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SUBJECTS PRESENTED IN PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME. 11 
Thesis : Physical education in the South. 
Jr. William A. Lambeth, University of 
/irginia, Charlottesville, Va. 
Thesis : Physical education in Canada. 
Jr. R. Tait Mackenzie, McGill University, 
Montreal, Canada. 
Discussion : How far is it desirable to 
wtempt to secure State legislation (in the 
Jnited States) making physical training 
ompulsory in the public schools ? 
Thesis : The Royal Central Gymnastic 
Institute of Stockholm—its aims and work. 
Prof. Li. M. Torngren, Director of Royal 
Central Gymnastic Institute. Stockholm, 
Sweden. Discussion. 
Thesis : How should physical exercises 
for school purposes be selected and graded ? 
Dr. J. Gardner Smith, Supervisor of Phys- 
ical Training in Public Schools, New 
York City. Discussion. 
Thesis : The revival of Greek gymastics 
in Germany. Jaro Pawel, University 
Teacher, Vienna, Austria. 
Thesis : The movement for promoting 
popular and youthful sports in Germany. 
James Li. Hughes, Inspector of Schools, 
Toronto, Ontario. Discussion. 
Thesis : English experience in providing 
she poor of cities with out-of-door facilities 
for exercise. The Rt. Honorable the 
Earl of Meath, London, England. Dis- 
cussion. 
Thesis : The athletic movement in 
France. Baron Pierre de Coubertin, Paris, 
France. Discussion. 
Thesis : The observation and study of 
novement and mental states. Dr. Francis 
Warner, Physician to London Hospital, 
London, England. ’ 
Thesis : The relation of physical train- 
ng to other forms of education. Dr. G. 
Stanley Hall, President Clark University, 
Worcester, Mass. Discussion. 
The physical training of deaf-mutes. 
A. Gutzmann, Instructor in City Insti- 
tute for the Deaf and Dumb. Berlin, 
Prussia. 
Thesis : The physical training of crim- 
nals. Dr. H. D. Wey, State Reforma- 
sory, Elmira, N. Y. Discussion. 
Thesis : The North American Turner- 
bund ; its history, aims, and achievements, 
H. Muench, ex-President N. A. Turner- 
bund, St. Louis, Mo. 
Thesis : The normal school of the N. A. 
Turnerbund. J. Toensfeldt, St. Louis, 
Mo. 
Thesis : The physiology of the German 
system of gymnastics. Hans Ballin, San- 
dusky, O. 
Thesis : School gymnastics in the King- 
dom of Saxony. Moritz Zettler, Teacher 
in Gymnasium in Chemnitz, Saxony. 
Thesis : Swedish school gymnastics in 
England. Mme. Bergman Oesterberg, 
London, England. Discussion. 
Thesis : Swedish military gymnastics. 
Capt. Carl Silow, Instructor Royal Central 
Gymnastic Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. 
Discussion, 
Thesis : The laws of muscular and ner- 
vous fatigue and their relation to physical 
sducation. Dr. Warren P. Lombard, Pro- 
fessor of Physiclogy, University of Michi- 
ran, Ann Arbor, Mich. Discussion. 
RATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY IN 
EDUCATION. 
Address by the President of the Depart- 
aent, Rev. James McCosh, D.D. Topic : 
teality—what place bas it in philosophy ? 
discussion. 
Thesis : Can psychology be founded on 
'onsciousness alone, or does it need physi- 
logy ? Discussion. 
Thesis : Perception, conception, and 
rimitive truth. Discussion, 
Thesis : Aristotle’s doctrine of a first 
rinciple, as set forth in the XIth book of 
sis Metaphysics. Discussion. 
Thesis : Self-activity in education. Dis- 
sussion, 
Thesis : Wundt’s psychology of the will. 
)iscussion. 
IXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY IN 
EDUCATION. 
General topic : Child study. 
Address by the President of the Depart- 
aent, Dr. G. Stanley Hall : Child study as 
v basis for psychology and psychological 
aching. Discussion. 
Thesis : The imaginations of children. 
riscussion. 
Thesis : Exercise of the will in children. 
Viscussion., 
Thesis : A study of children’s theology. 
discussion. 
Thesis : Child study as a basis for peda- 
sogy. Discussion. 
Thesis : The new psychology in normal 
chools. Discussion, 
Thesis : Constitutionally bad spellers. 
riscussion, 
Thesis: Systematic cultivation of self- 
onsciousness in children. Discussion. 
Thesis : Development of motor ability in 
chool-children. Discussion. 
Thesis : A pedagogical experimental 
eed. Discussion. 
EDUCATIONAL PUBLICATIONS. 
Address of welcome by Dr. Henry Bar- 
ard, President of the Department. 
Thesis : Present ideals in educational