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forty years with eminent skill and fidelity. Its 

 vast development during his term of service has 

 been mainly due to his rare wisdom, his strong 

 convictions, his enterprise and his zeal. Prompt 

 to initiate reforms and fearless yet prudent in 

 pressing them, he has by his constructive energy 

 transformed Harvard College into a great univer- 

 sity, and at the same time has exerted an influ- 

 ence on the educational forces of the nation which 

 has largely shaped their policy, so that he stands 

 to-day the leader in his age and generation. 



Nor does Harvard alone attest his greatness. 

 His mental precision and unusual capacity for 

 lucid and apt discrimination have enabled him to 

 treat public questions with singular authority and 

 with an unerring instinct for the aspirations and 

 needs of society. He has touched no subject with- 

 out illuminating it; he has stood firmly for col- 

 legiate and civic righteousness; and so sane have 

 been his counsels, so masterly his power of state- 

 ment, that he not only commands to-day the atten- 

 tion of America, but he is honored by scholars and 

 thinkers throughout the world. He has set an 

 example to all by the simplicity of his life and by 

 his absolute devotion to duty and the public in- 

 terest. He lays down the cares of office volun- 

 tarily at the ripe age of seventy-five while " his 

 eye is not dimmed nor his natural force abated." 

 Indeed his temperament has mellowed with time, 

 and he has grown young with the passing years. 



This board, to every member of which associa- 

 tion with him has been a privilege, congratulates 

 him warmly on his long and distinguished service, 

 and expresses the sincere hope that blessed with 

 health he may enjoy for years to come the rest 

 which he has richly earned and the honor freely 

 accorded to him by a grateful community. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 In a special report to President Schurman, 

 Director V. A. Moore, of the New York State 

 Veterinary College, asks the board of trustees 

 of Cornell University to petition the New 

 York State Legislature for appropriations 

 amounting to $.375,000 for improvements and 

 additions to the Veterinary College. The fol- 

 lowing are the appropriations asked for in 

 detail: (1) For maintenance for the college 

 year 1909-10, $40,000, an increase of $10,000 

 over the present appropriation. The main- 

 tenance of this college as a teaching institu- 

 tion will soon require at least $50,000 per 



annum. (2) For research, experimental work 

 and extension work, $10,000. This should be 

 raised, as the work becomes organized, to 

 $25,000. (3) For clinical buildings and equip- 

 ment, $125,000. (4) For farriery, horse- 

 shoeing laboratory, stable for team and 

 wagons, and fence, $50,000. (5) For the com- 

 pletion of the wing at the north end and the 

 erection of the one at the south end of the 

 main building, as originally planned, $150,000. 



There are this year 403 students in the 

 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Har- 

 vard University, distributed according to the 

 divisions and departments under which their 

 studies chiefly lie, as follows : Semitic, none ; 

 ancient languages, 26 (indie philology, none; 

 classics, 26) ; modem languages, 121 (English, 

 80; German, 10; romance, 17; comparative, 

 literature, 6 ; Scandinavian, 1 ; mixed, 7) ; his- 

 tory and political science, 75 (history and gov- 

 ernment, 46; political economy, 27; evenly 

 divided, 2) ; philosophy, 48 (social ethics, 2) 

 education, 10; fine arts, 6 (history and prin- 

 ciples of the fine arts, 3 ; architecture, 3) 

 music, 3 ; mathematics, 23 ; physics, 18 ; chem- 

 istry, 34; engineering, 1; biology, 18 (botany, 

 7 ; zoology, 11) ; geology, 6 (geology and geog- 

 raphy, 4; mineralogy and petrography, 2) 

 mining and metallurgy, 1 ; anthropology, 3. 

 There are three students of the medical -sci- 

 ences and one of comparative philology, and 

 four whose studies are miscellaneous. 



Dr. C. a. Waldo, professor in Purdue Uni- 

 versity, has accepted the chair of mathematics 

 at Washington University, St. Louis. 



At Hobart College on the William Smith 

 foundation, Mr. E. H. Eaton has been ap- 

 pointed professor of biology and Mr. F. P. 

 Boswell assistant professor of psychology and 

 mathematics. Mr. Ernest W. Dean has been 

 appointed professor in chemistry. 



The Medieo-Chirurgical College of Phila- 

 delphia has established a department of 

 pharmaceutic chemistry, of which Dr. George 

 H. Meeker is the dean. Besides the professors 

 and instructors drawn from the other faculties 

 of the college, there have been added to the 

 teaching force Professor F. A. Genth, as pro- 

 fessor of mineralogy and assaying, and- Pro- 



