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evidence I believe I can at least say vpitli Mark 

 Twain 'that the report is grossly exagger- 

 ated.' " 



At the annual meeting of the American As- 

 sociation for the Study and Prevention of In- 

 fant Mortality, held in Cleveland, the follow- 

 ing officers were elected to serve for the en- 

 suing year: President, Dr. L. Emmet Holt, of 

 New York; president-elect, Dr. J. Whitridge 

 Williams, of Baltimore; first vice-president. 

 Dr. Isaac A. Abt, of Chicago; second vice- 

 president. Dr. Arthur D. Baldwin, of Cleve- 

 land; secretary. Dr. Philip Van Ingen, of New 

 York; treasurer. Dr. Austin McLanahan, of 

 Baltimore; executive secretary. Miss Gertrude 

 B. Knipp, of Baltimore. The next meeting of 

 the association will be held in Kansas City, 

 Missouri. 



Dr. C. p. Steinmetz gives each year a lec- 

 ture in Chicago before a joint meeting of the 

 Chicago Section of the American Institute of 

 Electrical Engineers and the Electrical Sec- 

 tion of the Western Society of Engineers. 

 The lecture this year will be on October 28 

 and the subject is " Some Problems in Elec- 

 trical Engineering." 



On the evening of October 3 Professor H. 

 E. Jordan, of the University of Virginia, 

 delivered an address on " Eugenics : the Hear- 

 ing of the Human Thoroughbred," before the 

 American Association for the Study and Pre- 

 vention of Infant Mortality, meeting in 

 Cleveland. 



The Eoyal Geographical Society, London, 

 proposes to hold on March 17 a meeting com- 

 memorative of the centenary of the birth of 

 David Livingstone, when Sir Harry Johnston 

 will give an address and there will be an 

 exhibition of Livingstone relics. At a date 

 not yet fixed Sir Clements Markham will give 

 an address in commemoration of the discovery 

 of the Pacific Ocean in 1513 by Balboa. 



The Rev. Dr. Walter W. Skeat, professor 

 of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge University, 

 died on October 7 at the age of seventy-seven 

 years. 



The state of Minnesota has engaged Dr. 

 Ernest B. Hoag, a health expert, to travel 

 about the state and demonstrate to the citi- 



zens that rational conservation of the mental 

 and physical health of children is possible and 

 practicable with the means already at hand. 

 Three plans are proposed: (1) Organization 

 with a medical officer and a nurse or nurses; 

 (2) organization with a school nurse or nurses 

 only; (3) organization by the employment of 

 a simple non-medical health survey on the 

 part of the teacher only. To make it possible 

 for every community, however small, to pos- 

 sess the necessary technical knowledge, the 

 state board of health will maintain at the 

 state capital a " clearing house of information 

 concerning child hygiene, medical supervision, 

 the teaching of school hygiene and the like." 



UNIVESSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



A hundred thousand dollars to endow 

 scholarships for young men has come to the 

 University of California through the decree 

 of final distribution for the estate of Mrs. 

 Carrie M. Jones, of Los Angeles. 



Mount Holyoke's alumnge committee re- 

 ports that its efforts to raise a half million 

 dollar fund for the college have met with suc- 

 cess. The committee has turned over to Pres- 

 ident Woolley vouchers for $552,000. Of this 

 amount $100,000 is to be devoted toward a 

 $125,000 student-alumnae building. 



The trustees of Columbia University an- 

 nounce that under the will of the late Au- 

 gustus W. Openhym an endowment had been 

 established for research work into the cause, 

 prevention and cure of cancer. The amount 

 of the gift was not made public, but it was 

 said the sum was considerable. If at any time 

 further research into cancer shall no longer be 

 necessary, Mr. Openhym's will stipulates that 

 the income may be used for research work in 

 any branch of medicine or surgery. The en- 

 dowment under Mr. Openhym's will is to be 

 known as the Openhym Research Fund, and 

 the terms of the gift are substantially the 

 same as those of the Crocker Research Fund 

 which amounts to $1,440,000. The authori- 

 ties of Columbia University plan to combine 

 the two endowments. 



On September 24 ground was broken, as we 

 learn from the Journal of the American Med- 



