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Glasgow, on April 26, in the Hall of the Insti- 

 tution of Civil Engineers. 



At a meeting of the advisory council of the 

 Phipps Institute, Philadelphia, April 29, gifts 

 totaling $150,000 were announced. The sum of 

 $25,000 will be given yearly for five years by 

 the Carnegie Corporation, for research pur- 

 poses. Dr. Josiah H. Penniman, acting pro- 

 vost of the University of Pennsylvania, stated 

 that the board of- trustees had voted $25,000 tx) 

 be given during th'e next two years to the insti- 

 tute. The family of Henry Phipps announced 

 that they pledged $500,000 to the endowment 

 fund, provided an additional $2,500,000 be 

 raised. 



The fund for the establishment of the Har- 

 vard School of Public Health will te entitled 

 the Henry Pickering Walcott Fund in honor 

 of the senior member of the Harvard Corpora- 

 tion. As has already been announced, the 

 Rockefeller Foundation has agreed to con- 

 tribute at once $1,500,000 and eventually 

 $500,000 in addition; these amounts will be 

 increased by a fund of $1,000,000 provided by 

 the university and also by the income of more 

 than $3,000,000 which is now being expended 

 by the university in various departments which 

 will be incorporated in the school. It will prob- 

 ably open next year for instruction and 

 research in the field of public health. It will 

 be closely allied to the Harvard Medical School, 

 and Dr. David L. Edsall will serve as dean of 

 both schools. Certain departments now organ- 

 ized under the Medical School, such as those 

 of industrial hygiene and tropical medicine, 

 will become part of the new school, which will 

 also develop and enlarge the work of the School 

 of Public Health now jointly conducted by 

 Harvard and' the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology. 



The Board of Research Studies of the Uni- 

 versity of Cambridge, in a report on the ad- 

 mission of research students, records that steps 

 have been taken to concentrate in the board the 

 power of admission of research students, and 

 it is hoped that this will tend towards the 

 preservation of a uniform standard of quali- 

 fication. Secondly, they record that it has 

 been decided to institute the degrees of M.Litt. 



and M.Se. The regulations for these degrees 

 appear in the current number of the Beporter. 

 The number of research students admitted 

 when the last report was presented was 72. 

 Since then 71 have been admitted, making in 

 all 143. These figures, however, hardly repre- 

 sent the comparative number of admissions 

 this year and last, for at the beginning many 

 already at work under the old regulations for 

 the B.A. degree were permitted to transfer. 

 During the year two students w^ithdrew their 

 names. The proportion of Cambridge gradu- 

 ates among the students now admitted has 

 risen. The large number of graduates of other 

 universities within the British Isles remains a 

 feature. Those from Canada and the United 

 States are fewer than may be anticipated when 

 the degree is better known, their combined 

 number — 25- — being approximately that of 

 those coming from the Indian Empire. 



The British Board of Trade has issued an 

 order exempting certain German scientific and 

 other periodicals from the provisions of the 

 German Reparation Act of 1921. Any article 

 is exempted ''being a publication in the Ger- 

 man language which is proved to the satisfac- 

 tion of the commissioners of customs and excise 

 to be a periodical publication of a German 

 learned society, or other scientific or jDhilosoph- 

 ieal periodical publication." 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NOTES 



Professor Edward H. Rockwell, after 

 twenty years of service on the faculty of the 

 Engineering School at Tufts College, has ac- 

 cepted a call to Rutgers College to be dean of 

 the Engineering School. 



Anxouncembnt is made by the Rensselaer 

 Polytechnic Institute that Professor Edwin A. 

 Fessenden, of Pennsylvania State College, will 

 become, at the beginning of the next collegiate 

 year, professor and head of its department of 

 mechanical engineering. 



Professor Herbert R. Moody, for seventeen 

 years connected with the department of chem- 

 istry of the College of the City of New York 

 as professor of industrial chemistry and chem- 

 ical engineering, has been appointed director 



