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164 The Educational Screen It is a pleasure to announce further that this personnel is not co: posed of "postage-stamp" acceptances. Every member is active in the pi duction of this magazine—as contributor, as executive, or as advisor a director in some definite capacity. The Editorial Advisory Board, under the chairmanship of Profess T. W. Shepherd of the University of Oklahoma, will bear the major shz of the work in formulation of policies and determination of conten Each issue will contain one or more special editorials and formal artic signed by the contributing member. The different members of the Board will give special attention some particular phase of the subject. The vital matter of research a experiment will be mainly in the hands of Professor Shepherd and 1 eminent colleagues in the science of education. Dr. Abrams and I Cummings will be largely concerned with the field of the lantern slic Professors Burton and Stuart, with the theatrical screen, its influence a possibilities; Dr. MacAfee, with visual activities in church and communit Professor Storm, with agricultural education—and so on. The Editor Advisory Board as a whole, however, will combine to keep the policy the magazine specific and unified, yet at the same time broad enough cover the various important phases of the wide field. "Novelty" NOVELTY is one of the great forces operating in the developme of civilization. The human race is delicately susceptible to The "new" and the "strange" possess instant attraction—even v tue—for the human mind (and the mind of the educator is no exceptior The pursuit of novelty has led, in countless instances, to nothing—even serious harm; but in countless other instances it draws the individual in a new and unaccustomed field where changed horizons stimulate tl imagination and start the seeker upon new lines that lead to dazzlii successes. At least twice in history, for instance, apples were a novelty; fin when the serpent pointed one out to Eve, and again when one chanced fall while Isaac Newton was looking on. Tremendous results have follow* in the way of sin and gravitation. Exploration, discovery, invention- whether in the physical, intellectual or spiritual realm—owe an immeasu able debt to the compelling force of novelty. The path of education h; been strewn with novelties—some valuable, some vicious—and ardei followers can always be found for either kind.