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Leipzig on November 26. It now includes 

 over 75 per cent, of the German medical pro- 

 fession, the membership being about 25,000 on 

 October 1, 1912. The work of the association 

 requires the services of 1,280 confidential 

 agents and superintendents who serve without 

 pay. During the past business year the de- 

 partment for exchanges of practise placed 

 3,600 physicians in suitable positions. The 

 widows' fund, a fund made up of voluntary 

 contributions, distributed to the widows of 

 physicians $9,500. In preparation for the 

 struggle which is expected to occur against 

 the Krankenkassen in consequence of the new 

 insurance law, a fund has been provided by 

 contributions of at least 100 Marks, loaned 

 without interest, which now amounts to more 

 than $250,000. The loan and death bureau, 

 founded by the association in 1910, now in- 

 cludes 14,000 members. This serves the double 

 purpose of making loans to its members on 

 sufficient security and of providing a death 

 benefit, which varies according to the con- 

 tributions from $50 to $500. The bureau has 

 hitherto loaned about $165,000. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 By the will of the late Mrs. Lucy Wharton 

 Drexel $70,000 is bequeathed to the museum 

 of the University of Pennsylvania, and $20,- 

 000 to the University Hospital. 



Through Dr. Andrew D. White, Mr. An- 

 drew Carnegie has given to Cornell Univer- 

 sity $25,000, which will probably be used as a 

 student loan fund. 



To parallel the work of the Deutsches Haus 

 of Columbia University an anonymous donor 

 has presented to the trustees the house at 411 

 West 117th Street as La Maison Frangaise. 

 The building, of which the cost is estimated at 

 $30,000, will be used as a center for the study 

 of French literature and civilization. Colum- 

 bia University has also received a gift of 

 $8,000 from Mr. Edward D. Adams, of New 

 York, for the equipment of a precision labora- 

 tory for physical research, to be known as the 

 Ernest Kempton Adams ('97S) Precision 

 Laboratory. 



By the will of Levi N. Stewart, of Minne- 

 apolis, Dartmouth College receives $75,000 and 

 Bowdoin College and Bates College $50,000 

 each. All the bequests are unconditional. 

 Mr. Stewart was a former inhabitant of Maine 

 and a graduate of Dartmouth College. 



Tufts College is given the residue of the 

 estate of Miss Hannah S. Moulton, of Ken- 

 sington, N. H., estimated at about $25,000, 

 for the founding of a scholarship. 



The recommendations of President Schur- 

 man, of Cornell University, in his latest an- 

 nual report as to faculty participation in the 

 university government were considered by the 

 board of trustees at their recent meeting. The 

 board recognized the desirability of closer rela- 

 tions and greater cooperation between the fac- 

 ulty and the board of trustees in matters 

 pertaining to the administration of the uni- 

 versity's affairs and referred the matter to a 

 committee of five, to be appointed to consider 

 and report recommendations to the board at a 

 later meeting, final action to be deferred until 

 after President Schurman's return. 



The regents of the University of Minnesota 

 have voted to refer to the university senate 

 for consideration the plan of granting six 

 months absence on full pay in lieu of sabbat- 

 ical leave for a year on half pay. It was also 

 voted to refer to the same body the question of 

 members of the staff accepting outside em- 

 ployment without the approval of the dean 

 and the president. 



Professor Ludwig Sinzheimer, of the Uni- 

 versity of Munich, will join the faculty of the 

 University of Wisconsin for the second sem- 

 ester, taking the place of Professor Richard 

 T. Ely, who has been appointed lecturer at 

 the University of London during the re- 

 mainder of the year. 



Mr. M. J. Prucha has been promoted from 

 an instructorship to an assistant professor- 

 ship of plant physiology in the Cornell Col- 

 lege of Agriculture. 



John W. Gilmore, president of the College 

 of Hawaii, has been appointed head of the 

 department of agronomy of the college of agri- 

 culture of the University of California and 



