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announced. The endowment has now reached 
$815,000 toward the desired million dollars. 
APPROPRIATION bills for the College of Agri- 
culture, Cornell University, to the amount of 
$907,000, of which $788,000 is immediately 
available, were passed by the New York legis- 
lature at its recent session and signed by 
Governor Dix. The Veterinary College re- 
ceived an appropriation of $105,000, bringing 
the total up to $1,012,000. Of the appropria- 
tion $329,000 is for the erection of new 
buildings for the use of the departments of 
forestry, agronomy and animal husbandry; 
$129,000 of this amount is not immediately 
available. There was reappropriated $182,000 
for the completion of work already under way; 
$265,000 for the current expenses of the col- 
lege, and $141,000 in what is known as the 
supply bill. 
Tue Johns Hopkins School of Technology 
will be opened next fall, offering instruction 
in three branches, mechanical and electrical 
engineering and applied chemistry. A com- 
mittee headed by Mr. R. Brent Keyser, presi- 
dent of the board of trustees, Dr. J. S. Ames, 
director of the physical laboratory, and Dr. 
William B. Clark, professor of geology, has 
made a trip to the educational centers of the 
morth, where they consulted with a number 
of educators on plans for organizing the insti- 
tion. 
Dr. JouHN Grizr Hispen, hitherto Stuart 
protessor of logic, was installed as president 
of Princeton University on May 11. There 
were present President Taft, Chief Justice 
White and delegates from one hundred and 
seventy-one educational institutions. The 
oath of office was administered by Justice 
Pitney, and President Hibben made an in- 
augural address on the essentials of a liberal 
education. Degrees were conferred on Presi- 
dent Taft and Chief Justice White. At the 
luncheon speeches were made by them and by 
ex-President Patton, of Princeton; President 
Lowell, of Harvard; President Hadley, of 
Yale; President Butler, of Columbia, and 
President Schurman, of Cornell. 
Dr. Davin L. Epsatu has been elected to the 
Jackson professorship of clinical medicine in 
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the Harvard Medical School to fill the va- 
cancy made by the resignation of Dr. Fred- 
erick C. Shattuck, under the retiring rules of 
the Massachusetts General Hospital. At the 
same time Dr. Edsall has been appointed to 
one of the two permanent medical services at 
that hospital. He is a graduate of Princeton 
and of the University of Pennsylvania Med- 
ical School. He was professor in that school 
until 1910, and since in the Medical School of 
Washington University, St. Louis. ~ 
THE trustees of Cornell University have 
made appointments and promotions as fol- 
lows: C. G. Woodbury, professor of pomology; 
Hugh Charles Troy, professor of dairy indus- 
try. The following assistant professors were 
promoted to the rank of professor: J. A. Biz- 
zell, in soil technology; W. A. Riley, in ento- 
mology; G. W. Herrick, in entomology; H. 
W. Riley, in farm mechanics, and H. E. Ross, 
in dairy industry. The following instructors 
were promoted to the rank of assistant pro- 
fessor: L. J. Cross, in agricultural chemistry; 
Robert Matheson, in entomology; George OC. 
Embody, in entomology; Arthur L. Thomp- 
son, in farm management, and Ralph H. 
Wheeler, in extension teaching. Albert Ed- 
ward Wells, superintendent of shops of Sibley 
College, was appointed assistant professor of 
machine design. 
JOHN Hartanp Ketson, head of the depart- 
ment of applied mechanics at Case School of 
Applied Science, Cleveland, Ohio, has been 
elected professor of applied mechanics at the 
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, succeeding 
the late Professor E. B. Hancock. 
TueERE have been appointed in the School 
of Journalism of Columbia University, Dr. E. 
E. Slossen, of the editorial staff of The Inde- 
pendent, formerly professor of chemistry in 
the University of Wyoming, as associate, and 
Dr. Walter B. Pitkin, of the department of 
philosophy of the university, as associate 
professor. 
At the University of Wisconsin, Dr. James 
B. Overton has been promoted from assistant 
professor of botany to associate professor of 
plant physiology, and Mr. Gilbert M. Smith 
