THE training of a nurse includes two distinct partsdistinct, yet inseparable. First, the technical instruction and experience required in the practical care of the sick and the prevention of illness. Second, the training in conduct, in ideals of personal living. The question of personal living, the ideals of character and service which a nurse holds will greatly influence her practical work every day of her nursing career. It is easy in the pressure of training school life to devote all one's time to the first, the technical, part of a nurse's training-to subordinate the ethical to the technical, or to allow the ethical training to be crowded out entirely. Yet no amount of devotion to technical instruction will ever compensate for failure to give the nurse proper rules and principles of guidance in the moral realm; no amount of other classes which may be held will make up to a nurse what she loses, if the culture of character is forgotten during her training. No young woman can fail to be greatly influenced by the mental and moral atmosphere in which two or three highly impressionable years of her life are passed while in training, and by the ideals of life and conduct which are shaping during those years. The fact that pupil nurses are received at an earlier age than was the case twenty years ago, and that conditions make it impossible to make the careful selection of candidates that was possible in the earlier years of training schools, calls for more systematic and careful ethical teaching than has been customary.