JANUARY 19, 1912] 
Tue trustees of Northwestern University 
‘have announced a gift of $8,000 from the 
estate of Mrs. Ellen Sage which is admin- 
istered by Mr. N. M. Jones, for the establish- 
ment of three scholarships: one in the College 
«ot Liberal Arts, one in the Medical School and 
one in the Law School, to be known as the 
‘Rufus H. Sage scholarships. 
Tur degree of bachelor of business admin- 
istration will hereafter be conferred on grad- 
suates of Northwestern University School of 
‘Commerce who have had two years’ regular 
college work and have spent two years in the 
‘School of Commerce. 
BrGINNING with September, 1914, the Schools 
‘of Mines, Engineering and Chemistry of Co- 
Tumbia University, which comprise the faculty 
of applied science, will be substantially grad- 
uate schools, a baccalaureate degree being re- 
quired for admission. But students will have 
the privilege of following a combined col- 
legiate and professional course in engineering 
as they now have in law, medicine and teach- 
ing. The strictly technical or professional 
course of study will be three years in length 
instead of four as at present. 
THE trustees of Teachers College, Columbia 
University, have created a School of Practical 
Arts, to comprise the present Schools of 
‘Household and Industrial Arts and the de- 
partments of fine arts, music and physical 
education. To this end there has been con- 
stituted a faculty of education, comprising the 
dean and the professors whose work is largely 
in education, who are to direct the School of 
‘Hidueation, and the faculty of practical arts, 
ancluding the professors of fine arts, music, 
thousehold arts, industrial arts and hygiene 
and physical training. To this latter faculty 
is entrusted the development of the new School 
of Practical Arts, which is to offer a new type 
of university education—a four-year course, 
comprising both academic and vocational 
courses. 
Tue technique of printing and publishing 
is the subject of a new course to be given in 
‘connection with the work in journalism at the 
University of Wisconsin, beginning in Feb- 
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ruary. The course will consist of practical 
talks and laboratory work on typographical 
composition, engraving processes, printing and 
similar topics. The study is intended pri- 
marily for students of engineering, agricul- 
ture, commerce, pharmacy, chemistry and 
other technical subjects, who desire to fa- 
miliarize themselves with methods of printing 
and publishing in order to contribute to or 
do editorial work on scientific, technical and 
trade publications. A course in technical and 
trade journalism, to include lectures and prac- 
tise in all the details of the work of the editor 
and the contributor on scientific, technical 
and trade publications, has also been arranged 
to be given next year. 
HERBERT SHAW PHILBRICK, assistant pro- 
fessor of mechanical engineering at the Uni- 
versity of Missouri, has been appointed pro- 
fessor of that subject in the College of Engi- 
neering of Northwestern University. 
Dr. H. E. Bucuanan has been appointed 
professor of mathematics at the University of 
Tennessee. 
Prorgssor GrorG Faper, of the Technical 
School at Stuttgart, has been called to a chair 
of mathematics at Koénigsberg. 
DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 
THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE WEEKS ACT 
To THE Eprror oF Science: In consideration 
of Professor Very’s letter in Sctence of Jan- 
uary 5, I wish only to bring to the attention 
of the readers of Science section 6 of the 
Weeks Act, which has been interpreted to re- 
quire an actual examination by the Geological 
Survey and a report based thereon which shall 
consist of a showing of facts rather than an 
expression of opinion. 
Section 6. That the Secretary of Agriculture 
is hereby authorized and directed to examine, 
locate and recommend for purchase such lands as 
in his judgment may be necessary to the regula- 
tion of the flow of navigable streams, and to re- 
port to the National Forest Reservation Commis- 
sion the results of such examinations: Provided, 
That before any lands are purchased by the Na- 
tional Forest Reservation Commission said lands 
