tto. In this scramble for power the "purpose" for which life
is lived has been lost sight of. No "worthy aim" has been impressed on
the mind of the child.

An awakening has come and the school is the leading factor in the
upward movement. Education is coming to have a new meaning, or better,
perhaps, is going back to the older meaning with new materials. No
knowledge or power the youth may acquire will avail in real struggle
for existence of the race without a definite aim to hold steady the
eye fixed on a certain goal. This is a law of man's existence.

The change in point of view has been growing like a root underground.
It seems to have suddenly sent up shoots in every direction. In no
line of thought has this change come more generally than in relation
to the things youth should be taught. Himself and his relation to his
environment are now to the front. Instead of extolling man as the lord
of all created things, the youth is made to see that man unaided by
scientific knowledge is at the mercy of Nature's forces; that man in
crowds is sure to succumb unless he makes a strong effort to keep
himself erect.

Hence the boys are given manual training--power over wood and stone,
steam and electricity; and are taught the principles of production of
food and metals. The girls are being taught to distinguish values in
textiles and food stuffs; to manage finances and to keep houses in a
sanitary manner.

It is the business of the higher education at once to apply the
knowledge of preventive measures to its own students and through them
to reach the people, but it has been very slow to take up the cause of
better environment.

In colleges there is still more emphasis laid on external works, such
as water supply, drainage, etc., than on the more intimate hourly
needs of fresh air and clean rooms. The halls, study rooms, and dining
rooms of colleges are notoriously ill ventilated and not over clean.

The senses are blunted at an age when they should be keenly
sensitive. It is only within ten years or so that very many of the
higher schools have made a point of indoor sanitation beyond plumbing
provisions. Outdoor sports have been relied upon to give sufficient
impetus to the health side of education.

A new element has come into the State universities through the Home
Economics courses, which have been steadily growing in favor during
the last two decades. Within that time several buildings have been
erected and equippe