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Mr. Carvin W. Ricz, secretary of the Amer- 
ican Society of Mechanical Engineers, was 
the guest of the student branch of the so- 
ciety in the College of Engineering of the 
University of Illinois on January 23 and 24. 
In an address before the members of the so- 
ciety, Mr. Rice emphasized the importance of 
every engineer being interested in the na- 
tional engineering societies. Mr. Rice was 
entertained by the local members of the so- 
ciety at a dinner at the University Club in 
the evening of the 23d. 
Proressor E. H. S. Baitey, director of the 
chemical laboratories in the University of 
Kansas, has been granted a leave of absence 
for the remainder of the school year 1911-12, 
and will leave immediately for Europe, where 
he will make a study of foods, investigating 
market conditions and food supplies. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 
Girts, aggregating $81,291, have been an- 
nounced by the trustees of Columbia Univer- 
sity including $30,000 from Dr. William H. 
Nichols for instruction and research labora- 
tories in chemistry; $25,000 from Mrs. Russell 
Sage, for the E. G. Janeway Library endow- 
ment fund at the medical school; $15,000 
from W. Bayard Cutting, to establish the 
William Bayard Cutting, Jr., fellowship in 
international law, and $10,000 from Augustus 
Schermerhorn, to be expended for the current 
needs of the university. Dr. Theodore C. 
Janeway has given to the trustees the medical 
library left to him by his father, Dr. Edward 
G. Janeway. 
Tue completion of the half million endow- 
ment fund for Oberlin College has made pos- 
sible the following additions to the college re- 
sources: the men’s building, $150,000; a new 
administration building, $50,000; the com- 
pletion of the men’s gymnasium, $30,000; a 
part. payment on Keep Cottage, the new wo- 
men’s dormitory, of $10,000; for higher sal- 
aries, $200,000, and other endowments, $60,- 
000; thus making a total of $240,000 for 
buildings and $260,000 for salaries and other 
endowments. Among the donors were the fol- 
lowing: anonymous, $200,000; a friend, $50,- 
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000; Dr. L. C. Warner, of New York City, 
$40,000; Mr. and Mrs. G. N. Clark, of Evans- 
ton, Ill., $10,000; Charles M. Hall, of Niagara ~ 
Falls, N. Y., $10,000; an eastern friend, $12,- 
000; Mrs. D. Willis James, of New York 
City, $10,000. 
TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY has announced 
that the effort to raise a fund of $250,000 has 
been successfully completed. The largest gifts 
aside from $50,000 offered by the General Edu- 
eation Board in May, 1910, were as follows: 
$30,000 from R. A. Long, of Kansas City; 
three gifts of $15,000 each from W. P. 
Bowers, of Muncie, Ind., Geo. H. Waters, of 
Pomona, Calif., and J. J. Atkins, of Elkton, 
Ky.; $9,000 from M. F. Pearce, of Covington, 
Ky., and four gifts of $5,000 each. The re- 
mainder of the fund was provided in many 
smaller amounts. 
Contracts have been let for the erection 
of a new laboratory of mining engineering 
and a new ceramics building at the Univer- 
sity of Illinois. Two other buildings, the 
commercial and the woman’s building, are 
being constructed and plans are nearly com- 
pleted for a new armory, stock pavilion and 
transportation building. 
At a recent meeting of the court of the 
Goldsmiths’ Company the following grants 
were made to the senate of the University of 
London: For the building fund of King’s Col- 
lege for Women, £10,000; for the endowment 
fund of Bedford College for Women. £5,000; 
for the building and equipment fund of the 
chemical department of University College, 
Gower Street, £1,000. The company has also 
made a grant of £1,000 to the National Phys- 
ical Laboratory at Teddington for the equip- 
ment of the metallurgical department at that 
institution. 
Dr. Ropert Davies Roperts, secretary of the 
Congress of the Universities of the Empire 
and chairman of the executive committee of 
the University of Wales, who died on Novem- 
ber 14, aged 60, left an ultimate residue leg- 
acy to the University College of Wales at 
Aberystwith, to form the nucleus of a fund 
“to enable professors after a certain number 
