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are picturesque features of the campus. The 
arts building is 257 feet long, with wings 85 
feet long. It has four stories. The esti- 
mated cost of the building and furnishings is 
$225,000. The dormitory, which is virtually 
five separate dormitories, contains a large 
celubroom for men students, a dining-hall and 
rooms and baths for 125 students. The cost 
of this building, exclusive of furnishings, is 
$140,000. 
THE plan of George M. Pullman for the 
establishment of a manual training school 
at Pullman, Tll., is assuming definite form. 
Professor L. G. Weld, formerly professor of 
mathematics and dean of the University of 
Iowa, has been despatched on a tour of 
America and Europe to collect data to guide 
the board of trustees in the construction of 
the buildings and the arrangement of the cur- 
yiculum. Building operations, it is expected, 
will be commenced next year. A site of forty 
acres has been purchased at a cost of $100,000. 
A fund of $1,000,000 was bequeathed by Mr. 
Pullman at his death on October 18, 1897, for 
founding the institution. This fund was in- 
vested in securities which have increased in 
value until now there is about $2,500,000 at 
the disposal of the directors for the school. 
Tue University of California announces the 
establishment by Mr. F. M. Smith, of Oak- 
land, California, of a research fellowship for 
investigation of certain problems incident to 
the growth of cities in the San Francisco Bay 
region. Attention is to be directed especially 
to questions relating to the development of 
parks, playgrounds and other community in- 
terests demanding particular consideration of 
space available for growth. The stipend of 
the fellowship is $1,000 per annum, and an 
additional sum of $500 annually is provided 
for expenses of the investigation. The work 
of the fellow will be conducted under the 
supervision of a special committee named for 
this purpose, and the results worthy of record 
are to be prepared for publication. 
$12,500 was recently turned over to the au- 
thorities of the Colorado School of Mines for 
the equipment of the new ore testing plant. 
The building for the plant was built a year 
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ago and $50,000 was allowed by the legisla- 
ture for the necessary machinery and one 
fourth of this is what is now available. Many 
donations of machinery have been made by 
the various manufacturers and it will now be 
possible to completely equip, ready for opera- 
tion, the concentration section of the plant. 
Dr. J. B. Hurry has established a research 
studentship of physiology at Cambridge to be 
named in honor of Michael Foster. 
We learn from the Bulletin of the Ameri- 
can Mathematical Society that Dr. G. 
Schirmer, a Chicago physician, has estab- 
lished at the University of Erlangen, a prize 
fund, to be known as the Helene Ottilie 
Schirmer foundation, in honor of his late 
wife. The income, $150, is to be given to the 
author of the most meritorious thesis pre- 
pared at the university during a period of two 
years preceding each award; the subjects are 
to be in mathematics or physics in odd years, 
and in medicine in even years. The first 
award has recently been made to Dr. R. 
Baldus for his dissertation on certain line 
congruences. 
Two new departments are to be established 
at Swarthmore College next year, one in po- 
litical science, and the other in psychology 
and education. Dr. Robert C. Brooks, at 
present professor of political science at the 
University of Cincinnati, is to head the po- 
litical science department, and Dr. Bird T. 
Baldwin, now professor of education at the 
University of Texas, will have charge of the 
work in psychology and education. 
Dr. O. N. Jensen, fellow in plant pathology, 
Cornell University, has been appointed pro- 
fessor of botany and plant pathology in Utah 
Agricultural College and Experiment Station 
and entered on his duties on February 1. 
Dr. Exveanor H. Rowand, professor of phi- 
losophy at Mt. Holyoke College, has resigned 
to become dean of women and professor of 
philosophy at Reed College, Portland, Ore., 
but does not enter upon her new duties until 
next September. She will spend the next sem- 
ester in Orete, engaged upon research work. 
Dr. Kate Gordon takes Dr. Rowland’s place 
during the second semester. 
