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originality, adaptability and broadness 

 of mind, and probably uses with dis- 

 cretion " life " rather than " curric- 

 ulum." The general spirit in the col- 

 lege is said to be excellent, and credit 

 is given for this, as well as for the 

 remarkable growth of the institution, 

 to President Tucker. 



As shown by the accompanying illus- 

 trations, the situation of Dartmouth 

 among the New Hampshire hills is 

 beautiful, and the campus and build- 

 ings make a pleasing impression. The 

 original Dartmouth Hall, destroyed by 

 fire, has been rebuilt effectively in 

 brick. College Hall, a club house 

 and commons, made excellent head- 

 quarters for the association. The sci- 

 entific departments are well housed in 

 the Butterfield Museum for the nat- 

 ural sciences, the Wilder Laboratory 

 for physics, Culver Hall containing 

 the chemical department and the Shat- 

 tuck Observatory. 



INTERNA TIONAL CONGRESSES 

 AND PERMANENT INTERNA- 

 TIONAL BUREAUS 

 Science and commerce are breaking 

 down the barriers between the nations. 

 Commerce is at present competitive, 

 having tariffs, navies and the rest as 

 its adjuncts, but it will gradually be- 

 come denationalized. Science is by its 

 very nature cooperative, and interna- 

 tional congresses advance in equal 

 measure science and good will. Of 

 somewhat unusual interest are the two 

 international congresses which meet in 

 Washington next month, one concerned 

 with fisheries and one with tubercu- 

 losis. The fisheries are to a consider- 

 able extent subject to international 

 control, and tuberculosis is the disease 

 most likely to be mitigated by com- 

 bined action against it. 



The fisheries congress, which is the 

 fourth to be held, opens on September 

 22, and after the sessions in Washing- 

 ton, special meetings will be held in 

 New York, Boston, Gloucester and pos- 

 sibly in other places in New England. 



Other places which may be visited 

 are Baltimore, the center 01 the oyster 

 industry of Chesapeake Bay, and Chi- 

 cago and other lake ports, where the 

 fishery trade and methods of the great 

 lakes, the most valuable fresh-water 

 fisheries in the world, may be studied. 

 , Twelve governments have already ac- 

 cepted the invitation of the United 

 States to be officially represented, and 

 delegates have been appointed by the 

 governors of many of the states. In 

 view of the large number of persons 

 who will attend as individuals or as 

 representatives of important fishery 

 societies, the congress promises to be 

 important in its representative char- 

 acter, size and the value of its pro- 

 ceedings. The subjects included in the 

 program are: Commercial fisheries; 

 Matters affecting the fishermen and 

 the fishing population; Legislation and 

 regulation ; International matters af- 

 fecting the fisheries; Aquiculture; 

 Acclimatization ; Fishways ; Biological 

 investigation of the waters and their 

 inhabitants; Diseases and parasites of 

 fishes; Crustaceans, mollusks and 

 other water animals; Angling and 

 sport fishing. 



The International Congress on Tu- 

 berculosis will meet on September 28, 

 in the new building of the United 

 States National Museum, where an ex- 

 tensive exhibit will be arranged. Six 

 or seven hundred delegates from all 

 nations of the world will be present, 

 and the pathologists, physicians and 

 students of social conditions will prob- 

 ably be numbered by the thousands. 

 The members will include the most 

 eminent students of the disease, and 

 their discussions will lead to the dif- 

 fusion of knowledge concerning causes 

 and remedies and to renewed efforts to 

 increase knowledge. The congress will 

 also perform an important service by 

 awakening "popular interest and con- 

 cern. More than 6,000,000 of those 

 now living in the United States will 

 die of tuberculosis, yet it is essentially 

 a preventable disease. Both of the 



