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fitness for aviation and other vocations for 
which speed and accuracy of adjustment of 
the eye for clear seeing at different distances 
are a prerequisite. 
In accordance with plans for cooperation of 
the Bureau of Chemistry and the Bureau of 
Fisheries on problems of preparation and 
preservation of fishery products for food, Dr. 
F. C. Weber, of the Bureau of Chemistry, 
and Drs. G. G. Scott and W. W. Browne, of 
the College of the City of New York, tempo- 
rary assistants of the Bureau of Fisheries, 
have begun work for the summer at Perkins 
Laboratory, Gloucester, Mass., where facilities 
and cooperation are afforded by the Gorton- 
Pew Fisheries Co. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 
NEWS 
Tue University of Chicago has received 
from Mr. La Verne Noyes a gift of $2,500,000, 
to be used in the education of soldiers and 
sailors and their descendents after the war. 
In addition the fund provides for the perpetu- 
ation of instruction in American history and 
the public duties of citizenship. 
Cotumsia University is a beneficiary under 
the will of Major Eugene Wilson Caldwell, of 
the United States Medical Reserve Corps, 
from two trust funds upon the death of life 
tenants to support a foundation for general 
educational work. Dr. Caldwell died in 
Roosevelt Hospital from burns received while 
experimenting with X-rays. His estate was 
valued at more than $150,000. 
Tue Kansas City Veterinary College, after 
an existence of twenty-seven years, during 
which it has graduated nearly 1,700 men, has 
decided to abandon the field of veterinary edu- 
cation. It has transferred to the Kansas 
State Agricultural College its records and 
good will, and made arrangements with that 
institution to take over its students as far as 
possible and agreeable to them. 
Tue Department of Chemistry of the State 
College of Washington, Pullman, Washington, 
announces the establishment of a fellowship, 
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to be devoted to research on the extension of 
the chemical uses of magnesite, paying $600 a 
year. 
Dr. C. W. McoCampse.t, for eight years a 
member of the department of animal hus- 
bandry of the Kansas State Agricultural 
College, is the new head of the department, 
succeeding Professor W. A. Cochel, who has 
resigned. 
Proressor J. H. Ransom, after eighteen 
years in Purdue University, has accepted the 
professorship of chemistry and director of the 
chemical laboratories in Vanderbilt Univer- 
sity, Nashville, Tenn. 
W. V. Lovitt, Ph.D., Chicago, of the mathe- 
matical department of Purdue University, has 
been appointed associate professor of mathe- 
matics in Colorado College. 
Tue electors to the Harkness scholarship in 
geology in Cambridge University have recom- 
mended that the scholarship for women for 
1918 be awarded to Majorie E. J. Chandler, 
Newnham College. 
Sir Cuarves Parsons has accepted the office 
of president of the Polytechnic School of 
Engineering, London, in succession to the late 
Mr. Charles Hawksley. 
Dr. Maup Kinnaman, of Washington, N. J., 
has been made head of the new medical college 
at Vellore, India. 
DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 
THE FUNDAMENTALS OF DYNAMICS 
Most discussions of elementary mechanics 
refer to variations in point of view and espe- 
cially to variations of emphasis which are all 
equally logical and all fully understood by care- 
ful students of the subject. Therefore, dis- 
cussions of elementary mechanics usually say 
a great deal to “put over” a mere grain of 
edification, and Professor E. V. Huntington’s 
recent discussions of elementary mechanics in 
Science and in the American Mathematical 
Monthly is no exception to the general rule. 
From the most favorable point of view, Pro- 
fessor Huntington’s discussion is much ado 
about nothing; but from our point of view it 
