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Sloane; Vice-presidents, Henry Van Dyke, 

 John W. Alexander, Arthur Whiting, Brander 

 Matthews, and Hamlin Garland; Treasurer, 

 Hamilton W. Mabie, and Secretary, E. W. 

 Johnson. 



Dr. Walter B. Pillsbury, director of the 

 psychological laboratory. University of Mich- 

 igan, and non-resident lecturer in psychology, 

 Columbia University, will give a course of 

 eight lectures on " The Psychology of Reason- 

 ing," in Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia Uni- 

 versity, at 4:10 P.M., on the days and on the 

 subjects which follow : 



Tuesday, January 19 — " Logic and Psychology." 



Wednesday, January 20 — " Belief." 



Friday, January 22 — " Meaning and the Con- 

 cept." 



Tuesday, January 26 — " The Psychology of 

 Judgment." 



Wednesday, January 27 — " Judgment and Lan- 



Friday, January 29 — " Inference, the Syllogism." 

 Tuesday, February 2 — " Universal and Particu- 

 lar Conclusions." 



Wednesday, February 3 — " Induction and De- 

 duction, Analogy." 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Mr. John D. Eockefeller has made a 

 further gift of a million dollars to the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago. His gifts to the univer- 

 sity now amount to more than $25,000,000. 



At the last meeting of the Board of Direc- 

 tors of Bryn Mawr College a gift of $100,000 

 was presented to the Board by the Alumnas 

 Association of the College, the first instal- 

 ment of the sum of $1,000,000 which the 

 alumnse have undertaken to try to raise for 

 the additional endowment of the college. The 

 alumnse have made it a condition of their gift 

 that the money shall be used for academic 

 salaries and they have endowed the chair of 

 mathematics with this first $100,000 and stip- 

 ulated that the money released by freeing the 

 college from maintaining this professorship 

 shall be used in raising the salary of each 

 full professor in the college. Professor Char- 

 lotte Angas Scott has held since the opening 

 of the college the chair of mathematics, which 

 the alumnae have endowed. 



The legislative board of visitors of the Uni- 

 versity of Missouri in its report to the gov- 

 ernor of the needs of the university, recom- 

 mended that the legislature appropriate $4Y5,- 

 000 for new buildings. Of this amount, the 

 board recommended that $250,000 be spent for 

 a fireproof library building, $100,000 for a 

 physics building, $75,000 for a chemistry 

 building and $50,000 for a women's gym- 

 nasium. 



At Central University, Danville, Kentucky, 

 Young Memorial Hall was dedicated on Fri- 

 day, January 8. The speakers for the oc- 

 casion were Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, president 

 of the Carnegie Poundation for the Advance- 

 ment of Teaching, Dr. Willis G. Craig, of 

 Chicago, and Dr. J. M. Blayney, who spoke on 

 behalf of the trustees of the university. 

 Young Hall is a well constructed building, 

 one hundred and twenty-two by seventy-six 

 feet, made of buff brick and trimmed in light 

 sandstone. The first floor and a portion of 

 the basement will be occupied by the depart- 

 ment of physics under the direction of Pro- 

 fessor Clarence McChayne Gordon, Ph.D. 

 (Gottingen) ; the second floor will be devoted 

 to the work in chemistry, with Friend E. 

 Clark, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), in charge. 



A FOURTH report upon The High School 

 Course in Botany adopted by the College En- 

 trance Examination Board as a basis for its 

 examinations, giving the course in full with 

 certain explanatory matter, has recently been 

 printed by a committee of the Botanical So- 

 ciety of America. A copy thereof will be 

 sent to any one especially interested in this 

 matter upon application to the chairman of 

 the committee. Professor W. F. Ganong, 

 Smith College, Northampton, Mass. 



The newspapers state that President Ben- 

 jamin Ide Wheeler, of the University of Cali- 

 fornia, has declined the presidency of the 

 University of Michigan. 



Dr. E. a. Noble will be installed as presi- 

 dent of the Woman's College of Baltimore on 

 February 2. 



Professor George F. Swain, professor of 

 civil engineering at the Massachusetts Insti- 



