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neering opportunities and requirements, dis- 

 cussions of teaching problems, excursions to 

 other plants and social meetings. This course 

 gives engineering teachers an opportunity to 

 become acquainted with the latest develop- 

 ments in electrical power apparatus, with shop 

 methods in use in large manufacturing con- 

 cerns, and to meet and exchange ideas on 

 teaching subjects with other engineering 

 teachers of experience. Since the Westing- 

 house company draws men from engineering 

 schools, it is of advantage to it that students 

 may know not only of the opportunities open 

 but of methods of working efficiently in its 

 organization. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



Dr. John E. Murlin, for eight years as- 

 sistant professor of physiology in the medical 

 school of Cornell University, has been ap- 

 pointed director of the new department of 

 vital economics at the University of Rochester. 

 This department is being organized from 

 funds made available by the will of Lewis P. 

 Eoss, whose will gave to the university the 

 residuary estate of more than $800,000, the 

 income only to be used "to the end that 

 human life may be prolonged with increased 

 health and happiness." The trustees were in- 

 structed to expend that income for two pur- 

 poses — to contribute toward the support, im- 

 provement, and extension of the department 

 of household economics of the Mechanics' In- 

 stitute of Eochester, and to establish in the 

 university a department of vital economics. 

 Dr. Murlin is now a major in the Sanitary 

 Corps of the national army, and head of the 

 food division in the surgeon general's office. 



The school of engineering of the Pennsyl- 

 vania State College has the largest freshman 

 enrollment in its history, numbering 271 as 

 compared to 210 at this time last year. The 

 upper classes are from 50 to 75 per cent, of 

 normal, due to the large nmnber who volun- 

 teered last spring. 



Professor George H. Perkins, dean of the 

 College of Arts and Sciences of the Uni- 

 versity of Vermont and professor of natural 



history, has been designated as acting presi- 

 dent for the next year. President Guy Potter 

 Benton has been granted a year's leave of 

 absence by the trustees in order to comply 

 with the request of the National "War Work 

 Council to aid in the coordination and direc- 

 tion of the council's work in Europe. Presi- 

 dent Benton sailed early in September in 

 charge of a force of thirty Young Men's 

 Christian Association men. 



Albert Russell Mann, professor of rural 

 social organization, and acting dean has been 

 appointed dean of the New York State Col- 

 lege of Agriculture at Cornell University. 



Dr. C. p. Fitch, of the New York State 

 Veterinary College, has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of comparative pathology and bacteriol- 

 ogy and chairman of the division of veteri- 

 nary medicine in the department of agricul- 

 ture. University of Minnesota. 



The following promotions have been made 

 at the school of medicine. Western Eeserve 

 University: Paul J. Hanzlik, to be assistant 

 professor of pharmacology; Cyrus Hartwell 

 Fiske, to be assistant professor of biochem- 

 istry; Eoy Wesley Scott, to be associate in 

 physiology; Julius Moses Rogoff, to be senior 

 instructor in experimental medicine; Roy 

 Bartlett Metz, to be associate in ophthalmol- 

 ogy; Joseph Edgar McClelland, to be instruc- 

 tor in pediatrics; Carlos Eugene Pitkin, to be 

 instructor in diseases of the nose, ear and 

 throat; Chester Dale Christie, to be instructor 

 in medicine; Marion Blakenhorn, to be in- 

 structor in medicine. 



Professor N. C. Curtis, of Tulane Univer- 

 sity, has been appointed associate professor of 

 architectural design in the University of 

 Illinois. 



Dr. R. M. Strong has been promoted from 

 associate professor of anatomy to professor of 

 microscopic anatomy in the medical school of 

 Vanderbilt University. 



Dr. O. van der Stricht, professor of histol- 

 ogy and embryology at Ghent, Belgiiun, who 

 for the past two years has held the post of 

 feUow in cytology in the anatomical labora- 

 tory of Western Reserve University, has been 



