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has been promoted to be lecturer in histology 

 and embryology, and Dr. Eoger G. Perkins, 

 assistant professor of pathology and bacteri- 

 ology to be associate professor of pathology 

 and hygiene. 



Mr. Charles H. Danfoeth, who has been 

 engaged in comparative anatomical investiga- 

 tion at Tufts College, has been appointed in- 

 structor in anatomy in the Medical Depart- 

 ment of Washington University. 



At Northveestem University David E. 

 Whitney, Ph.D., Columbia, has been appointed 

 assistant in biology, and J. W. Turrentine 

 assistant in chemistry. 



At Williams College, Mr. Charles Packard 

 has been appointed instructor in biology; Mr. 

 E. S. Corein assistant in geology; and Mr. L. 

 B. Mears assistant in chemistry. 



At Amherst College, Mr. Gordon Pulcher 

 has been appointed instructor in physics; Mr. 

 Charles W. Cobb, instructor in mathematics, 

 and Mr. Arthur L. Kimball, Jr., assistant in 



Edward E. Wildman, M.S. (Pennsylvania, 

 1908), has resigned a fellowship in biology at 

 Princeton on account of his election to a pro- 

 fessorship in biology at the Central High 

 School, Philadelphia. 



Mr. p. L. Gainey, a recent graduate of the 

 North Carolina College of Agricultural and 

 Mechanical Arts, has been appointed assistant 

 in botany in that institution. 



Dr. Jesse H. White, Ph.D. (Clark), has 

 charge of the work in psychology and educa- 

 tion in Pittsburgh University, during the 

 absence of Professor Edmund B. Huey, who 

 is spending the year in Paris. 



Professor M. Stuart Maodonald, of the 

 University of Fredericton, N. B., has been in- 

 vited to give assistance to the department of 

 philosophy until the board fills the vacancy 

 made by the resignation of Professor Taylor. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



THE ADMINISTRATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF 

 ILLINOIS 



The abominable state of affairs which 

 exists at some of our universities in America 



could not last long if the true conditions 

 were known outside. The faculties are power- 

 less to correct them, for the very places where 

 reform is most needed are the ones in which 

 the professor is so shorn of his power as to be 

 practically helpless. If public opinion is once 

 aroused on the seriousness of this question, it 

 will not take long to remedy the evil. 



Those who are interested in the movement 

 for putting our American universities on a 

 true university basis will find some valuable 

 material in the contents of this article. 



I agree with the editorial in the Popular 

 Science Monthly, for July, 1908, that Dean 

 Kent did a public service when he exposed the 

 administration of Chancellor Day at Syra- 

 cuse University. I have heard that this is 

 already producing a better atmosphere at 

 Syracuse — as one might have expected. 



Por the same reasons I propose to give an 

 account of a case at the University of Ulinois, 

 and in doing so I have no apology to make to 

 any one; least of all to my fellow citizens of 

 the state or to the alumni of the university. 

 They are the ones who are most interested, 

 and I believe that the vast majority of them 

 will see at once that they will be benefited. 



I am trying to clean up a condition which 

 could not exist in the light, and which will 

 spread its poison if allowed to persist in the 

 dark. The university is too strong, the 

 alumni too loyal, and the state, as a whole, 

 too intelligent to allow the recuirence of such 

 acts as have recently been perpetrated by the 

 president of the university, supported, in part 

 at least, by the governor of the state. 



Those who are interested in academic free- 

 dom will be edified in seeing how the presi- 

 dent of an American university handled a 

 professor's case when he appealed it to the su- 

 preme court of the university — that is, the 

 trustees. 



Without going into the details of the case 

 appealed, I will simply say that when Presi- 

 dent James came to the University of Ulinois, 

 I had completed sev^ years as full professor 

 and head of the department of physiology. 

 During this entire time I had had no friction 

 with the former president, nor with any one 

 else. 



