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Capen, as the new head of the institution, 'will 

 have charge of developing the greater univer- 

 sity. Its enrollment this fall totals 1,670 in 

 the colleges of medicine, law, pharmacy, chem- 

 istry, arts and dentistry. The faculty- num- 

 bers 262. 



Dr. Capen will be installed as chancellor on 

 Saturday, October 28. Between fifty and sev- 

 enty-five of the best known leaders in education 

 in the United States and Canada will attend as 

 delegates from the colleges and universities 

 with which they are connected. Speakers at 

 the inaugural will include President Albott 

 Lawrence Lowell, of Harvard; President Liv- 

 ingston Farrand of Cornell; President John A. 

 Cousens, of Tufts; Sir Richard Falconer, of 

 the University of Toronto; Dr. Frank P. 

 Graves, New York state commissioner of edu- 

 cation, and Governor Nathan L. Miller, of New 

 York. 



Following the installation of Dr. Capen and 

 luncheons for men and women delegates at the 

 University and Twentieth Century Clubs, re- 

 spectively, there will be a flag-raising at Rotary 

 Athletic Field just before the Buffalo-Clarkson 

 foot-ball game. Rotary Field was made pos- 

 sible by contributions of Rotary Club members 

 over and above what they otherwise contributed 

 to the endowment fund. This field will be part 

 of the campus. The inaugural dinner will be 

 held in the evening. 



On Friday afternoon, October 27, exercises 

 will be held for dedication of Foster Hall, the 

 new chemical laboratory of the University of 

 Buffalo. Following an academic procession, 

 the dedication will take place. Funds for erec- 

 tion of the building, which cost upwards of 

 half a million dollars, were contributed during 

 the endowment fund campaign by 0. E. Foster, 

 a Buffalo philanthropist. 



The laboratory is the first of the buildings 

 to be erected on the new 150-acre site to which, 

 ultimately, all the university departments and 

 activities will be transferred. It is located at 

 the northern end of the 'city, amid beautiful 

 surroundings, and is an ideal location for devel- 

 opment of the greater University of Buffalo. 



The expansion program of the University of 

 Buffalo comes as an incident in its long record 

 of usefulness, which started when Millard Fill- 



more, thirteenth president of the United States, 

 was its first chancellor seventy-five years ago. 

 Dr. Capen, the son of a former president of 

 Tufts College, commenced his career as instruc- 

 tor, assistant professor and then full professor 

 in modern languages in Clark College, Worces- 

 ter. Next he was professor of German and 

 lecturer on educational administration in Clark 

 LTniversity. He was a member of the Worces- 

 ter school board from 1908 to 1914 and special- 

 ist in higher education in the U. S. Bureau of 

 Education from 1914 to 1919, when he accept- 

 ed directorship of the American Council on 

 Education. 



THE PRESIDENCY OF THE MASSACHUSETTS 

 INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 



Dr. Samuel Wesley Stratton, for twenty- 

 one years director of the Bureau of Standards 

 at Washington, was elected president of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Octo- 

 ber 11. He will assume the position on Janu- 

 ary 1. 



The institute has been without an executive 

 head since the death of Dr. Richard C. Mac- 

 Laurin in January, 1920. Dr. Ernest Fox 

 Nichols was elected president in 1921, but was 

 forced by ill health to resign a few months later 

 without having served in office. A committee 

 of faculty and corporation members has carried 

 on the administrative work. 



Dr. Stratton was born in Litchfield, III., in 

 1861, and was graduated in 1884 from the Uni- 

 vereity of Illinois, where he later became pro- 

 fessor of physics and electrical engineering. 

 From 1892 to 1901 he was professor of physics 

 in the Unversity of Chicago. 



As head of the Bureau of Standards he has 

 built up from a small office of weights and 

 measures employing three or four persons a 

 bureau which occupies a dozen buildings and 

 has a staff of more than 900 employees. The 

 bureau is closely aligned with the industries of 

 the country, aiding them in research work and 

 development of methods of precision. 



Dr. Stratton has received the honorary de- 

 gree of doctor of engineering from the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois and that of doctor of science 

 from the Western University of Pennsylvania, 

 the Universitv of Cambridge and from Yale 



