168 SCHOOL SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS

MATHEMATICS SECTION OF THE ASSOCIATION OFKENTUCKY COLLEGES.

The Mathematics Section of the Association of Kentucky Colleges helda meeting at Lexington on Dec. 4.The ’feature of the session was the discussion of a course of study

for the high schools of the state. The following was unanimously

agreed upon: simple elementary algebra, for at least half a year.should precede the high school course; the first year in high .schoolshould cover algebra to quadratics with a brief study of quadratics;geometry, plane completed, should occupy the second year, and freeuse should be made of algebra; the third year should be given to the

completion of high school algebra, with much use of geometry as thesource of problems.The section will meet at Georgetown in April, and until that time

will devote itself to working out the correlation of the different branchesof high and elementary school mathematics, and may have something

of considerable interest to report later.The question of the best .use of a fourth year in mathematics in high

schools is still under consideration. JOSEPHINE A. ROBINSON.

ASSOCIATION OF THE TEACHERS OF MATHEMATICS IN THEMIDDLE STATES AND MARYLAND.

The thirteenth meeting of this Association was held at the Collegeof the City of New York on Saturday, December 4. The day was givenup to the reading of two papers�"Mathematics in the Ethical CultureHigh School," by Charles B. Walsh of New York City, and "Some Sug-gestions in the Teaching of Geometry," by Isaac J. Schwatt of theUniversity of Pennsylvania, and to the reports of the various com-mittees. The most important report was the one on Algebra Syllabus,presented by the chairman, Gustave Legras, College of the City ofNew York.The Algebra Syllabus was discussed in detail, and, after some amend-

ments, was adopted by the Association. The committee was continued,with power to make any necessary alterations in the preliminaryreport and to make out the syllabus for advanced algebra.The following officers were elected for the year: President, William

H. Metzler, Syracuse University; vice-president, Daniel D. Feldman,Erasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn; secretary, Eugene R. Smith,Polytechnic Preparatory School, Brooklyn; treasurer, M. Edna Shaw,

William Penn High School, Philadelphia; members of the council

(2 years), Paul N. Beck, George Washington .University, Washington,

D. C.; (3 years), Howard F. Hart, High School, Montclair, N. J.;Isaac J. Schwatfc, University of Pennsylvania.

The secretary was instructed to report for the Association at the

Federation meeting in Boston, December 27.EUGENE R. SMITH, Secretary.