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an address on behalf of the alumni by Mr. 
Donald R. Richberg, ’01; a poem by Professor 
Edwin H. Lewis, Ph.D., ’94; an address by 
Henry E. Legler, librarian of the Chicago 
Publie Library; an address by Mr. Charles A. 
Coolidge, of the firm of Shepley, Rutan & 
Coolidge, architects of the building, and an 
address by James B. Angell, president emeri- 
tus of the University of Michigan. Mr. 
Franklin MacVeagh, secretary of the treasury. 
will deliver the address at the Convocation, 
which will be held in Harper Court at 3 P.M. 
THE main building of the Agricultural and 
Mechanical College of Texas was destroyed by 
fire on May 27, between the hours of two and 
four in the morning. This building was 
erected in 1876 at a cost of $100,000. It con- 
tained the administration offices, the library 
and class rooms for three departments. 
A DORMITORY consisting of two, three, four 
and five-room apartments for married students 
has been established at the University of Chi- 
cago. 
Dr. Frepertck J. E. Woopsrmce, professor 
of philosophy, has been appointed dean of the 
graduate faculties of Columbia University. 
Ar the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- 
ogy the William Barton Rogers professorship 
of economic geology has been established as a 
memorial to the founder of the institute, and 
with a portion of the bequest of Mrs. Rogers. 
Mr. Waldemar Lindgren, chief geologist of the 
U. S. Geological Survey, has been elected to 
this chair. In the same department Dr. 
Charles H. Warren has been advanced to be 
full professor and Dr. Frederick H. Lahee, of 
Dartmouth College, and Mr. John D. Mac- 
kenzie, of Cornell University, have been called 
as instructors. Professor T. A. Jaggar, Jr., as 
has already been noted in Scmncsz, will spend 
about five years as director of the Hawaiian 
Voleano Observatory. Promotions at the 
institute have been made as follows: To full 
professorships: F. J. Moore, organic chemis- 
try; C. L. Adams, drawing and descriptive 
geometry; O. K. Fuller, theoretical and ap- 
plied mechanics; C. F. Park, of mechanism, 
and W. A. Johnson, theoretical and applied 
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mechanism. To associate professorships: W. 
K. Lewis, chemical engineering; ©. W. Berry, 
heat engineering; H. W. Hayward, theoretical 
and applied mechanics, and C. J. Riley, heat 
engineering. To assistant professor: R. P. 
Bigelow, zoology and parasitology; H. K. Bur- 
rison, mechanical drawing and descriptive 
geometry; W. H. James, mechanical drawing; 
L. S. Smith, theoretical and applied mechan- 
ics; C. R. Hayward, mining engineering and 
metallurgy, and N. C. Page, physics. Re- 
search associate Charles A. Kraus has been 
made assistant professor of physico-chemical 
research; assistant J. P. Maxfield instructor 
in physics and assistant Franz Schneider, Jr., 
instructor in biology and public health. 
StepHen §. Corvin, Ph.B. (Brown, 791), 
Ph.D. (Strasburg, 797), professor of psychol- 
ogy in the University of Illinois, has accepted 
a chair in educational psychology in Brown 
University, newly established in cooperation 
with the State Board of Education with the 
assistance of an appropriation made by the 
state legislature. 
Dr. A. S. Pearse will succeed Professor S. 
J. Holmes in the zoological department of the 
University of Wisconsin. 
New instructors in the department of anat- 
omy of the University of Pittsburgh Medical 
School are announced as follows: Edgar 
Davidson Congdon, A.B., A.M. (Syracuse), 
Ph.D. (Harvard), instructor in anatomy in 
the Cornell Medical School, New York City, 
N. Y., and Otto Frederick Kampmeier, A.B. 
(Iowa), Ph.D. (Princeton), fellow in compara- 
tive anatomy at Princeton. 
Dr. Bertram G. SmirH, during the past year 
a graduate student in Columbia University, 
has been appointed assistant professor of zool- 
ogy in the Michigan State Normal College at 
Ypsilanti. 
Mr. CO. M. Hintiarp, who has been teaching 
bacteriology for two years at the College of 
the City of New York, has resigned to accept 
a position as assistant professor of bacteriol- 
ogy and sanitary science at Purdue Univer- 
sity. Mr. Hilliard’s place at the City College 
will be taken by Dr. W. W. Browne, who takes 
