NOVEMBEE 1, 1912] 



SCIENCE 



593 



VNIVEMSITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Mr. J. PiERPONT Morgan has given $200,000 

 to Trinity College for the erection of a library 

 and administration building. 



Mr. James B. Brady, of New York City, 

 has given $200,000 for the establishment of 

 the TJrological Institute at the Johns Hopkins 

 Hospital. He has also undertaken to provide 

 an endowment for the institute. 



The sum of $60,000 has been given by an 

 anonymous New York citizen toward the 

 $800,000 which Smith College is undertaking 

 to obtain in order to receive $200,000 from the 

 General Education Board. 



The new library building of the Ohio State 

 University, built at a cost of $250,000, is near- 

 ing completion. While an additional appro- 

 priation will be needed to complete the equip- 

 ment, the greater part of the library, which 

 consists now of more than 115,000 volumes, 

 will be moved into the new building within a 

 few weeks. 



Work on the stone foundation of the new 

 University of Illinois armory is well under 

 way. The interior dimensions of the armory 

 will be 200 by 350 feet. The building under 

 construction is not the complete building, but 

 merely the drill room. 



St. Louis University is building an addi- 

 tion to the Medical School, which will accom- 

 modate the offices and library and new labora- 

 tories for animal experimentation. It will 

 cost about $10,000. 



The dean of Johns Hopkins Medical School 

 announces that it has become necessary to 

 limit the number of students owing to the 

 limited space and facilities in the various 

 laboratories. The present enrollment is 355, 

 the largest in the history of the school, and 

 fifty other students were refused admittance 

 prior to the beginning of the session. 



The enrollment of students in the Ohio 

 State University this year is 3,243, of whom 

 780 are in the College of Engineering. 



Several members of the faculty of Western 

 Eeserve University will receive in certain 

 special classes, during the semester October, 

 1912, to February, 1913, men and women who 



are teachers of the high schools and other 

 schools of Cleveland and vicinity, and others ■ 

 interested in such courses. 



Thomas Wingate Todd, M.B., Ch.B., 

 F.R.C.S., at present lecturer in anatomy at 

 Victoria University, Manchester, England, 

 has been appointed Henry Willson Payne 

 professor of anatomy in the medical depart- 

 ment of Western Reserve University. Pro- 

 fessor Todd will take up his duties at Cleve- 

 land about December 10. 



Dr. Charles Lincoln Edwards has been 

 appointed professor of embryology and histol- 

 ogy in the medical department of the Univer- 

 sity of Southern California, and has been 

 made director of the department of nature- 

 study in the Los Angeles public schools. 



The Ohio State University, Columbus, has 

 the following new members in the faculty of 

 the College of Engineering: Forrest K. Pence, 

 professor of ceramic engineering; A. E. 

 Flowers, professor of electrical engineering, 

 and E. A. Brown, instructor in electrical 

 engineering. The following members have 

 been promoted to the rank of professor: 

 Homer F. Staley, ceramic engineering; James 

 R. Wi throw, chemistry; Robert F. Earhart, 

 physics; Frederic C. Blake, physics; Samuel 

 J. Barnett, physics, and Edwin F. Oodding- 

 ton, mechanics. 



The following changes have been made in 

 the faculty of the New York State Normal 

 College at Albany: Dr. Leonard A. Blue, 

 formerly professor of education at Goucher 

 College, has been appointed dean and pro- 

 fessor of education in place of Dr. William B. 

 Aspinwall, who resigned to become principal 

 of the State Normal School at Worcester, 

 Mass.; Dr. George S. Painter has been ap- 

 pointed professor of philosophy and psychol- 

 ogy to succeed Professor Alfred J. Eejall, now 

 assistant in psychology at Columbia Univer- 

 sity; Professor Herbert M. Douglass, formerly 

 of Cornell University, has been appointed in- 

 structor in mathematics and mechanical 

 drawing. 



The following recent appointments in St. 

 Louis University School of Medicine have 



