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ciently subdivided as is possible having regard 

 to the nature of the services for vphich they are 

 intended. The convention provides that all 

 merchant vessels of the contracting states 

 when engaged upon international (including 

 colonial) voyages, whether steamers or sailing 

 vessels, and whether they carry passengers or 

 not, must be equipped with wireless telegraphy 

 apparatus if they have on board fifty persons 

 or more (except where the number is excep- 

 tionally and temporarily increased to fifty or 

 more owing to causes beyond the master's 

 control). There are certain exemptions to 

 this regulation. A continuous watch for wire- 

 less telegraphy purposes is to be kept by all 

 vessels required to be fitted with wireless appa- 

 ratus, as soon as the government of the state 

 to which the vessels belong is satisfied that 

 such watch will be useful for the purpose of 

 saving life at sea. Meanwhile certain classes 

 of vessels are specified as being required to 

 maintain a continuous watch. The wireless 

 installations must have a range of at least 100 

 miles. A transition period is provided to en- 

 able wireless apparatus to be fitted and opera- 

 tors and watchers obtained. The convention 

 lays it down that there must be accommoda- 

 tion in lifeboats or their equivalents for all 

 persons on board, and that as large a number 

 as possible of the boats and rafts must be ca- 

 pable of being launched on either side of the 

 ship, so that as few as possible need be 

 launched on the weatherside. The convention 

 specifies a minimum number of members of 

 the crew competent to handle the boats and 

 rafts. All ships are to have an adequate sys- 

 tem of lighting, so that in an emergency the 

 passengers may easily find their way to the 

 exits from the interior of the ship. Ships of 

 the contracting states which comply with the 

 requirements of the convention are to have 

 furnished to them certificates of the fact, 

 which are to be accepted by all the states as 

 having the same value as the certificates is- 

 sued by them to their own ships. 



VNIVEBSIXr AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Lehigh University will receive about $800,- 



000 under an adjudication of the eleventh ac- 



count of the executors and trustees of the es- 

 tate of Asa M. Packer. 



The Mask and Wig Club of the University 

 of Pennsylvania has completed plans for the 

 erection of a residence, to be presented to the 

 university for the use of the provost. The 

 building will cost between $75,000 and $100,- 

 000. 



Miss Emily Matilda Easton has by her will 

 made a number of public bequests including 

 £10,000 to the College of Medicine of the Uni- 

 versity of Durham and £5,000 to Armstrong. 



Sir William Macdonald, of Montreal, has 

 been elected chancellor of McGill University, 

 in succession to the late Lord Strathcona. 



Dr. Forchheim, professor in the Graz Tech- 

 nological School, has accepted the commission 

 to organize a technical school at Constanti- 

 nople. 



The following appointments for the faculty 

 of George Peabody College for Teachers, the 

 new Teachers College of the South, have been 

 announced: Carter Alexander, Ph.D., pro- 

 fessor of school administration (formerly as- 

 sistant professor of educational administra- 

 tion. University of Missouri) ; Lula O. An- 

 drews, A.M., assistant professor of English 

 (formerly professor of English language. 

 State Normal School, Farmville, Va.) ; John 

 Lee Coulter, Ph.D., professor of rural eco- 

 nomics (at present with the United States 

 Census Bureau) ; Kary C. Davis, Ph.D., pro- 

 fessor of agriculture (formerly professor of 

 agronomy and principal of agricultural short 

 courses, of the State Agricultural College of 

 New Jersey) ; Frederic B. Dresslar, Ph.D., 

 professor of school architecture and hygiene 

 (formerly special agent of the United States 

 Bureau of Education) ; Charles E. Little, 

 Ph.D., professor of the teaching of Latin 

 (formerly professor of Latin in the old 

 Peabody College) ; Robert W. Selvidge, 

 A.M., professor of manual and industrial 

 arts (formerly professor of manual arts 

 at the University of Missouri) ; Edward K. 

 Strong, Jr., Ph.D., professor of psychology 

 and psychology of education (now in the de- 

 partment of psychology, Columbia Univer- 



