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lege and had in it, besides the Lane Hall, a 

 number of amphitheaters and lecture rooms, 

 and the Lane Medical Library. With the re- 

 moval of the Lane Medical Library to its new 

 building across the street and with the shift- 

 ing of laboratories and the rearrangement of 

 the space formerly occupied by Lane Hall, con- 

 siderable additional space has been gained for 

 the outpatient clinics and laboratories. The 

 lower floor of the building is devoted entirely 

 to the surgical outpatient clinic, the surgical 

 specialties and the history room and drugstore, 

 the second floor to the medical outpatient 

 clinic and the clinics of pediatrics, neurology 

 and dermatology. The three upper floors are 

 devoted to the pathological museum and the 

 laboratories of experimental medicine, pathol- 

 ogy, pharmacology and experimental surgery. 

 Reading rooms have been provided for the 

 students in close connection with the clinical 

 laboratory. This laboratory and the outpa- 

 tient department are separated by only a short 

 corridor from the clinical wards of Lane Hos- 

 pital so that both in- and outpatient material 

 is equally available for purposes of teaching. 

 The front part of Lane Hall has been con- 

 verted into a modern amphitheater suitable 

 for demonstrations. About 12,000 patients 

 were received by the outpatient department 

 during the past year with a total number of 

 visits of over 60,000. 



A BILL to establish a college of medicine and 

 dentistry at the Ohio State University is now 

 before the state legislature and has passed the 

 senate. If it becomes a law, the Starling 

 Ohio Medical College of Columbus will be 

 transferred to the state and become the basis 

 of the new college. 



Captain 0. E. Marsh, TJ. S. IST., has made 

 public the details of the plan for giving a 

 number of college undergraduates an oppor- 

 tunity to take a summer cruise on some of 

 the navy vessels and thus to familiarize them- 

 selves with life on board ship and fit them- 

 selves to become members of a sort of naval 

 reserve. The college students will be assigned 

 in squads of 20 to each ship, and as far as 

 possible men from the same college will be 

 kept together. 



The Prussian minister of education has an- 

 nounced that fees at Prussian universities for 

 foreign students will be doubled. Russian 

 students will hereafter be required to be grad- 

 uates of gymnasia. There has been agitation 

 in Germany recently in regard to foreign stu- 

 dents, the University of Munich having lim- 

 ited the number to three per cent. There are 

 at present 5,196 foreigners studying at the 

 German universities, of whom 338 are Ameri- 

 cans. 



The 126th anniversary of the granting of 

 the first charter by the legislature of Penn- 

 sylvania was celebrated by the University of 

 Pittsburgh on Friday, February 28, 1913. 

 The addresses were given by Provost E. F. 

 Smith, University of Pennsylvania, President 

 E. E. Sparks, State College, and President 

 W. H. Crawford, Allegheny College. The 

 honorary degree of doctor of science was con- 

 ferred upon John Price Jackson, dean of the 

 School of Engineering, State College. 



Dean F. F. Wesbrook, of the medical 

 school of the University of Minnesota, has 

 resigned to accept the presidency of the Uni- 

 versity of British Columbia. Dr. Wesbrook, 

 who is a Canadian, has been largely respon- 

 sible for the development of the medical 

 school of the University of Minnesota and its 

 recent reorganization. 



Professor Frederick H. Sykes, director of 

 the School of Practical Arts in Teachers Col- 

 lege, has resigned in order to accept the 

 presidency of the new Connecticut College 

 for Women at New London. 



Dr. Frederick E. Bolton has been elected 

 dean of the new college of education at the 

 University of Washington. Professor Bolton 

 was called to the University of Washington 

 last year from the University of Iowa, where 

 he was director of the school of education. 



The fact that Professor E. B. Greene re- 

 signed his position as dean of the College of 

 Literature and Arts of the University of Illi- 

 nois when he took leave of absence last year, 

 has been made public. The reason Professor 

 Greene gives for resigning is that he did not 

 desire the administrative work in connection 

 with the office. At the time of the resigna- 



