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SCIENCE 



[N. 8. Vol. XXXVII. No. 965 



Survey, show that the number of brick mark- 

 eted in the Hudson River region in 1912 was 

 1,019,259,000, valued at $5,850,770, or $5.74 a 

 thousand, compared with 926,072,000 brick in 

 1911, valued at $4,717,633, or $5.09 a thousand. 

 This was an increase in 1912 of 93,187,000 

 brick and of $1,133,137 in value. The num- 

 ber of operating firms reporting in 1912 was 

 126. As in other branches of the clay-working 

 industry, the number of active firms reporting 

 is not equivalent to the number of yards, for 

 many firms have more than one yard. 



VNIVEMSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Wellesley College has received an anony- 

 mous gift of $100,000. 



In addition to $250,000 appropriated for a 

 building for the New York State College of 

 Forestry at Syracuse University, the legisla- 

 ture appropriated $50,000 for the maintenance 

 and development of the work for the coming 

 year. Last year through the kindness of Mrs. 

 Russell Sage, who gave something over $80,- 

 000, a Division of Agriculture was organized 

 at Syracuse University. This division is giv- 

 ing agricultural instruction for teachers and 

 general work for students of other colleges. 

 These courses in agriculture are given without 

 state or national aid. 



Governor Sulzer has signed a bill making 

 the New York American Veterinary College, 

 allied with New York University, the state 

 veterinary college for the eastern part of the 

 state. No appropriation of money was made 

 in the bill. 



Sophie Newcomb College, the woman's de- 

 partment of Tulane University, will shortly 

 erect on its new site on Audubon boulevard, 

 adjoining the university proper, four new 

 buildings to cost $600,000. 



It is announced that the executors of the 

 late Sir J. Wemher, Bart., have completed the 

 allocation of the £100,000 bequeathed to them 

 to be devoted to charitable and educational 

 purposes. £35,000 has been allotted to chari- 

 table and educational purposes in South 

 Africa, and £65,000 to some 150 different in- 

 stitutions in Great Britain. The grants for 



scientific and educational purposes include: 

 to the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 

 £5,000 ; the Imperial Service College, Windsor, 

 £2,500; the London School of Tropical Medi- 

 cine, £1,500. 



The school of medicine of the University of 

 Pittsburgh arranged a medical program in 

 connection with the commencement week ex- 

 ercises. Special clinics were arranged at the 

 hospitals afiiliated with the university, as well 

 as laboratory demonstrations at the medical 

 school building on the university campus. 



The Rush Medical College, Chicago, which 

 has for a number of years strongly recom- 

 mended a fifth clinical year as interne in a 

 hospital, or its equivalent, has made this com- 

 pulsory for the class entering in 1914. This 

 fifth year is to be spent either in graduate 

 work in one of the departments of the college 

 or as an interne in an approved hospital under 

 the constant supervision of the college faculty. 



A GREAT increase in the enrollment has 

 marked the progress of the college of agricul- 

 ture of the University of Illinois during the 

 past few years. In 1895-96 there was a total 

 enrollment of 14 students ; in 1900-01, 159 stu- 

 dents; in 1909-10, 660 students and in the 

 present year, 1912-13, there was a total num- 

 ber of 905. The college of agriculture is grad- 

 uating an ever-increasing number of men. 

 The larger percentage of these graduates are 

 now engaged in practical agriculture. This ia 

 shown by statistics being gathered at the pres- 

 ent time. Out of ninety-three men graduating 

 this year, forty-four expect to go into actual 

 farming operations; ten expect to enter ex- 

 perimental work at the University of Illinois; 

 ten to teach; eleven will do graduate work; 

 five are going to work for large implement 

 companies, and the rest will be employed in 

 work more or less connected with agriculture. 



Dr. L. H. Bailey has resigned the director- 

 ship of the New York State College of Agri- 

 culture, Cornell University. 



Dr. Paul G. Woolley, dean of the medical 

 department of the University of Cincinnati, 

 has resigned this office but retains his pro- 

 fessorship. 



