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propriation of $39,000 for rent, metal shelving, 

 additional furniture, and removal of tlie 

 Bureau to new quarters, did not receive the 

 favorable consideration of Congress. 



The appropriation for the education of the 

 natives of Alaska remains the same as for the 

 present year, $200,000. The appropriation 

 for reindeer in Alaska was reduced, on the 

 recommendation of the Oommissioner of Edu- 

 cation, from $15,000 to $12,000. Provision 

 was made by Congress for the designation of 

 employees of the Alaska School service as 

 special peace officers to assist in the enforce- 

 ment of law in Alaska. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDVOATIONAL NEWS 



Gifts amounting to $176,960 from Mr. John 

 D. Rockefeller to the University of Chicago 

 were announced on March 16 by President 

 Judson at the recent convocation. The larger 

 part is for the College of Education. 



The New York Evening Post states that 

 the University of Missouri will receive $500,- 

 000, for the assistance of needy students, by 

 the will of Charles E. Gregory, of St. Louis, 

 who recently died in Paris. 



The Weyerhauser interests of St. Paul have 

 given to the University of Minnesota 2,200 

 acres of land in Carlton County for the use 

 of experiments by the forestry department. 



In accordance with the terms of the will 

 of the late Dr. Julian Hunter that the name 

 of his father — Joseph Hunter — should be per- 

 petuated in connection with his bequest to 

 Sheffield University, the council has resolved 

 to call the chair of pathology in the univer- 

 sity the " Joseph Hunter Chair of Pathology." 

 It is proposed with the Hunter bequest 

 (amounting to £15,000) to establish a chair 

 of economics and to carry on the department 

 of philosophy and logic under a lecturer. 



The Goldsmiths' Company will renew for 

 a further period of three years their annual 

 grant of £5,000 towards the maintenance of 

 Goldsmiths' College, New-cross. 



Mr. E. 0. Ejng, a former graduate of the 

 faculty of applied' science and a demonstrator 

 in physics at McGill University, has estab- 



lished a fellowship in physics of the value of 

 $600. 



Efforts are being made to collect $500,000 

 to establish a medical school at Pekin. 



It is reported in the daily papers that 

 thirteen college presidents, whose institutions 

 are among those classed as denominational, 

 have presented a memorial to Dr. Henry S. 

 Pritchett, president of the Carnegie Founda- 

 tion. The memorial urges thst many colleges 

 which were founded by religious bodies are 

 to-day free to men of all creeds and do not 

 teach particular dogmas or require any par- 

 ticular beliefs by students or professors. They 

 are, therefore, it is declared, practically non- 

 sectarian. 



Mr. George E. Parkin has sent a letter to 

 members of the American Committees of se- 

 lection for the Ehodes Scholarships at Oxford, 

 stating that the trustees of the trust have de- 

 cided that any candidate from the United 

 States who has passed the qualifying examina- 

 tion in Latin and mathematics' shall be 

 eligible, even though he may not have passed 

 in Greek. He will, however, be required to 

 pass the examination in Greek before going 

 into residence or at all events before receiving 

 a degree. 



The American Ethical Union will hold its 

 summer school at the University of Wiscon- 

 sin from June 28 to July 24, under the direc- 

 tion of Dr. Felix Adler, of Columbia Univer- 

 sity. 



The inauguration of Professor A. Lawrence 

 Lowell as president of Harvard University, 

 will occur some time in October; the exact 

 date has not been set. 



The president's European fellowship of 

 Bryn Mawr College has been awarded to Miss 

 Grace Potter Eeynolds, B.A. (Smith), M.A. 

 (Columbia) and formerly assistant in chem- 

 istry at Barnard College, Columbia University. 



At the School of Pharmacy of Western 

 Eeserve University, Professor W. H. Haake 

 has resigned as professor of materia mediea 

 and is succeeded by Dr. Torald SoUmann. 



Dr. David Eraser Harris has been ap- 

 pointed lecturer in physiology at Birmingham 

 University to succeed Dr. Ehodes. 



