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nual appropriation for the College of the 

 City of New York by the sum of $40,000. 



At the Carnegie Technical Schools, Pitts- 

 burg, two new buildings in the group for the 

 School of Applied Science have just been 

 erected, and will be ready for occupancy in 

 October. They double the facilities for in- 

 struction in this department of the institution, 

 giving 150,000 additional square feet of floor 

 space. The construction is absolutely fire- 

 proof throughout, and the laboratory and 

 class-room equipment is of the most modern 

 type. John H. Leete, A.B., becomes dean of 

 the school. New appointments to the faculty 

 include Norman C. Eiggs, M.S., assistant pro- 

 fessor of mathematics; F. P. Colette, B.L., 

 assistant professor of modern languages; P. 

 W. Witherell, S.E., instructor in sanitary en- 

 gineering, and John A. Schaeffer, Ph.D., as- 

 sistant instructor in chemistry. 



Dr. Charles H. Judd, professor of psychol- 

 ogy at Yale University, has been elected dean 

 of the school of education and head professor 

 of the department of education at the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, the appointment to take effect 

 at the close of the present academic year. 



Dr. Fletcher Bascom Dressler, associate 

 professor of education in the University of 

 California, has been appointed to the chair of 

 philosophy and education in the University of 

 Alabama, vacant by the removal of Professor 

 Edward Franklin Buchner to the Johns Hop- 

 kins University. 



Dr. G. a Tawney, of the University of 

 Illinois, has been elected professor of philos- 

 ophy in the University of Cincinnati, to suc- 

 ceed Professor H. Heath Bawden. 



Dr. Paul G. Wooley, who for the last five 

 years has been director of the Siamese Gov- 

 ernment Serum Laboratory in Phrapatoom 

 and chief inspector of health and medical 

 adviser to the minister of the interior, has 

 accepted the position of associate professor of 

 clinical pathology in the University of Ne- 

 braska College of Medicine, Omaha. 



At Northwestern University, Dr. George E. 

 Mansfield, of Harvard University, has been 

 appointed assistant professor of geology, to 



succeed Professor J. W. Goldthwait, who goes 

 to Dartmouth College. Professor Mansfield 

 will begin work in February, 1909. Mr. C. E. 

 Decker has been appointed instructor in geol- 

 ogy at Northwestern University for the fixst 

 half of the present year. Mr. D. F. Higgins, 

 Jr., has been appointed to an assistantship, 

 and Professor J. H. Cline, of Bridgewater 

 College, Virginia, to a fellowship in the same 

 department. 



In the department of geology of the Uni- 

 versity of Oklahoma, Dr. Chas. N. Gould, 

 while still being retained as head of the de- 

 partment, has relinquished his work of teach- 

 ing and is devoting his time to the new 

 Oklahoma Geological Survey, of which he is 

 the director. Dr. D. W. Ohern, until recently 

 associate professor of geology at Bryn Mawr 

 College, has taken up Dr. Gould's work in the 

 university, and is being assisted by Mr. Pierce 

 Larkin. Mr. Chester A. Eeeds has resigned 

 his position as associate professor in the de- 

 partment, having been elected to a position in 

 the department of geology in the University 

 of Cincinnati. 



The following appointments have been 

 made in the school of civil engineering, Pur- 

 due University: instructor in structural engi- 

 neering, Mr. W. A. Knapp, graduate of the 

 University of Illinois, class of 1907 ; instructor 

 in hydraulic engineering, Mr. E. B. Wiley, 

 graduate of the University of Michigan, class 

 of 1906; assistant in surveying, Mr. J. H. 

 Lowry, Purdue 1908; assistant in railway en- 

 gineering, Mr. N. A. Lago, Purdue 1906. 



The following appointments and changes 

 are announced for the Worcester Polytechnic 

 Institute for the ensuing year : Professor John 

 E. Sinclair, who has held the position of pro- 

 fessor of mathematics for thirty-nine years, 

 retires on the Carnegie pension. Professor 

 Levi L. Conant becomes the head of the de- 

 partment of mathematics on the retirement 

 of Professor Sinclair. Two new appoint- 

 ments to the faculty have been made : Carleton 

 A. Head, M.E., professor of steam engineer- 

 ing, who comes to the institute from the New 

 Hampshire College of Agriculture and Me- 

 chanic Arts, and Arthur D. Butterfield, B.S., 



