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icy of tlie American Chemical Society for final but 

 prompt action. 



A COOPERATIVE COURSE IN ELECTRIC 

 ENGINEERING 



A COOPERATIVE course in electrical engineer- 

 ing, in which the General Electric Company 

 combines with the institute has heen estab- 

 lished at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology. Students undertaking this work will 

 have before them a course of five years in 

 length. The first two are identical with the 

 regular course in electrical engineering, and 

 the last three will be divided between instruc- 

 tion in theory at the institute and instruction 

 in practise at the West Lynn works of the 

 General Electric Company. The regular four- 

 year course will have certain omissions and 

 abridgements, to make time for the work at 

 Lynn, while the fifth year will be virtually 

 postgraduate study with emphasis on prob- 

 lems of administration, project, design and re- 

 search. The institute instructing staff has 

 been strengthened by the addition to its elec- 

 trical faculty of Professor Timble, who will be 

 alternately at the institute and at the works 

 with the students. 



For the present class there will be eleven 

 terms ahead, four terms a year. The first ten 

 terms are to be spent in alternate study at the 

 institute and at the works. The institute 

 terms are of eleven weeks each, followed by 

 two weeks' vacation, while the terms at the 

 works in Lynn are of thirteen weeks each. 

 One group of students will begin at the insti- 

 tute and the other at Lynn, and at the end 

 of the term they will change places. The 

 eleventh term, which is that just preceding 

 commencement, will be spent by both groups 

 at the institute. This, which is outside of the 

 two preliminary years, will fill the time, and 

 at the conclusion of the whole there will be an 

 optional additional term of thirteen weeks at 

 Lynn. 



The successful completion of the course will 

 lead to a degree of master of science, to be 

 conferred at the graduation exercises of Tech- 

 nology, and the degree of bachelor of science 

 will be conferred at the same time as of the 

 preceding year. 



This undertaking, which affords to the stu- 



dents the practise of the most important and 

 largest kind of commercial work, is undertaken 

 by the General Electric in order that it may 

 have a supply of properly trained young men 

 for its managers and superintendents. 



THE CORNELL UNIVERSITY MEDICAL 

 COLLEGE 



The Cornell University Medical College 

 opened its twenty-second annual session on 

 September 29, 1919. The annual address to 

 the students was delivered by Dr. Graham 

 Luck, professor of physiology. Two hundred 

 and eighteen students are registered in the 

 course leading to the degree of M.D., of whom 

 72 are registered for the first year in medicine 

 in the New York City division of the medical 

 college. There are in addition, forty medical 

 students in the first year of medicine at Cor- 

 nell University, Ithaca, IST. T., who will enter 

 the New York City division for the second 

 year, in 1921. 



The college also announces the following 

 appointments to the medical faculty in New 

 York City. 



E. F. DuBois, M.D., assistant professor of medi- 

 cine, director of medicine, Bellevue Hospital. 



Oscar M. ScHoss, M.D., professor of clinical 

 medicine, department of pediatrics. 



Henry H. M. Lyle, M.D., assistant professor of 

 surgery. 



Jeremiah S. Ferguson, M.D., assistant professor 

 of clinical medicine, department of pediatries. 



Nellis B. Foster, M.D., assistant professor of 

 medicine and associate attending physician to 

 New York Hospital. 



John C. A. Cerster, M.D., assistant professor of 

 clinical surgery. 



Charles V. Morrill, A.M., Ph.D., assistant pro- 

 fessor of anatomy. 



Eobert Chambers, A.M., Ph.D., assistant pro- 

 fessor of anatomy. 



THE LANE MEDICAL LECTURES 



The Lane Medical Lectures will be de- 

 livered this year by Dr. Alonzo E. Taylor, 

 professor of physiological chemistry at the 

 University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Taylor will 

 speak on the " Feeding of the Nations at 

 War." The lectures will take place at Lane 

 Hall on Sacramento Street near Webster, 



