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Professor John M. Coulter, of the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, gave the students of the 

 Western College and their guests an address 

 at the annual College Day festivities. Pro- 

 fessor Coulter told of the power of social 

 service in the individual life and how the in- 

 dividual ideal was changing, including in its 

 conception the welfare of others in ways little 

 known a decade ago. The laying of the cor- 

 ner stone of the new gymnasium was part of 

 the ceremonies. Honorable Eobert S. Fulton, 

 of Cincinnati, made the principal address. 

 He was followed by members of the alumnse, 

 by Honorable J. S. Crowell, president of the 

 board of trustees, and by Mary A. Sawyer, 

 acting president of the college. 



The seventy-fifth anniversary of the found- 

 ing of Mount Holyoke College was celebrated 

 on October 8 and 9. The program on Tues- 

 day consigted of alumnae commemoration 

 exercises in Mary Lyon chapel, with a pageant 

 on the green in the afternoon. On Wednes- 

 day occurred the intercollegiate exercises in 

 the outdoor auditorium including the dedi- 

 cation of the new memorial gateway. Of the 

 fourteen honorary degrees conferred on this 

 occasion the following names are noted. Dr. 

 Mary Almira Smith, of Boston, D.Sc. The 

 degree of LL.D. was conferred on President 

 Alexander Meildejohn, of Amherst College, 

 Katharine Bement Davis, superintendent of 

 Bedford Reformatory, Bedford, N. T., Julia 

 Clifford Lathrop, head of the Children's 

 Bureau, Washington, D. C, and Lillian N. 

 Wald, head of the Henry-Street Settlement in 

 New York. 



The following new buildings have just been 

 occupied or are in course of construction at 

 the University of Minnesota: the Listitute of 

 Anatomy, housing the departments of com- 

 parative anatomy and human anatomy; the 

 new Millard Hall, providing quarters for the 

 department of physiology and the department 

 of medicine; the Main Engineering Building 

 for mechanical and civil engineering, a me- 

 chanical laboratory for the same departments ; 

 a new laboratory for the school of chemistry; 

 a Mechanic Arts Building with shops for the 



department of architecture; a new dairy barn 

 for the division of animal husbandry. 



Cornell University Medical College 

 opened on Wednesday, October 2, 1912, with 

 an enrollment as follows : for the degree of 

 M.D., first year, 39; second year, 24; third 

 year, 20; fourth year, 19; special students 

 (work not leading to the degree of M.D.), 5; 

 doctors in medicine engaged in research, 7 ; 

 for the degree of Ph.D., 2; making a total of 

 116 students. There is an increase over last 

 year of 15 students in the enrollment for the 

 course leading to the degree of M.D. All stu- 

 dents now registered, with the exception of 

 those who are pursuing the combined seven- 

 year courses leading to the degrees of A.B. 

 and M.D. are graduates in arts or sciences, 

 or doctors of medicine doing advanced work. 



Dr. Edward Bradford Titchener, who has 

 been Sage professor of psychology in the 

 graduate school of Cornell University, has 

 now been appointed head of the department 

 of psychology and lecturer in the College of 

 Arts and Sciences. He will give this year a 

 course of lectures in elementary psychology. 



Samuel Weiller Fernberger, Ph.D., in- 

 structor in psychology in the University of 

 Pennsylvania, has accepted a similar position 

 at Clark University. 



Mr. F. C. Ayers, a graduate fellow last 

 year of the University of Chicago, has gone 

 to the University of Oregon as the head of 

 the department of education. 



Dr. L. R. Littleton, A.B. (Southern Uni- 

 versity, '07), M.A. (Tulane, '10), Ph.D. (Uli- 

 nois, '12), has been appointed instructor in 

 chemistry at Grinnell College to succeed Leon- 

 ard M. Liddle, Ph.D. (Yale, '09), who has ac- 

 cepted a fellowship in industrial chemistry at 

 the University of Pittsburgh. Mr. J. F. Man- 

 gold, B.S. (Cornell College, '07, CE., '10), has 

 resigned the position of instructor in mechan- 

 ical engineering at the Mississippi Agricul- 

 tural and Mechanical College, to accept an 

 assistant professorship in engineering at Grin- 

 nell College. He succeeds Mr. L. D. Nors- 

 worthy, who has been elected to an instructor- 

 ship at Columbia University. 



