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exercises included addresses by prominent 

 alumni and the presentation of a fine portrait 

 by Carle J. Blermer, of New York, wbieh is to 

 hang in the library. For the past two years 

 Dean Perkins has been acting president. 



Lieutenant Colonel Wilder D. Bancroft, 

 professor of physical chemistry at Cornell Uni- 

 versity, now on leave as acting chief of the 

 Chemical "Warfare Service, TJ. S. A., was the 

 recipient of the honorary degree of doctor of 

 science at the June commencement of Lafay- 

 ette College. 



On June 2, the Secretary of War con- 

 ferred upon Lieutenant Colonel Edward Or- 

 ton, Jr., Motor Transport Corps, formerly in 

 charge of the Service Division, the distin- 

 guished service medal, with the following ci- 

 tation: "His untiring energy and splendid 

 judgment were displayed in the efficient or- 

 ganization of the Engineering Division of the 

 Motor Transport Corps, in bringing about 

 standardization of equipment and supplies 

 and in efficiently directing the forces of the 

 motor industry to the mutual advantage of 

 the Army and Industry itseK." Lieutenant 

 Colonel Orton was formerly dean of the col- 

 lege of engineering, Ohio State University. 



The Eicketts prize of $250, given by the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago each year to its students for 

 the best research work in bacteriology, was di- 

 vided between E. B. Eink and E. W. Mulson, 

 both doctors of philosophy. 



Dr. Nelson W. Janney, formerly chief of 

 the medical services of Base Hospital No. 99, 

 American Expeditionary Eorces, has resigned 

 his professorship in the New Tork Post- 

 graduate Hospital to succeed the late Dr. 

 Nathaniel Bowditch Potter in the director- 

 ship of the Memorial Laboratory and Clinic 

 for the Study and Treatment of Nephritis, 

 Gout and Diabetes, Santa Barbara, Calif. 



Howard Eonda has returned to his position 

 in the department of bacteriology in the Long 

 Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, after eight- 

 een months' service in France. 



Captain Oscar Eiddle, Sanitary Corps, has 

 returned from France and resumed his duties 



at the Station for Experimental Evolution, 

 Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. 



The National Research Council has ap- 

 pointed a committee to encourage research in 

 colloid chemistry and to foster the training of 

 more colloid chemists, consisting of the fol- 

 lowing: Harry N. Holmes, chairman, Oberlin 

 College; Jerome Alexander, New York City; 

 W. D. Bancroft, Washington, D. C. ; G. H. A. 

 Clowes, Eli Lilly Co., Indianapolis; W. A. 

 Patrick, Johns Hopkins University, J. A. 

 Wilson, Milwaukee. 



Professor E. B. Van Vleck, of the Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin, has accepted an invitation 

 as lecturer on mathematics at Harvard Uni- 

 versity for the second half of the ensuing aca- 

 demic year. Professor Van Vleck will give, 

 besides a course in the calculus, one on the 

 theory of functions of a complex variable and 

 on the partial difEerential equations of mathe- 

 matical physics. 



Dr. Arthur M. Jordan returns to the Uni- 

 versity of Arkansas this year as head of the 

 department of psychology after a two years' 

 leave of absence spent in research work at Co- 

 lumbia University. 



Donald B. MacMillan, leader of the 

 Crocker Land expedition, will be provided with 

 a small schooner with auxiliary power, to be 

 christened The Bowdoin, when he leaves next 

 summer on his nest Arctic exploration trip, 

 according to plans of the alumni of Bowdoin 

 College. The schooner will be built to with- 

 stand the pressure of icefloes. The party, 

 about ten in number, will devote two or three 

 years in exploration work for the National 

 Geographic Society. 



The Lane Medical Lectures, which are held 

 biennially at the Stanford University Medical 

 School, will this year be given by Dr. Alonzo 

 Englebert Taylor, professor of physiological 

 chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. 

 Dr. Taylor has been representative secretary 

 of agriculture on the War Trade Board for the 

 past two years, and his lectures will deal with 

 the results of his nutritional and medical sur- 

 vey of European food conditions. The exact 



