Centralization in Study.

Last evening in Harvard 1 Principal J. M. Green of the N. J. State Normal School lectured before the Harvard Pedagogical Club, on "Centralization" as applying to a system of study.

In beginning, Mr. Green spoke of the increased importance which teaching, as a subject in itself, is now taking. We have been too conservative, but in this new awakening we are, perhaps, becoming too liberal; that is, we are too apt to make use of what might be called patent methods in education. Such a method is that known as centralization, the determining principle of which is that one continuous central theme shall run through the entire curriculum and that all other subjects shall be made merely supplementary to this. Mr. Green then disscussed the views of several advocates of the system and at the close of his talk questions from the audience in regard to the subject were answered by the lecture.