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are employed as the principal professors, in- 

 structors or lecturers having severally the 

 charge of the following subjects: mathematics, 

 English, physiological chemistry, electrical en- 

 gineering, architecture, mining engineering, 

 metallurgy, mechanical engineering, history 

 and sociology and commercial geography. It 

 is understood that the estate will be between 

 $500,000 and $600,000. 



The sum of $25,000 as the nucleus of an 

 endowment fund to increase the salaries of 

 professors has been willed to the University of 

 Pennsylvania by Mrs. Elizabeth Wharton 

 McKean. 



Brown IJNn'ERSiTY has completed the collec- 

 tion of an additional endowment fund of 

 $1,000,000 from some twenty-five hundred 

 donors. This is the third fund of this amount 

 collected under the administration of Presi- 

 dent Faunce. 



Announcemes^t of plans for new building 

 operations at the University of Chicago, to 

 involve approximately $1,000,000, was made by 

 President Judson at the eighty-third convo- 

 cation. The new buildings, which are to be 

 begun at once, and to be completed within two 

 years, are : a building for the departments of 

 geology and geography to cost about $300,000 ; 

 a gymnasium for women, to cost approximately 

 the same sum, and a building to house the 

 classical departments and their departmental 

 libraries, to cost $225,000. In addition, the 

 widely known Marshall Field, on which take 

 place the football and athletic contests, and 

 which adjoins the great Bartlett Gymnasium, 

 is to have grandstands built of cement, and is 

 to be surrounded by a concrete wall. 



The Sloane Laboratory of Physics of Yale 

 University was dedicated as part of the com- 

 mencement exercises. A brief address was 

 made by President Hadley. Messrs. Henry T. 

 Sloane and Wm. B. Sloane, of New York City, 

 who provided more than half a million dollars 

 for the erection of the laboratory, were present. 



Professor Arthur Michael, formerly of 

 Tufts College, and Professor Elmer P. Kohler, 

 of Bryn Mawr College, have been appointed 

 professors of chemistry in Harvard Univer- 



sity. Both will direct research in organic 

 chemistry, and Professor Kohler will also con- 

 duct the chief undergraduate course in this 

 subject and assume the charge of the intro- 

 ductory course in chemistry intended for those 

 who have not pursued the subject in school. 

 Professor Arthur B. Lamb, whose appoint- 

 ment as assistant professor has already been 

 announced, will give another elementary 

 course in inorganic chemistry (for those who 

 have passed the admission examination in a 

 satisfactory manner) and also conduct ad- 

 vanced instruction in electrochemistry. A 

 further addition to the department of chem- 

 istry at Harvard is that of Dr. Grinnell Jones, 

 of the University of Illinois, who has been 

 appointed instructor. 



Dr. Clark A. Hamann, professor of applied 

 anatomy and clinical surgery, has been ap- 

 pointed dean of the medical department of 

 Western Reserve University in succession to 

 Dr. B. L. Millikan. Dr. Howard B. Haskins 

 has been promoted to be associate professor of 

 organic chemistry, and Dr. David Marine to 

 be assistant professor of experimental medi- 

 cine, and John S. Davidson to be associate 

 in anatomy. Mr. Ralph J. Giknore has been 

 appointed instructor in biology. 



At Brown University, Dr. Alfred H. Jones, 

 of Cornell University, has been appointed 

 professor of philosophy to succeed Dr. Alex- 

 ander Meiklejohn, elected to the presidency of 

 Amherst College. Mr. Alfred C. Hawkins 

 has been appointed instructor in geology. 

 Promotions include : William H. Kenerson, 

 associate professor of mechanical engineer- 

 ing, to become professor; Roland G. D. 

 Richardson, assistant professor of pure 

 mathematics, to become associate professor; 

 James A. Hall, assistant in mechanical engi- 

 neering, to become instructor. 



At the Worcester Polytechnic Institute Dr. 

 Levi L. Conant, professor of mathematics, has 

 been continued by the trustees as acting 

 president. To relieve Professor Conant, Dr. 

 Raymond K. Morley, now of the University 

 of Illinois, has been appointed assistant pro- 

 fessor of mathematics. John Harlan Nel- 



