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SCIENCE 



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valued at $15,204,539 came into this country 

 from foreign lands, thus bringing the total 

 value of imports as designated above up to 

 $33,869,951. 



UNIVEBSITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie's gifts to the Car- 

 negie Institute and Institute of Technology 

 have now reached a total of $27,000,000, his 

 latest contribution announced at Founder's 

 Day, on April 29, being $2,700,000. Of this 

 latter amount $1,200,000 is for new buildings 

 and $1,500,000 for endowment. The address 

 at the Founder's Day exercises was delivered 

 by Dr. Eomulo S. ISTaon, the Argentine ambas- 

 sador, who spoke on " The Triumph of True 

 Pan- Americanism and Its Relation to World 

 Peace." 



The campaign to raise $1,385,000 for the 

 Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, 

 N. J., has been successfully concluded. The - 

 entire indebtedness of the college, amounting 

 to $385,000 has been cancelled, leaving 

 $1,000,000 to be used for the erection of 

 new buildings and for endowment. 



The University of Pennsylvania, Columbia 

 University and the Stevens School of Tech- 

 nology mechanical engineering departments 

 have received funds amounting to $5,000 each, 

 in accordance with the provisions of the will 

 of the late Admiral George W. Melville. 



Gifts amounting to $72,908, to be devoted 

 to cancer research at the Harvard Medical 

 School, have been announced. Of this sum 

 $50,000 is provided by the will of Philip C. 

 Lockwood, of Boston. 



The new buildings of the medical school of 

 Washington University, St. Louis, were dedi- 

 cated on April 29. The three large buildings, 

 which contain laboratories, dispensaries, lec- 

 ture rooms and libraries, cost $1,200,000 and, 

 with the new Barnes Hospital, the St. Louis 

 Children's Hospital and St. John's Hospital, 

 form an important group of buildings devoted 

 to medical and surgical purposes. Addresses 

 were delivered by Dr. William Henry Welch, 

 professor of pathology at Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity; by President A. L. Lowell, of Har- 

 vard University; by Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, 



president of the Carnegie Foundation for the 

 Advancement of Teaching, and by President 

 George E. Vincent, of the University pf 

 Minnesota. 



The University of South Dakota has com- 

 pleted the erection of a fireproof chemical 

 laboratory at a cost of $100,000. 



The thirty-fourth session of the legislature 

 of Nebraska recently adjourned appropriated 

 the sum of $150,000 for the erection of a teach- 

 ing hospital on the campus of the University 

 of Nebraska College of Medicine at Omaha, 

 Nebraska. The appropriation has been ap- 

 proved by the governor. 



The tuition fee at Harvard University has 

 been increased to $200, which will take effect 

 at the beginning of the year 1916-17, but will 

 not apply to a student now registered, unless 

 he changes his department. No infirmary, 

 laboratory or graduation fees wiU be charged. 



Professor Ira C. Baeer has resigned his 

 position as head of the civil engineering de- 

 partment of the University of Illinois, which 

 he has held for thirty-four years. He will 

 continue to give a limited number of courses. 

 Dr. F. H. Newell, consulting engineer of the 

 U. S. Eeclamation Service, has been appointed 

 to succeed Professor Baker as head of the de- 

 partment of civil engineering. He entered 

 upon his work at the university on May 1. 



Dr. Andrew Hunter, of the medical depart- 

 ment of Cornell University, has accepted an 

 appointment to the chair of pathological 

 chemistry in the University of Toronto. 



Dr. a. a. Knowlton, associate professor of 

 physics at the University of Utah, has been 

 elected professor of physics at Reed CoUege. 

 It will be remembered that Dr. Knowlton was 

 not reelected at the University of Utah be- 

 cause of the president's charge that he had 

 made remarks unfavorable to the administra- 

 tion of the university. President Foster of 

 Reed College went to Salt Lake City to inves- 

 tigate the situation. He talked with both fac- 

 tions of the board of regents, with many mem- 

 bers of the faculty, including those who have 

 resigned and those who have not, with other 

 citizens, with students and with the president. 



