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INIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
By the will of the late Lucy Ellis, of Boston, 
Harvard University is given real estate and 
made the residuary legatee. The money is to 
be used for the Medical School and is said to 
amount to more than $100,000. 
THE decennial exercises of Clark University 
were concluded on July 10th with an address 
by President G. Stanley Hall and shorter ad- 
dresses by Dr. W. H. P. Faunce, the newly 
elected President of Brown University, and 
Professor H. P. Bowditch, of Harvard Uni- 
versity. 
YALE University has bought, at an aggregate 
cost of $146,000, eight pieces of land on College 
Street, which it is reported will be used for the 
erection of an Alumni Hall. The purchase is 
important, because it joins the College campus 
with the Sheffield Scientific School. 
THE Senate of the University of London, at 
their meeting on July 5th, passed, by 21 votes 
to 6, the following resolution, proposed by Sir 
Edward Fry and seconded by Mr. Bryce: 
‘That the Senate accepts the proposal of her 
Majesty’s government, as far as it provides in 
buildings of the Imperial Institute accommoda- 
tion for the work hitherto done by the Univer- 
sity; and authorizes the committee consisting 
of the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor and Sir J. 
G. Fitch to settle the formal terms of agree- 
ment with the government, and the Senate 
reserves the right of the University to hereafter 
request the government to make further pro- 
vision for such further needs as may arise in the 
future.’’ 
A SPECIAL conference is now being held in St. 
Petersburg of all the University rectors, the 
guardians of educational districts, and the chief 
inspector of all the technical schools of Russia, 
under the presidency of the Minister of Public 
Instruction, to consider what can be done to im- 
prove the situation as regards the students. 
The proceedings are strictly secret, but it is re- 
ported by the Times that they will probably re- 
sult in some changes in the University statutes 
and regulations, giving the students more free- 
dom. Most of the students who were in prison 
in St. Petersburg have been released, but they 
are apparently being sent out of the capital. 
SCIENCE. 
[N.S. Vou. X. No. 238. 
There is no information as to what has been 
done with the arrested and banished students 
of other towns. It is felt that renewed trouble 
may be expected in the autumn and winter un- 
less some radical improvement is made. 
Dr. GEORGE E. MAcLEAN, Chancellor of the 
University of Nebraska since 1895, has accepted 
the presidency of the State University of lowa, 
and assumes the duties of his new position on 
August lst. The vacancy caused by his retire- 
ment from the University of Nebraska will be 
temporarily filled by Dr. Charles E. Bessey, 
who will be ‘Acting Chancellor’ until such 
time as the Regents elect a Chancellor. 
Dr. GEORGE T. WINsTON, President of the 
University of Texas, has sent in his resignation, 
to take effect September 15th next. Mr. Wins- 
ton will assume the presidency of the North 
Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical College, 
at Raleigh, N. C., on October 1st. The election 
of a President of the University of Texas and 
of a successor to the late Dr. W. W. Norman, 
professor of animal biology, have been deferred 
until September. 
SEVERAL changes have occurred in the mathe- 
matical department of the University of Texas. 
Dr. L. E. Dickson has been appointed associate 
professor. Dr. H. T. Benedict, of Vanderbilt 
University, and Mr. I. N. Putnam have been 
made instructors. Mr. Arthur Lefevreand Dr. 
M. B. Porter have resigned, the latter having 
been called to Yale University. In the same 
university Miss H. V. Whitten has been ap- 
pointed tutor in geology, and Dr. James R. 
Bailey has been promoted to an adjunct profes- 
sorship of chemistry. 
THE American Geologist states that Curtis F. 
Marbut, assistant professor in the Missouri 
State University, has been promoted to the full 
professorship of geology in that institution and 
has been granted a year’s leave of absence 
which he will spend in study and research 
abroad. 
Mr. J. Lewis McIntyre, a graduate of Edin- 
burgh and of Oxford, and at present lecturer 
in philosophy at Aberystwyth, succeeds Mr. 
Stout as lecturer in comparative psychology 
at Aberdeen. 
