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5 ; (3) a resilient sensation given on 

 palpation somewhat resembling an elastic dis- 

 tended airball; (4) size, about that of a hazel 

 nut, a gland giving the idea of being some- 

 thing a little less than half an inch when 

 taken up in the ordinary way between thumb 

 and finger under the skin. In 1,327 palpations 

 the percentage of enlarged glands from 

 endemically-infected districts was found to be 

 62.4 per cent., as compared with 3,972 palpa- 

 tions, with a percentage of 39.2, where the 

 disease did not exist. This latter figure clearly 

 shows that enlarged glands must not always 

 be considered proof of sleeping sickness. The 

 letter from Mr. Williams to Dr. Neave indi- 

 cates that the disease is not so severe and 

 widespread in Katanga as was at first thought. 



TEE RESIGNATION OF PRESIDENT ELIOT 

 At a meeting of the president and fellows 

 of Harvard College, on October 26, President 

 Eliot presented the following letter: 



To THE PeESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HaBVAED 



College : 



Gentlemen: I hereby resign the office of presi- 

 dent of Harvard University, the resignation to 

 take effect at your convenience, but not later than 

 May 19th, 1909. 



The president's intimate association with the 

 otHer members of the corporation in common 

 service to the university is one of the most 

 precious privileges of his highly privileged office. 

 For this association with the fifteen friends who 

 are dead, and the seven who are living, I shall 

 always be profoundly grateful. 



Congratulating you on your labors and satis- 

 factions in the past, and on the sure prospect of 

 greater labors and satisfactions to come, I am, 

 with high respect, 



Your friend and servant, 



Chaeles W. Eliot 



10 October, 1908 



Whereupon it was 



Voted, That the president's resignation be re- 

 gretfully accepted, to take effect May 19, 1909. 



VNIVERSIT7 AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



The Iowa State College is just completing 

 a new hall of agriculture of white stone con- 

 struction, over two hundred feet in length, at 

 a cost of approximately three hundred thou- 

 sand dollars. 



The cornerstone of the new agricultural 

 hall of the University of Missouri was laid 

 recently. The building will cost $100,000. 

 Among the speakers were B. H. Bonfoeyn, of 

 Unionville, Mo., a curator of the university; 

 Norman J. Colman, commissioner of agricul- 

 ture under President Cleveland; Dr. B. T. 

 Galloway, an alumnus, now chief of the divi- 

 sion of vegetable pathology of the Department 

 of Agriculture; Dr. A. Eoss Hill, president of 

 the university ; Dr. R. H. Jesse, late president, 

 and Henry J. Waters, dean of the college of 

 agriculture. 



The University of Kansas has completed the 

 equipment of a special laboratory for water 

 analysis in connection with the state water 

 survey. Special problems of public water 

 supply, sewage and industrial waste will be 

 taken up this winter. The work for the U. S. 

 Geological Survey in analyzing the waters of 

 rivers and streams in the state has been com- 

 pleted. 



With the organization of the department of 

 mining engineering in charge of Professor E. 

 C. Holden, a graduate of the Columbia School 

 of Mines and a practical mining engineer, the 

 college of engineering of the University of 

 Wisconsin is giving this fall for the first time 

 a complete course in the practical details of 

 mining. During the first semester the stu- 

 dents are given work in excavation, explosives, 

 blasting and tunneling, which will be followed 

 by other courses in boring and shaft sinking. 

 In the second semester the subjects of prospect- 

 ing, the development and the exploitation of 

 mines will be studied, and the students from 

 the senior class will be given additional courses 

 in the design of haulage, hoisting, pumping 

 and ventilating systems for mining plants. 

 Plans are now being made for the further 

 equipment of the department with machines 

 and apparatus for demonstration and labora- 

 tory work. The main portion of the equip- 

 ment will be centered in an ore dressing labo- 

 ratory, which will probably occupy the build- 

 ing formerly occupied by the university heat- 

 ing plant. Some small additions of machinery 

 have already been secured, and it is expected 



