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SCIENCE 



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and not wait foi' our milennial anniversary be- 

 fore establishing a great American Museum of 

 Agriculture. 



F. Lamson-Scribner 



Washington, D. C. 

 October 21, 1921 



SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 



THE WILLIAM BARTON ROGERS SCIENCE 



HALL OF THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM 



AND MARY 



An advisory committee of prominent men, 

 most of whom are trustees or alumni of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has 

 been formed in the interests of a movement to 

 provide for the erection at the College of 

 William and Mary, in Virginia, of the William 

 Barton Rogers Memorial Science Hall, in honor 

 of the William and Mary graduate who found- 

 ed the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 



The members of the committee are T. Cole- 

 man DuPont, Wilmington, Del., Charles W. 

 Eliot, Cambridge, Mass. ; Samuel Morse 

 Felton, Chicago, 111.; Francis Russell Hart, 

 Boston, Mass.; Charles Hayden, New York, 

 K T.; Otto H. Kahn, New York, N. Y.; Hugh 

 MacRae, Wilmington, N. C. ; Eliakim Hastings 

 Moore, Chicago, 111. ; James P. Munroe, Bos- 

 ton, Mass.; Henry Smith Pritchett, New York, 

 N. Y. ; Charles Augustus Stone, New York, 

 N. Y.; Gerard Swope, New York, N. Y.; Elihu 

 Thomson, Swampscott, Mass. ; Charles Doo- 

 little Waleott, Washington, D. C. ; Edwin 

 Sibley Webster, Boston, Mass. 



The College of William and Mary is the 

 second oldest college in the United States, 

 yielding only to Harvard University in this 

 respect. President Harding, on a visit to the 

 college on October 19 last, in company with 

 Secretaries Hughes, Hoover, Mellon and 

 Weeks, of his cabinet, was greatly impressed 

 with the traditions and present progress of the 

 venerable institution. He referred to the 

 college as 'the Spartan of American universi- 

 ties," having in mind, no doubt, the successful 

 effort of William and Mary to endure after its 

 burning in the Civil War, in 1862, shortly 

 after Dr. Rogers had established in Boston the 

 great technical school. 



William Barton Rogers was one of four 

 brothers, who were educated at William and 



Mary, each in later life achieving great dis- 

 tinction in a chosen field of science. He, him- 

 self, as a geologist, was noted in Virginia long 

 before he went to Boston. He was the intro- 

 ducer of the laboratory method of teaching 

 science in this country, according to Dr. 

 Charles W. Eliot, who was one of his original 

 faculty at the Institute of Technology. The 

 three other brothers were Henry D. Rogers, 

 who became regius professor of natural history 

 in the University of Glasgow, Scotland; James 

 Blythe Rogers, professor of chemistry in the 

 University of Pennsylvania; and Robert 

 Empie Rogers, professor of toxicology in the 

 Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. 



The sum of $200,000 has been set as the 

 amount needed for building the Science Hall, 

 which is designed to commemorate the bond of 

 friendship between the South's oldest college 

 and the North's foremost institution of tech- 

 nology. Contributions may be sent to E. B. 

 Thomas, alumni director, 331 Madison Avenue, 

 New York City. 



RETIREMENT OF PROFESSOR ALBERT W. 

 SMITH OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY 



The following minute has been adopted by 

 the University Faculty of Cornell University 

 on the occasion of the retirement of Professor 

 Albert W. Smith: 



In the retirement from his academic functions 

 of Albert William Smith, dean of Sibley College 

 and acting president of the university, this 

 faculty suffers a heavy loss. Few have been so 

 universally, so deeply, so deservedly loved. An 

 alumnus of Cornell in the first decade of her 

 career, he was from early in his undergraduate 

 days a leader both in study and in manly sports, 

 and one whom his fellows delighted to honor. 

 Eeturhing to Cornell in 1886 for graduate study, 

 he was not again suffered to depart from academic 

 life. Prom 1887 to 1891 he taught engineering 

 at Cornell, in 1891-1892 at the University of 

 Wisconsin, from 1892 to 1904 was head of the 

 work in mechanical engineering at Stanford. 

 Since 1904, when he was called back to Cornell 

 to succeed Dr. Thurston in the headship of Sibley 

 College, he has remained with his alma mater, 

 adding to his directorship the chair of power 

 engineering; and in 1920, at the retirement of 

 Dr. Sehurman, he became acting president of the 

 university. 



With what loyalty and efficiency he has dis- 



