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[N. S. Vol. XXXVI. No. i 



UNIVEESITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Mrs. Eadcliffe Crocker has made a gift 

 of £1,500 to University College Hospital to 

 endow a traveling scholarship in dermatology 

 in memory of her husband, Dr. H. Radcliffe 

 Crocker, for 30 years physician to the hospital. 

 The scholarship carries with it a gold medal, 

 and will be awarded every five years. 



In a note reprinted in Science on the num- 

 ber of degrees conferred by a number of 

 American colleges and universities, Cornell 

 University was omitted. This university con- 

 ferred in 1912, 918 degrees, in 1911, 814 de- 

 grees, and in 1902, 496 degrees. 



A COMPLIMENTARY dinner was given by 

 President Charles F. Thwing, of Western Re- 

 serve University, at the University Club, 

 Cleveland, on Thursday evening, October 3, 

 in honor of students winning honors and 

 prizes by high scholarship in Adelbert College. 

 President Thwing's guests included twenty- 

 nine students. 



Dean Woods, of the department of agri- 

 culture of the University of Minnesota, re- 

 cently declined an offer of $9,000 to become 

 head of the agricultural department of the 

 University of California. The regents of 

 the University of Minnesota voted to increase 

 his salary to $7,500. 



Dr. John Fraser, assistant professor of 

 chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania, 

 has been elected dean of the Towne Scientific 

 School. His father and his grandfather were 

 both distinguished professors of chemistry in 

 the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. William 

 Pepper, whose appointment as dean of the 

 medical school, has already been announced, 

 is the son of Dr. William Pepper and the 

 grandson of Dr. William Pepper, both of 

 whom were distinguished professors of medi- 

 cine in the university. 



Professor George Herbert Palmer, AHord 

 professor of natural religion, moral philosophy 

 and civil polity, will be the Harvard exchange 

 professor with the four western colleges. His 

 term of service will fall in the second half 

 year. The officers who will come from the 



western colleges in the exchange are Professor 

 D. E. Watkins, from Knox College, Galesburg, 

 Ulinois, who will teach in the department of 

 public speaking through the year; Professor 

 P. F. Peck, of Grinnell College, Iowa, who 

 will give instruction in American history in 

 the second half year, and Professor G. H. Al- 

 bright, of Colorado College, who will give in- 

 struction in mathematics. Beloit College, 

 Wisconsin, has not yet chosen its exchange 

 professor. 



At the University of Pennsylvania Clarence 

 Erwin McClung, Ph.D., now professor of zool- 

 ogy in the University of Kansas, takes the 

 chair made vacant by the death of Dr. Thomas 

 H. Montgomery, Jr. Robert Heywood Fer- 

 nald, of the Case School of Applied Science, 

 succeeds the late Professor Henry W. Spangler 

 as professor of dynamic engineering. 



Professor John Alden Ferguson, head of 

 the Forest School of the University of Mis- 

 souri, has returned to the Pennsylvania State 

 College, as head of the Forest School. 



Professor Olxn Ferguson, of Union Col- 

 lege, has become head of the electrical engi- 

 neering department at the University of Ne- 

 braska. His place at Union College has been 

 taken by Professor Walter L. Upson, of the 

 University of Vermont. 



Dr. Edna Carter, holder of the Sarah Ber- 

 liner fellowship at the University of Wiirz- 

 burg in 1910-11, returns to Vassar College as 

 associate professor in physics. 



Professor O. A. Johannsen, formerly ento- 

 mologist of Maine Station at Orono, has re- 

 turned to Cornell University to teach in the 

 department of biology. 



To fill the vacany caused by the appointment 

 as full professor of organic chemistry at Har- 

 vard University of Professor Elmer P. Kohler, 

 who has been connected with Bryn Mawr Col- 

 lege for twenty-one years. Dr. Roger F. 

 Brunei, A.B. (Colby), Ph.D. (Hopkins), has 

 been called from Syracuse University. 



Dr. Lewis William Fetzer, of the United 

 States Office of Experiment Stations, has 

 been elected associate professor of chemical 



