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SCIENCE 



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Glass Division of the American Ceramie So- 

 ciety has made arrangements for providing 

 glass of desired composition and desired form 

 for investigators in this field. The material 

 will be supplied free of charge and no limita- 

 tions as to the nature of the research will be 

 imposed. The recipients of the material will 

 be under no obligations except that of publica- 

 tion of the results of their investigations. The 

 committee, however, requests that wherever 

 possible the Journal of the American Ceramic 

 Society be given preference in reporting the 

 results. Persons who are interested are re- 

 quested to address their inquiries to one of the 

 following members of the committee on re- 

 search : E. C. Sullivan, Corning Glass Works, 

 Corning, New York; E. W. Washburn, Univer- 

 sity of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois; R. B. Sos- 

 man. Geophysical Laboratory, Washington, 

 D. C. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NOTES 



Williams College alumni are planning to 

 raise $1,500,000 during the coming spring. 

 One million of this sum, of which $200,000 has 

 been pledged as a contingent gift by the Gen- 

 eral Education Board, is to provide adequate 

 endowment for professors' salaries. The re- 

 maining $500,000 is to be used towards more 

 complete facilities for physical education. 



NoETHVsrESTERN UNIVERSITY has been noti- 

 fied that the General Education Board, of New 

 York (the Rockefeller Foundation) has appro- 

 priated $600,000 for increase of faculty sala 

 ries, provided the university raises $1,400,000. 



At the Tulane University of Louisiana 

 School of Medicine, New Orleans, it is planned 

 to erect a new modern hospital on the univer- 

 sity campus at a cost of between $1,000,000 

 and $2,000,000. The hospital will be in con- 

 nection with the medical school of the uni- 

 versity. 



State appropriations of the New York legis- 

 lature for the College of Agriculture at Ithaca 

 include $83,000 for the construction of a new 

 wing on the main building of the Veterinary 

 Building, and $183,000 for equipment for the 



new Dairy Building. This budget is some- 

 what larger than usual and will permit more 

 extension work by the college. 



Dr. Marion Edv^aeds Pabk, dean of Rad- 

 cliffe College, has been elected president of 

 Bryn Mawr College, to succeed M. Carey 

 Thomas, who retires at the end of the present 

 academic year. 



Professor William F. Osgood, of the math- 

 ematics department, has been appointed acting 

 dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sci- 

 ence of Harvard University for the second half 

 year. Dean Haskins is on leave of absence 

 for that period so that he may recuperate after 

 an attack of influenza. 



Professor J. W. Barton, associate pro- 

 fessor of psychology in the School of Educa- 

 tion of the University of Idaho, has been pro- 

 moted to a full professorship of psychology. 

 Mr. C. W. Chenoweth (M.A., Harvard) has 

 been elected associate professor of philosophjr. 



Dr. Henri Claude, associate professor and 

 physician to the Saint-Antoine Hospital, has 

 been appointed to the chair of clinical mental 

 diseases and diseases of the brain in the Paris 

 School of Medicine, to succeed the late Pro- 

 fessor Dupre. 



Dr. George J. Heuee, associate professor of 

 surgery at the Johns Hopkins Medical School, 

 has accepted the professorship of surgery in 

 the Medical College of the University of Cin- 

 cinnati. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPOND- 



ENCE 



PRACTICABLE SUBSTITUTES FOR GRAIN 



ALCOHOL 



Use of ethyl or grain alcohol for laboratory 

 purposes has long involved certain difficulties 

 connected with securing it tax-free and pre- 

 serving it for its intended uses only. Since the 

 passage of the various prohibition statutes the 

 observance of the necessary regulations govern- 

 ing its use occasions far more trouble, while 

 those who are interested in putting it to un- 

 scientific uses make the guardianship of the 

 precious fluid a serious responsibility. Sub- 



