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dents Commission, September 27 to 30. On 

 September 23, on the athletic field of the 

 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 

 there will be a mine-rescue demonstration at 

 10 o'clock; at 2 o'clock in the afternoon there 

 will be a first-aid demonstration; and at 4 

 o'clock a demonstration of the explosibility 

 of coal dust. On September 24, at 10 o'clock, 

 will be held a first-aid contest for inter-state 

 supremacy; at 2 in the afternoon a rescue 

 contest for inter-state supremacy; at 4 in the 

 afternoon a rock drilling contest, and at 8 

 o'clock in the evening, there will be an award 

 of prizes and souvenirs at the convention 

 hall. 



UNIVEB8ITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The Illinois legislature has passed a bill ap- 

 propriating $5,000,000 for the use of the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois for the biennium beginning 

 July 1, 1915. This amount lacks but little of 

 being the whole of the fund that has accumu- 

 lated in the state treasury from the one-mill 

 tax voted four years ago for the support of the 

 state university. 



By the will of Miss Helen Collamore, of 

 Boston, $100,000 is bequeathed to Simmons 

 College, $20,000 to Eadeliffe College and $10,- 

 000 primarily to aid women students in post- 

 graduate courses in the Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology. 



The General Education Board plans to enter 

 the field of educational research by assisting 

 workers of institutions of learning, as well as 

 ■supporting experiments and inquiries. Fur- 

 ther progress is reported in the project for 

 establishing an institute for training public 

 health workers. A model county organiza- 

 tion will be perfected in Mississippi, with the 

 cooperation of the state superintendent. Sev- 

 eral appropriations are also announced. Two 

 hundred thousand dollars are subscribed to the 

 Vassar College endowment fund, $125,000 to 

 that of Denison University, Granville, Ohio, 

 and $100,000 to Pomona College, Claremont, 

 Cal. The sum of $140,650 is appropriated for 

 the current year's work in developing second- 

 ary and rural schools for both white and Negro 

 races. The board has contributed $21,000 for 



continuing the farm demonstration work for 

 children's clubs in Maine and $10,000 in New 

 Hampshire, undertaken with the agricultural 

 colleges of these states. 



Professor R. J. Pool has been chosen by 

 the board of regents of the University of 

 Nebraska to be acting head of the department 

 of botany, to fill the place made vacant by the 

 death of Professor Charles E. Bessey. J. E. 

 Weaver, for two and one half years connected 

 with the botanical department of Washington 

 State College, and for the past year with the 

 botanical department of the University of 

 Minnesota, has been appointed assistant pro- 

 fessor of botany in the department. 



Dr. Joseph Peterson, the circumstances of 

 whose resignation from the chair of psychol- 

 ogy in the University of Utah have been noted 

 in this journal, has been appointed professor- 

 ial lecturer in the University of Minnesota. 

 Other appointments at Minnesota are: Elmer 

 J. Lund, assistant professor of zoology; Rob- 

 ert C. Ashby, assistant professor of animal 

 husbandry; Jean MacKinnon, assistant pro- 

 fessor of nutrition; Lucile Wheeler, assistant 

 professor of foods and cookery; Merritt R. 

 Grose, instructor in chemistry, and John 0. 

 West, instructor in physical education. 



De. George W. Corner, now on the staif 

 for gynecology of Johns Hopkins University, 

 has been appointed assistant professor of 

 anatomy, and I. 0. Hall, formerly of the 

 Cutter laboratories, assistant professor of 

 bacteriology, in the University of California. 



At the University of Illinois Robert Stew- 

 art, professor of chemistry in the Utah Agri- 

 cultural College has been appointed associate 

 professor of soil fertility and assistant chief 

 in soil fertility in the Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station. Gilbert Gussler, of the Uni- 

 versity of Ohio, has been appointed associate 

 in animal husbandry in the College of Agri- 

 culture. R. D. Carmichael, of the Univer- 

 sity of Indiana, has been appointed to be as- 

 sistant professor of mathematics in the uni- 

 versity. 



Lee R. Dice, Ph.D. (California, '15), has 

 been appointed instructor in zoology at the 

 Kansas State Agricultural College. 



