Mat 11, 1917] 



SCIENCE 



459 



On May 5 administrative officials of 180 

 leading institutions of learning in the United 

 States conferred with a committee of the Ad- 

 visory N"ational Defense Commission and ar- 

 ranged machinery for cooperation with the 

 government during the war. Secretary Baker 

 told the conference that important defense 

 work could be done by the schools of the 

 country, and the educators adopted resolutions 

 embodying plans for active service. The reso- 

 lutions recommended that the Bureau of Edu- 

 cation and the States' Relations Service pre- 

 pare a comprehensive policy of cooperation 

 between the government and the educational 

 institutions " which will make for the most 

 eilective use of these institutions throughout 

 the duration of the war." In a statement of 

 principles adopted the educators went on 

 record as believing that all colleges and uni- 

 versities should so modify their calendars and 

 ciu'ricula as to comply fully with the present 

 needs of the nation. 



At the annual meeting of the China Medical 

 Missionary Association of Yale University, in 

 January, Dr. Edward H. Hume presented a 

 comprehensive report upon the status of med- 

 ical education throughout the country, basing 

 his conclusions upon his recent inspection of 

 all the medical centers from Moukden to Can- 

 ton. 



The Minnesota legislature, recently ad- 

 journed, passed a law giving the Minnesota 

 State entomologist needed authority to com- 

 bat the white pine blister rust in that state, 

 and appropriated for his use $15,000 for the 

 bienniiun for fighting this disease. The U. S. 

 Government will also use in the state an 

 equal sum. It is hoped, with the legal ma- 

 chinery and the money available, the disease 

 can be stamped out where it occurs in a 

 limited area on the eastern boundary of the 

 state. 



A NUMBER of Akron rubber factories have 

 established at the Municipal University of 

 Altron thirty scholarships in the engineering 

 college to be chosen from high-school gradu- 

 ates ranking in the upper third of the class, 

 preference being given to graduates of Akron 



High Schools although others will also be re- 

 ceived. The scholarships will cover all tuition, 

 incidental and laboratory fees. Upon entrance 

 the scholarship holders will be assigned to a 

 course upon the cooperative basis, working 

 alternate two week periods in factory and col- 

 lege. Each student will receive from the com- 

 pany employing him the sum of $37.50 for 

 each two-week period during which he is em- 

 ployed. At the end of the four-year course the 

 graduate will have the opportunity of a perma- 

 nent position in the organization in which he 

 has been trained. 



A COURSE on laboratory organization and 

 management is offered in connection with the 

 summer session at Columbia University by 

 Professor Thomas B. Freas and Professor W. 

 L. Estabrooke. The course is planned to take 

 the students' full time for six weeks. The 

 subjects carried will be: location, laboratory 

 construction, ventilation, etc., of buildings; 

 laboratory equipment, including desks, lockers, 

 shops, gas, electricity, water, suction, liquid 

 and compressed air, balances, etc.; buying 

 from foreign and domestic markets, economic 

 and scientific handling of supplies; organiza- 

 tion of stockroom employees and their co- 

 operation with the teaching staff; glass blow- 

 ing by a professional glass blower will be a 

 special feature; a series of trips in and about 

 New York to manufacturing establishments, 

 industrial and imiversity laboratories, includ- 

 ing trips to Boston, Washington, Niagara 

 Ealls, Buffalo, Eochester, Syracuse and Phila- 

 delphia, in which there will be opportunity to 

 observe application of chemistry especially to 

 university, college and research laboratories. 



It is announced that an Italian who had long 

 made his home at' Marseilles has bequeathed 

 $7,000,000 to the city of Marseilles, mainly 

 for the purpose of founding and maintaining 

 a large hospital. 



The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of 

 Maryland has created a fund of $10,000, to be 

 known as the Osier Testimonial Fund, the in- 

 come of which is to be used for the purchase 

 of books for the faculty, library and for the 



