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SCIENCE 



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residence quadrangle system in the proposed 

 development of the campus, and the founda- 

 tions of the buildings are now being laid. 

 Five of these houses will be owned by fra- 

 ternities, and will be gifts of the alumni to 

 the university for the use of their respective 

 chapters. The nine buildings will accommo- 

 date nearly three hundred men, and will be 

 open to students in the Evanston schools and 

 also to those in the professional schools in 

 Chicago. Buildings to be completed within 

 the next two years will cost about $350,000. 

 Alumni have agreed to give about $222,000 of 

 this sum for the construction of houses for 

 their fraternities. 



The new household arts and science build- 

 ing at the College of Industrial Arts, Denton, 

 Texas, which is now in the course of erection 

 at an expenditure of over $75,000, will be 

 completed in the early spring. This building 

 will be devoted exclusively to applied science 

 and art as they relate to the home. Provision 

 has been made for laboratories of food chem- 

 istry, textile chemistry and experimental diet- 

 etics. Also rooms are provided for mechan- 

 ical drawing and home architecture, including 

 china painting, clay modeling, pottery and 

 other phases of ceramics. An auditorium 

 with a seating capacity of about 1,100 is also 

 included. The formal opening in April will 

 also be designed to celebrate the tenth anni- 

 versary of the college, and several noted scien- 

 tific men will be invited to be present and 

 make addresses. 



The Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Har- 

 vard University has established a degree with 

 distinction in natural history. The work of 

 candidates for this degree will be supervised 

 by a committee consisting of the chairmen of 

 the divisions of geology and biology. The 

 requirements for this degree are eight courses 

 in the sciences, at least six of which must be 

 in the divisions of geology and biology. Of 

 the courses so designated, not less than three 

 must be in the middle or higher groups; and 

 not less than one must be taken in each of the 

 divisions of geology and biology. 



In the department of geology at the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, Albert Dudley Brokaw has 

 been made an instructor in mineralogy and 

 economic geology. 



Mr. Wilhelm Miller has been appointed 

 assistant professor of landscape horticulture 

 at the University of Illinois. The name of 

 the appointee was incorrectly given in a recent 

 issue of Science. 



In the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, 

 Canada, the following promotions have been 

 made: E. C. Wallace, Ph.D., D.Sc, to be pro- 

 fessor of geology and mineralogy; R. K. Mc- 

 Clung, D.Sc, to be assistant professor of 

 physics; L. A. H. Warren, M.A., to be as- 

 sistant professor of mathematics. The fol- 

 lowing new appointments have been made: 

 E. W. Moffat, B.A.Sc., of the faculty of ap- 

 plied science of Toronto University, to be 

 lecturer in masonry construction and draw- 

 ing; E. E. Bankson, B.S., the University of 

 Pittsburgh, to be lecturer in materials and 

 hydraulics. 



DISCUSSION AND COSBESPONDENCE 

 PROFESSOR DE GROOT ON AMERICAN SINOLOGY 



European scholars justly reproach us for 

 our lack of interest in and knowledge of the 

 far east. We admit that our position in this 

 regard is not what it should be, but we claim 

 to have made a beginning, and that, too, on 

 sound lines, and we feel that we should have 

 the credit for this. At any rate, we are not 

 prepared for the insolent criticism recently 

 passed upon us by Professor J. J. M. de Groot, 

 lately of Leiden, now professor of Chinese 

 in the University of Berlin. Professor de 

 Groot is a self-styled sinologue. We are quite 

 content that that type of sinology is not rep- 

 resented in this country, and we trust never 

 wiU be. The present state of mental stagna- 

 tion and petrifaction in sinology, justly ridi- 

 culed by the world at large, owes much to such 

 pseudo-scholars of the oil lamp who must be 

 regarded as relics of a past age. Professor de 

 Groot no doubt can read a Chinese sentence; 

 but that would seem about aU. He certainly 



