXVI THE TEACHING OF MECHANICAL DRAWING 525
By JAMES D. PHILLIPS, B.S. Assistant Dean and Professor of
Drawing, College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin,
Author of _Elements of Descriptive Geometry_ (with A. V.
Millar), _Mechanical Drawing for Secondary Schools_ (with
F. O. Crawshaw), _Mechanical Drawing for Colleges and
Universities_ (with H. D. Orth) and HERBERT D. ORTH, B.S.
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Drawing and Descriptive
Geometry, University of Wisconsin. Author of _Mechanical
Drawing for Colleges and Universities_ (with J. D. Phillips)

XXVII THE TEACHING OF JOURNALISM 533
By TALCOTT WILLIAMS, A.M. LL.D., Litt.D. Director, School of
Journalism, Columbia University

XXVIII BUSINESS EDUCATION 555
By FREDERICK B. ROBINSON, Ph.D. Professor of Economics and
Dean of the School of Business and Civic Administration,
College of the City of New York

INDEX 577

INTRODUCTION

It is characteristic of the American people to have profound faith in
the power of education. Since Colonial days the American college has
played a large part in American life and has trained an overwhelming
proportion of the leaders of American opinion. There was a time when
the American college was a relatively simple institution of a uniform
type, but that time has passed. The term "college" is now used in a
variety of significations, a number of which are very new and very
modern indeed. Some of these uses of the term are quite indefensible,
as when one speaks of a college of engineering, or of law, or of
medicine, or of journalism, or of architecture. Such use of the word
merely confuses and makes