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narrow chests and limited vital capacity result- 

 ing from a bad heredity. It is hoped that a 

 considerable response in the way of subscrip- 

 tions will come from those interested outside 

 the Territory, as the recent financial stringency 

 has left those who would gladly respond inca- 

 pacitated to carry the entire burden. It is un- 

 derstood that subscriptions may be sent to 

 Hon. F. W. Clancy, Mayor of the City of Al- 

 buquerque, or to C. L. Herrick, President of 

 the University. 



GENERAL. 



We are glad to learn that Washington Uni- 

 versity, St. Louis, has just received generous 

 gifts enabling it to remove to its new site facing 

 Forest Park. This site was purchased with a 

 fund of §200,000, contributed by seventy-five 

 different subscribers. Funds for a library, to 

 cost §100,000, are in the hands of the directors 

 by the bequest of the late Stephen Ridgley. 

 The following additional buildings have now 

 been given by members of the Board of Direc- 

 tors : (1) A hall of languages, costing $200,- 

 000, by Mr. Robert S. Brookings ; (2) an en- 

 gineering building, costing §150,000, by Mr. 

 Samuel Cupples, and (3) a chemistry building, 

 costing $100,000, by Mr. Adolphus Busch. Mr. 

 Brookings has also offered §100,000 on condition 

 that §500,000 be subscribed at once for an en- 

 dowment. St. Louis is, in size, the fourth city 

 of the United States, and the University is now 

 ready to take its place among the leading insti- 

 tutions of America. 



Mr. Philip D. Armour has given §750,000 to 

 the Armour Institute of Chicago, which he had 

 previously endowed with §1,500,000. 



The will of the late Alexander M. Proudfit, 

 of New York City, gives §30,000 to Columbia 

 University for two fellowships, one in letters and 

 one for advanced studies in medicine. There are 

 also numerous other beciuests to public institu- 

 tions, including §10,000 each to the Public Li- 

 brary and to the New York Free Circulating 

 Library. 



Knox College, at Galesburg, II!., has col- 

 lected a fund of §100,000, thus securing the ad- 

 ditional gift of §25,000_made by Dr. D. K. Pear- 

 sons. 



At a recent annual meeting of the Patent 



Nut and Bolt Company (Limited), held at Bir- 

 mingham, the sum of £5,000 was contributed 

 to the fund which is being raised for the estab- 

 lishment of a University in the City of Bir- 

 mingham. 



President Seth Low, of Columbia Univer- 

 sity, was the University Day Orator of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania at its annual celebration 

 on Washington's Birthday. 



The Register of Lehigh University, South 

 Bethlehem, Pa., for the year 1898-99 shows 

 but few changes in the teaching force. Profes- 

 sor Langdon C. Stewardson has assumed the 

 duties of the chair of mental and moral phil- 

 osophy, and the new professorship of history 

 and economics has been filled by the election 

 of Mr. John L. Stewart, late lecturer in that 

 department. The department of mechanical 

 engineering has lost the services of Messrs. B. 

 H. Jones and L. O. Danse as instructors, and 

 their places are filled by Messrs. L. N. Sullivan 

 and J. C. Peck. Messrs. John Boyt and F. O. 

 Dufour have been promoted from the grade of 

 assistant to that of instructor, and Mr. Joseph 

 Barren has been elected instructor in geology 

 and lithology. Solid geometry has been added 

 to the requirements for entrance to the Latin 

 Scientific course and to that in Science and 

 Letters ;'>nd it is announced that in 1900 and 

 thereafter the requirements for entrance^ to 

 the course in Science and Letters, or to any 

 course in the School of Technology, will include 

 Plane Trigonometry and Logarithms, through 

 the solution of right and oblique triangles. 

 The elective system has been extended to 

 the Latin Scientific course, so that it now seems 

 to be possible for a student in either of the 

 literary courses to complete before graduation 

 one-half or more of any one of the technical 

 courses. Such a student might, therefore, 

 complete in six years the general training of 

 the literary course and the special training of a 

 professional course, and would in the end be 

 much better equipped for professional work than 

 one who had taken the technical course alone. 

 The principle of elective studies is introduced 

 also into the technical courses. In the course 

 of Civil Engineering the student may elect a 

 large amount of work in Architecture, in addi- 



