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faculty appointed in 1873, of whom two—Dr. 
Tuttle, of Virginia, and Dr. Mendenhall, of 
Rayvenna—now survive. 
TuE temporary officers of the American As- 
sociation of Clinical Psychologists have deemed 
it advisable to hold the annual meeting 
scheduled for December, 1918. The temporary 
officers of the association are as follows: Chair- 
man, J. EH. Wallace Wallin; Secretary, Leta 
S. Hollingworth; Committee on Constitution, 
Leta §. Hollingworth, David Mitchell and 
Francis N. Maxfield; Committe on nomina- 
tion of officers and new members, Rudolf Pint- 
ner, Helen Thompson Woolley and H. H. 
Goddard. 
Durine the past summer, the Gail Borden 
collection of minerals, belonging to Occidental 
College, Los Angeles, which had been loaned 
to the mining exhibit at the San Diego Fair, 
has been rearranged and placed in a better 
position for study. This collection containing 
some of the finest mineral specimens on ex- 
hibition in southern California, became the 
property of the college some years ago and 
forms the nucleus around which its mineralog- 
ical collections are grouped. Additions to 
these by gift and purchase have been made 
from time to time so that to-day the collection 
has representative series of most of the eco- 
nomically valuable minerals, especially those 
of the west. The collection is open to the 
public and facilities for study of the specimens 
will be extenced to visiting mineralogists. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 
NEWS 
A step of much importance to Utah was 
taken by the Board of Trustees of the Utah 
Agricultural College on December 2, when 
they formally established an Agricultural En- 
gineering Experiment Station as an integral 
part of that institution. Under the plan of 
organization there will be five experimental 
divisions of the new station under the follow- 
ing personnel: 
Irrigation and Drainage: Dr. F. S. Harris and 
Professor O. W. Israelsen. 
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Roads: Professor Wm. Peterson and Ray B. 
West. 
Farm Machinery and Transportation: Professor 
L. R. Humphreys. 
Manufacture of Agricultural Products: Dr. M. 
C. Merrill and Professor J. C. Thomas. 
Rural Architecture and Buildings: Professor R. 
B. West. 
THE governing board of the Sheffield Scien- 
tifie School, Yale University, has decided, 
without a dissenting vote, to recommend the 
establishment of a four-year course in place 
of the present three-year course. 
Dean E. A. Bircs, professor of zoology, will 
continue to act as president of the University 
of Wisconsin until a successor is elected to the 
late President C. R. Van Hise. 
Dr. Horace D. Arnotp has been appointed 
director of the Harvard Graduate School of 
Medicine; Alexander S. Begg, dean, and 
Charles L. Seudder, acting dean. The other 
members of the administrative board chosen 
are: Drs. David L. Edsall, George G. Sears, 
Algernon Coolidge, Ernest E. Tyzzer and 
Francis W. Peabody. 
Proressor OC. A. Wricut, of the Iowa State 
College, has been appointed professor of elec- 
trical engineering, in the College of Engineer- 
ing at Ohio State University. 
DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 
A LEAGUE OF NATIONS 
To rue Eprror or Scmnce: Allow me to call 
the attention of your readers to the statement 
below, regarding a League of Nations. 
Until a month ago the best that we could do 
was to “win the war.” Now that the war is 
won, let us remember that it has been won for 
peace; and let us therefore do our utmost to 
prevent the recurrence of anything so utterly 
wasteful, so inanely unscientific as warfare 
as a means of settling international disputes. 
Is it not indeed unthinkable that we should 
again attempt to settle differences by a method, 
in which the demonstration of rightfulness 
consists so largely in discovering which nation 
or group of nations ean kill or starve the great- 
est number of its opponents, and in which the 
