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of Medicine in succession to the late Dr. 

 Ernest Dupre. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NOTES 



AsiONG appropriations announced by the 

 General Education Board are : Northwestern 

 University, toward $2,000,000, $600,000; Bos- 

 ton University, Boston, Mass., toward 

 $1,500,000, $400,000; Illinois Wesleyan Uni- 

 versity, toward $400,000, $135,000; New York 

 University, $500,000, toward $1,500,000; for 

 the discharge of its outstanding obligations, 

 $500,000. 



De. Frederick L. HopFMA^T has accepted the 

 position of dean of what will probably be 

 known as the "Graduate School of Applied 

 Business Science, of the Babson Institute, at 

 Wellesley Hills, Mass. Dr. Hoffman will con- 

 tinue his connection with the Prudential Life 

 Insurance Company as consulting statistician, 

 and will hereafter divide his time as may best 

 meet the needs of his new work. In his new 

 position he is expected to develop the business 

 education for officers and managers of indus- 

 trial undertakings, including insurance. The 

 plans under way include an entire group of 

 new buildings, and a museum of industrial 

 products and processes. Dr. Hof&nan will 

 make his future home at Wellesley Hills. 



Dr. Simeon Burt Wolbach has been ap- 

 pointed Shattuck professor of pathologic 

 anatomy in the Harvard Medical School, to 

 fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Dr. 

 WUliam T. Councilman. 



Leigh Page, Ph.D., assistant professor of 

 physics in Tale University, has been promoted 

 to be professor of mathematical sciences begin- 

 ning with the academic year 1922-23, with as- 

 signment to the Sheffield Scientific School. 



The chair of mining at Sheffield University, 

 vacant by the death of Professor F. E. Arm- 

 strong, has been filled by the appointment of 

 Mr. Douglas Hay. 



Dr. Henri Claude has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of mental diseases in the Paris Faculty 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPOND- 

 ENCE 



THE VOTE ON THE EVOLUTION BILL IN 

 THE KENTUCKY STATE LEGISLATURE 

 On March 9, the lower house of the Ken- 

 tucky legislature, contrary to what was ex- 

 pected, took the anti-evolution bill (the one 

 carrying a heavy fine and jail sentence for a 

 violation of its provisions) out of the hands of 

 the committee and put it to vote. Not since 

 the memorable election of William A. Bradley 

 to the Senate in 1908. has there been in the 

 legislature such intense interest in the result 

 of a ballot. As names were called the majority 

 for and against see-sawed with narrow margins, 

 and there was much scurrying hither and 

 thither by the advocates and opponents of the 

 bill for the purpose of finding and dragging 

 in their respective absentees for the vote. It 

 was like a neck and neck horse race, and Ken- 

 tuckians do dearly love a horse race. The final 

 ballot resulted in 41 votes for the measure and 

 42 against. 



An analysis of the vote above recorded shows 

 that with the legislative district taken as a unit 

 and computing the percentage of illiteracy on 

 the basis of the male population, twenty-one 

 years old and upward, in each, the advocates of 

 the bill represented an illiteracy of 13.5 per 

 cent., and the opponents of the bill an illiteracy 

 of 10.7 per cent. The illiteracy of the state as 

 a whole computed on the same basis is 11.3 

 per cent. 



In view of the closeness of the vote on this 

 measure and what an analysis of it reveals as 

 to the forces which were backing its passage, 

 the proposal that the content of teaching in the 

 state universities shall be dictated by legisla- 

 tive enactment, as advocated by Mr. Bryan, is 

 fraught with interesting possibilities. 



As interesting incidents connected with the 

 final attempt to pass this anti-evolution 

 measure, are the following: 



Two persons, not members of the assembly, 

 were permitted to address the house on the 

 measure, President McVey of the university 

 against it and Rev. Noel Gaines, of Frank- 



