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past four years, will hereafter represent 

 the University in l^ew York city and will 

 be as fully informed on all matters pertain- 

 ing to this oSice as are the officers resident 

 in Albany. He will have all publications, 

 blanks and necessary records for the accom- 

 modation of law, medical, dental and 

 veterinary students, and for all the profes- 

 sional, academic and higher examinations 

 conducted by the University. The action 

 of the last Legislature in largely increasing 

 the preliminary and professional examina- 

 tions under the regents has made a New 

 York office a necessity. The office at 10 

 East 42d street will be open after September 

 10, 1895. 



The University of Illinois, at Champaign, 

 opened on the 17th of September with one 

 thousand students. 



Dr. Walter M. Rankin and Dr. Charles 

 P. W. McClure have been appointed assist- 

 ant professors of biology in Princeton Col- 

 lege. 



It is stated that Dr. Nathaniel Butler, of 

 the University of Chicago, has decided to 

 accept the presidency of Colby University. 



Dr. Samuel Weir has been appointed 

 professor of the history of education and 

 ethics in the University of the City of New 

 York. 



It is proposed to open the new college 

 buildings of the University'' of the Citj^ of 

 New York on October 19th. Mayor Strong, 

 Chancellor of the University of the State of 

 New York, is invited to represent the East- 

 ern colleges. A speaker to represent the 

 colleges of the West and South will also be 

 invited. It is announced that gifts amount- 

 ing to between $50,000 and $60,000 have 

 been received by the University during the 

 summer. 



Henry B. Kummel, Ph. D. (Univei-sity 

 of Chicago, 1895), has been appointed as- 

 sistant geologist on the Geological Survey 

 of New Jersey. His address is Trenton, 



N. J., instead of the University of Chicago, 

 as heretofore. 



Union College began its one hundred 

 and first year on September 19th. The 

 Freshman Class numbers 100. Thirty candi- 

 dates were refused admission owing to lack 

 of room. 



The Freshman Class at Yale University 

 numbers .350 as compared with .338 last year. 

 Princeton College reports a slight increase 

 in the academic departments and a marked 

 decrease in the scientific departments. 



The Universitj^ of St. Andrews is build- 

 ing a hall of residence for its women students 

 on the lines of the Girton and Newnham 

 Colleges at Cambridge and the Oxford Halls 

 for AVomen. The fee for residence and 

 board for the winter university session of 

 six months will be £40, each student 

 having a separate room. There will 

 be 15 scholarships, all tenable for three 

 years. 



The official returns of Swiss universities 

 far the summer semester are reported in 

 The Lancet of September 14th. 3108 stu- 

 dents and 634 auditors attend the seven 

 universities. Of these students 440 study 

 theology, 648 law, 998 medicine, 1658 philo- 

 sophy (science and literature). Of the 

 3108 students 1774 ai'e Swiss, 504 German, 

 348 Russian, 131 Bulgarian, 56 French, 53 

 Austrian, 49 Roumanian, 39 Turkish, 39 

 Italian and 32 American. The greatest 

 number of students attend the Universi- 

 ties of Zurich and Geneva, the attendance 

 being 673 and 665 respectively. 



Dr. Herman Credner has been pro- 

 moted to a full professorship of geology and 

 paleontology at Leipzig, Dr. B. Weinstein 

 to a professorship of phj^sics at Berlin and 

 Dr. Max Vervorn to an assistant profes- 

 sorship of physiology at Jena. Dr. Vic- 

 tor Eberhard, of Konigsberg, has been 

 called to fill the chau- of mathematics at 

 Halle. 



