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Alabama College. — C. C Thach, M. A., for about 15 years professor of English 

 in the college, has been elected to the presidency, made vacant by the death of 

 William LeRoy Broun. 



California University and St.\tion. — Leroy Anderson, in charge of dairy hus- 

 bandry, has been elected principal of the new California Polytechnic School which 

 has been located at San Luis Obispo. The last legislature appropriated $50,000 for 

 the establishment of such a school, and a tract of about 280 acres of land for a farm 

 and campus has been bought. One or more buildings will be erected during the 

 coming summer. For the present attention will be confined to agricultural instruc- 

 tion on a practical scale, but later it is expected to broaden the scope of the school 

 to include various trades. 



Delaware Station. — The governing board at a recent meeting adopted a resolution 

 calling for the appointment of a committee to investigate the method of managing 

 the station by the council, with a view to a jjossible change. The station council is 

 at present an administrative body, composed of the staff of the station and the com- 

 mittee on agriculture from the board of trustees. 



Purdue University and Station. — C. S. Plumb, professor of animal husbandry 

 and dairying in the university and directer of the station, has resigned to accept the 

 chair of animal husbandry in the Ohio State University. 



Kentucky Station. — C. W. Mathews, horticulturist, has withdrawn from the sta- 

 tion and will hereafter devote his time exclusively to college work. 



Louisiana University.— Congress, by a recent act, has ceded to the university 

 the ti'act of land embracing approximately 150 acres, together with the buildings, 

 which it has occupied subject to the needs of the United States for military pur- 

 poses. The tract was originally a military fort, and some years ago was turned over 

 to the State for the use of the university until such time as it might ])e needed for 

 purposes of defense. Mr. John Hill, a prominent sugar planter near Baton Eouge, 

 has given $32,000 to the university for the erection of a fireproof library building 

 as a memorial to his son. The State legislature at its recent session appropriated 

 $47,000 for the erection of a dormitory and a building for the mechanic arts depart- 

 ment, and $8,500 for furnishing the library building mentioned above. The usual 

 appropriation of $15,000 for the experiment stations was made, and the appropria- 

 tion for the State geological survey, which is under the charge of the director of the 

 stations, was increased to $2,500 a year for 2 years. 



Massachusetts Collecje and Station. — S. T. Maynard has resigned his position 

 as professor of horticulture in the college and horticulturist of the station. 



Michigan College and Station.— At a recent meeting of the board, C. D. Smith 

 was relieved from the superintendency of the farmers' institutes and made agricul- 

 turist of the station, in addition to his duties as director. L. R. Taft was made super- 

 intendent of institutes and also State inspector of orchards and nurseries in place of 

 D. W. Trine, resigned. Professor Taft is succeeded as head of the horticultural 

 department in the college by U. P. Hedrick, who also becomes superintendent of 

 the grounds. Philip W. Ayres, of New Hampshire, was elected professor of forestry. 

 The board also adopted plans for the new mechanical buildhig, which will contain 

 rooms for the departments of electrical engineering and physics and for civil engineer- 

 ing, and appropriated $5,000 for the equipment of the new bacteriological laboratory. 

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