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Tlie initiation was followed by a dinner for 



■which the following progTam was arranged: 



Toastmaster : Marston T. Bogeet, professor of or- 

 ganic chemistry. 



Engineering research : George B. Pegbam, dean of 

 the schools of mines, engineering and chemistry. 



Eesearch in forest products: Samuel J. Record, 

 professor of forest products, Yale University. 



Science in the industries: M. C. Whitakeb, vice- 

 president of the V. S. Industrial Alcohol Com- 

 pany. 



Applied psychology : E. L. Thorndike, professor of 

 educational psychology. 



The new members: Stephen P. Burke. 



At the meeting of the Executive Com- 

 mittee of the Massachiisetts Society for Men- 

 tal Hygiene held March 9, 1920, the following 

 resolution was adopted: 



The directors of the Massachusetts Society for 

 Mental Hygiene desire to express their deep sor- 

 row and their great sense of loss in the death of 

 Professor Elmer Ernest Southard. To many of 

 them he was a warm personal friend whom they 

 will sorely miss. His great natural abilities, his 

 extraordinary powers of insight and deduction 

 were most valuable to the society in which he took 

 an active and stimulating interest. 



The directors feel that they have lost nat only a 

 most valuable adviser and colleague but one on 

 whose sympathy and friendship they could always 

 depend. 



Dr. George Egbert Eisher, professor of 

 mathematics in the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, died on March 28, aged fifty-seven 

 years. The following resolutions have been 

 passed by faculties of the university: 



The faculties of the college, the graduate school 

 and the school education have learned with pro- 

 found sorrow of the death of George Egbert 

 Ksher, professor of mathematics and sometime 

 dean of the college. 



Professor Fisher's connection with the faculty 

 dates from 1889, when he was appointed assistant 

 professor of mathematics. 



Earnest in purpose, lofty in ideals, a patient and 

 inspiring teacher, he invariably won and held the 

 respect and love of his students. 



We of the faculty wish to bear testimony to our 

 appreciation of the profound scholarship of our 

 departed colleague, and to our recognition of his 

 exceptionally deep and abiding love for mathe- 



matics. It was always his aim to foster a more 

 general interest in this subject. We would testify 

 also to his ready and sympathetic cooperation in 

 all that was for the best interests of the university. 



Sir Anderson Stuart, professor of physiol- 

 ogy in the University of Sydney since 1883 

 and the dean of its medical faculty, died on 

 February 29, aged sixty-four years. 



The magnetic survey vessel, Carnegie, ar- 

 rived at St. Helena Island, on March 30. She 

 will sail again early in April, bound for Cape- 

 town. 



The American Medical Association, as has 

 been already noted, will hold its seventy-first 

 annual session in New Orleans, beginning on 

 April 26. This is the fourth time the associa- 

 tion has convened in New Orleans. The 

 twentieth annual session under the presidency 

 of Dr. William Owen Baldwin in 1869 aided 

 in bringing the members of the medical pro- 

 fession in the south into cordial relationship 

 with the naitional association following the 

 Civil War. In 1885, under the presidency of 

 Dr. Henry E. Campbell, the thirty-sixth an- 

 nual session was held in New Orleans. In 

 1903 the association met in the city in its 

 fifty-fourth annual session under the presi- 

 dency of Dr. Erank Billings. The present 

 meeting will 'be opened under the presidency 

 of Dr. Alexander Lambert, of New York, and 

 Dr. William C. Braisted, surgeon-general of 

 the U. S. Navy, will be inducted into the office 

 of president. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The legislature of the state of Mississippi 

 has passed a bill appropriating the sum of 

 $350,000 for a new building for the Univer- 

 sity of Mississippi, to house the department 

 of chemistry and the school of pharmacy. 



Dr. Arthur Twining Hadley, since 1899 

 president of Yale University, has presented 

 his resignation, to take effect in June, 1921, 

 when he will have reached the age of sixty- 

 five years. 



Albert W. Smith, dean of Sibley College 

 of Mechanical Engineering, Cornell Univer- 



