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ical Association, by Dr. Edgar F. Smith, pro- 

 vost of the University of Pennsylvania, and 

 former Mayor Weaver, for the Thomas W. 

 Evans Museum and Dental Institute, at 

 Fortieth and Spruce Streets. The ceremonies 

 vpere attended by the deans of the University 

 of Pennsylvania, members of the faculty of 

 the University Dental School, representatives 

 of the various dental alumni associations and 

 the French and English consuls. The build- 

 ing is expected to be completed in the fall of 

 1913 and, according to the plans, will be the 

 largest and best equipped dental school in the 

 world, supported by an endowment of $600,000. 

 The building will cost about $500,000. The 

 Museum and Dental Institute will be under 

 the administration of the university. Dr. 

 Evans, the famous Paris dentist in Louis Na- 

 poleon's reign, was a former Philadelphian 

 who died in Paris in 1897. 



In conjunction with the state department of 

 health, the medical school of the University 

 of Wisconsin has established a course extend- 

 ing over one year and leading to a diploma in 

 public health. This course will be open only 

 to those who have received a degree in medi- 

 cine or a degree in medical or sanitary sci- 

 ence. The full course for the present college 

 year includes work in nine different fields and 

 is intended to give a comprehensive survey of 

 public health work. How certain diseases may 

 be transferred from animals to man, and how 

 to combat diseases resulting from employment 

 at unhealthful occupations, are two of the 

 things that will be studied. To show students 

 the results of improper lighting and ventila- 

 tion systems in factories and school houses, 

 etc., special trips will be made by the class. 

 Inspection trips to slaughter houses, meat 

 markets, dairy barns and other places which 

 may have a vital efFect upon the health of a 

 community will also be made. 



The forty-first session of the College of 

 Medicine of Syracuse University began Oc- 

 tober 1 with 31 students registered in the en- 

 tering class and three entered with advanced 

 standing. At the opening exercises Chancellor 



James R. Day spoke to the students and Pro- 

 fessor Henry L. Eisner gave the opening ad- 

 dress, " Traditions and Ideals." Dean Hef- 

 fron announced the changes that had been 

 made in courses and in instructors, most im- 

 portant of which were: The creation of an 

 independent department of bacteriology, to 

 the head of which Professor Leverett Dale 

 Bristol, A.B. (Wesleyan), M.D. (Johns Hop- 

 kins), was called from Minneapolis. The 

 election of Earl V. Sweet, A.B. (Colgate), 

 M.D. (Cornell), as instructor in histology. 

 The election of Mr. John R. Eice, B.S. (Wes- 

 leyan), to be instructor in the department of 

 hygiene and preventive medicine and assist- 

 ant in the Municipal Laboratory. The elec- 

 tion of Albert G. Swift, M.D. (Syracuse), of 

 New York City, to be instructor in clinical 

 surgery. The election of John W. Cox, M.D. 

 (Syracuse), as instructor in pathology. Dr. 

 Frank P. Knowlton, professor of physiology, 

 has returned from a year's leave of absence 

 spent in the University of Cambridge and 

 University College, London. A plan was in- 

 augurated by which each student shall have 

 control of a special microscope which he shall 

 own at the end of his course. The contract 

 for the new College Dispensary has been let 

 and work has begun on the building. 



Dr. Edward Thompson Fairchild, of Law- 

 rence, Kans., superintendent of public in- 

 struction of that state and president this year 

 of the National Education Association, has 

 been elected president of the New Hampshire 

 College. 



The vacancy in the department of philos- 

 ophy at De Pauw University caused by the 

 resignation of Dr. William Q. Seaman, who 

 has been elected president of Dakota Wesleyan 

 University, has been filled by the election of 

 Frederick M. Harvey, Ph.D. (Boston, '11). 



Glen Z. Brown, Ph.D. (Penna.), has been 

 appointed professor in chemistry in Bucknell 

 University. 



At the University of Minnesota many new 

 appointments have been made. Robert B. 

 Gibson has been made assistant professor of 

 physiologic chemistry; Walter E. Camp and 



