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A,M., assistant professor of mathematics. 

 Professor Butterfield is a graduate of the class 

 of 1893, and was formerly instructor in civil 

 engineering at the institute. For the past 

 ten years he has been professor of mathe- 

 matics at the University of Vermont. A 

 number of appointments have also been made 

 to the corps of instructors as follows : Eobert 

 H. Goddard, B.S., W.P.I., '08, instructor in 

 physics; John F. Mangold, B.S., Cornell, 

 Iowa, 'OY, instructor in civil engineering; 

 Dr. W. F. Holman, University of Nebraska 

 and University of Gottingen, instructor in 

 physics; James A. Bullard, A,B., Williams, 

 '08, instructor in mathematics; Eoyal W. 

 Davenport, B.S., W.?.!., '08, instructor in 

 civil engineering; Charles J. Adams, A.B., 

 Amherst, '96, instructor in modern languages ; 

 J. Howard Eedfield, A.B., Haverford, '99, and 

 B.S. M.I.T., '02, instructor in mathematics; 

 Albert A. Nims, B.S., W.P.I., '08, graduate 

 assistant in electrical engineering; John C. 

 Harvey, B.S., W.P.I., '08, Alden W. Baldwin, 

 B.S., "W.P.I., '08, and Pvichmond W. Smith, 

 B.S., W.P.I., '08, graduate assistants in me- 

 chanical engineering. 



H. J. Eustace has been appointed professor 

 of horticulture in the Michigan Agricultural 

 College and horticulturist of the experiment 

 station. He graduated at the Michigan 

 Agricultural College in 1901 and for five years 

 was assistant botanist at the New York. Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station at Geneva, N. 

 T., and for the past two years has been con- 

 ' nected with the Fruit Storage and Trans- 

 portation Investigations of the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture. 



Victor T. Wilson, instructor in drawing, 

 Cornell University, 1893 to 1903, professor of 

 engineering drawing. State College (Pennsyl- 

 vania), 1907-8, has been elected professor of 

 drawing and design in the Michigan Agricul- 

 tural College. 



The following are the new appointments 

 in the science departments of the University 

 of Maine: L. H. Merrill, Sc.D., professor of 

 biological and agricultural chemistry; F. L. 

 Russell, B.S., V.S., professor of bacteriology 



and veterinary science; Wallace Craig, Ph.D., 

 professor of philosophy; L. E. Woodman, 

 M.A., assistant professor of physics ; V. R. 

 Gardner, M.S., assistant professor of horti- 

 culture; W. A. Brown, B.S. A., assistant pro- 

 fessor of animal industry ; C. E. Levtds, Ph.D., 

 associate vegetable pathologist; M. E. Curtis, 

 M.A., assistant in biology; H. N. Conser, 

 M.S., instructor in botany; E. M. Wallace, 

 B.A., instructor in biology; J. L. Coon, Ph.B., 

 tutor in physics; E. A. Garlock, B.S., tutor in 

 physics; J. P. Farnsworth, B.S., tutor in 

 drawing; R. E. Steward, B.S., tutor in civil 

 engineering; A. G. Durgin, B.S., assistant in 

 chemistry. 



QUOTATIONS 



AN EDUCATIONAL PARADOX 



A European would be put to his wit's ends 

 by the recent Chicago dispatch announcing 

 that a professor of philosophy is about to ex- 

 change his university chair for one in a 

 theological seminary in order to enjoy greater 

 academic freedom. " America is more topsy- 

 turvy than China ! " the bewildered foreigner 

 might ejaculate. " A university is the very 

 citadel of intellectual liberty; a theological 

 school, dogma's safest stronghold." Refer- 

 ence to catalogues would not clear his mind. 

 The university in question declares that it 

 " was not established with a view of forcing 

 on the attention of students the creed of any 

 particular church, but for the promotion of 

 learning under influences conducive to the 

 formation of manly Christian character." 

 Its charter " carefully provides that no par- 

 ticular religious faith shall be required of 

 those who become students at the institution." 

 Surely, then, if students are not to be re- 

 minded of any doctrine, their instructors can 

 not be expected to insinuate one into their 

 professional utterances. In the seminary, on 

 the other hand, teachers and learners are sup- 

 posed to accept at least the broader Christian 

 dogmas and to center their studies about 

 these. Can the European, noting such facts 

 at long range, be blamed for distrusting the 

 whole story? The paradox may well confuse 

 even our own countrymen who have not been 



