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established department of veterinary science, and will enter upon his duties 

 September 1. O. B. Whipple, of the Colorado Colleso and Station, has been 

 appointed horticulturist, beKinnlnjj work July 1. Whitfield Spain and Elwood 

 Morris, graduates of this college, have been appointed to station positions, the 

 fornier becoming assistant in agronomy in charge of agricultural engineering 

 work, and the latter assistant biologist for work in botany. 



Nevada University and Station. — Dr. C. A. Jacobson, of the Rockefeller Insti- 

 tute, has been ai»pointed chemist. 



Cornell University. — A portrait of the late Dr. George Chapman Caldwell was 

 I)resented to- the university, June 16, by his colleagues and former students. 

 The presentation address was made by Hon. Andrew D. White. 



North Dakota College. — A department of education has been established in 

 accordance with the Nelson Amendment, with Arland D. Weeks as professor in 

 charge. In addition to general courses in the history of education, psychology, 

 adolescence, school observation, and administration, it provides a special course 

 in agricultural and industrial education, supplemented with occasional lectures 

 by specialists in these subjects. The new department conducts an industrial 

 summer school for teachers this year, August 2-26. Instruction will be given in 

 the regular public school subjects and also in elementary agriculture, manual 

 training, nature study, domestic science, agricultural botany, and agricultural 

 and industrial education. In addition to the class room instructiion many spe- 

 cial lectures have been announced, among which are one by Dr. A. C. True, of 

 this Office, on The Point of View and Atmosi)here in the Rural Schools, one by 

 Dean L. 11. Bailey, of Cornell University, on The Outlook for Country Life, and 

 seven by F. W. Howe, of this Office, on different phases of public-school agricul- 

 ture and country-life problems. 



Industrialist notes the appointment of Miss Jessie A. Hoover as professor of 

 home economics. 



Ohio University. — John F. Lyman, Ph. D. (Yale, 1009), formerly an assistant 

 in the university, has been appointed assistant pi-ofessor of agricultural chem- 

 istry and will begin his duties with the next academic year. 



Porto Rico Station. — Recent appointments include C. F. Kinman, of the Cuban 

 Station, as horticulturist, vice the late M. J. lorns, and William C. Taylor as 

 assistant chemist. 



Rhode Island College. — ImJustriaUst notes the appointment of Miss Helen B. 

 Thompson as professor of home economics. 



Clemson College. — Press reports announce the resignation of Dr. P. H. INIell, 

 for the past seven years president of the college. Dr. C. H. Shattuck, asso- 

 ciate professor of botany and forestry, has resigned to accept a professorship 

 in the Uni\erslty of Idaho. 



South Dakota College. — The legislature has appropriated .$10,000 for an addi- 

 tion to the chemical laboratory and equipment therefor, and a like amount 

 for the erection and equipment of a dairy barn. 



Tennessee University.— The Chattanooga News of June 10 announces that the 

 ngricultural dei)artment of the university has offered free scholarships in the 

 Summer School of the South, held at Knoxville, to four teachers in each 

 county of the State who take the courses in elementary agriculture and horti- 

 culture, introduce this work in their own schools, ;ind assist in getting it into 

 the other schools of their county. These scholarships are worth .$10 each, 

 and api)ointments to them are made by the various county superintendents. 

 They adinjt appointees not only to the courses in agriculture and horticulture 

 (four hours per day) but also to any of two hundred or more other classes 

 for which the teachers have time. 



