EDUCATIONAL RELATIONS OF THE PROFESSIONS

To American educational progress, specialization in various academic divisions has contributed greatly. With the increase of specialization, however, has come the danger of one educational unit isolating itself from another. So far have we gone in creating departmental independence that it is regarded as a notable exception when departments cooperate in a study important to each, such as the one conducted in this city by professors of mathematics, physics, astronomy and geology. The independent college is constantly facing isolation from graduate and professional schools; and each of the latter from all the educational achievements in other divisions of the academic world. Conscious of the danger, some of these divisions have learned the importance of cooperating in the solution of common problems, especially the colleges and the schools represented in the powerful regional associations.

Among the professions and professional schools the danger likewise exists and to some extent has been met