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A stupy of the effect of pressure on the 
preservation of milk at the Experiment Station 
of West Virginia University gave such en- 
couraging results that the effect of the same 
agent in preserving fruits and fruit juices is be- 
ing studied now while these are in season. It 
is yet too soon to say whether the work will 
lead to a practical method for preserving these 
materials, but it may be said, however, that 
samples have been prevented from fermenting 
for five months; also that milk has been kept 
for three months and meats for seven months. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
Mr. Epwarp Tuck, of New York City, has 
given $300,000 to Dartmouth College to be used 
for purposes of instruction. 
By the will of Mrs. Mary D. Goddard, of 
Newton, Mass., $60,000 is given to Tufts Col- 
lege. 
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY has received from 
Mr. Stafford Little, of Trenton, N. J., $10,000 
to endow a lectureship on themes connected 
with public life. Ex-president Cleveland will, 
during the coming year, deliver the first course 
of lectures. 
THE medical students of Bowdoin College will 
receive instruction during their last year at 
Portland, where suitable buildings are now be- 
ing erected, and where they will have improved 
clinical facilities. After 1900 the course will 
be four years in length, the first two years be- 
ing spent at Brunswick, and the second two 
years at Portland. 
THE following appointments are announced 
at Dartmouth College: Dr. Gorden F. Hull, of 
Colorado College, to be assistant professor of 
physics; Mr. George T. Moore, assistant in 
Harvard University, to be instructor in botany ; 
and H: H. Horne to be instructor in philosophy. 
SAMUEL AVERY, B.Sc. and A.M. (Nebraska). 
and Ph.D. (Heidelberg), for some years ad- 
junct professor of chemistry in the University 
of Nebraska, has accepted the professorship of 
chemistry in the University of Idaho. The po- 
sition left vacant at Nebraska has been filled by 
the appointment, as instructor, of Robert Silver 
Hellner, B.Sc., A.M., assistant chemist in the 
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Nebraska Experiment Station. Mr. Roscoe 
Wilfred Thatcher, B.Sc. (Nebraska), has been 
appointed successor to Mr. Hiltner. 
PROMOTIONS and changes, as follows, were 
made this year in the force of the Zoological 
Department at the University of Nebraska, 
Lincoln: Henry B. Ward, professor; Robert 
H. Wolcott, adjunct professor ; Albert B. Lewis, 
assistant instructor; Frank E. Watson, fellow 
and graduate assistant. 
Mr. PETER FIELD, fellow in mathematics in 
Cornell University, has been appointed professor 
of mathematics in Carthage College. 
Mr. Epwin HaAviLAnp, B.S. (Swarthmore, 
1895), and A.M. (Cornell, 1899), has been ap- 
pointed assistant in mathematics in Swarthmore 
College. 
Proressor W. H. Squires, who holds the 
chair of psychology and pedagogics in Hamilton 
College, has been given a two years’ leave of 
absence, which he will spend in study in Ger- 
many, W. B. Elkin, Ph.D. (Cornell), Teachers 
College, Columbia University, has been ap- 
pointed acting professor. 
AT Brown University, Frederic P. Gorham, 
biology, Ralph W. Tower, chemical physiology, 
and Arthur E. Watson, physics, have been 
promoted to assistant professorships. 
FRANK T. DANIELS, assistant professor of 
civil engineering, at Tufts College, has resigned. 
JAMES P. C. SOUTHALL, of the University of 
Virginia, has been appointed instructor in 
physics at Hobart College; Lindsay Duncan 
has been made instructor in mathematics, sur- 
veying and draughting at Union College. At 
Smith College, Annie Lyons has been ap- 
pointed assistant in zoology. 
THE following appointments as instructors, 
at Lehigh University, have been made: Robert 
M. Wilson, E.E. (Cornell), Barry MacNutt 
M.S. (Lehigh), and J. 8. Viehe, E.H. (Lehigh), 
to be instructors in electrical engineering ; Her- 
man Schneider, B.S. (Lehigh), to be instructor 
in civil engineering, and Amasa Trowbridge, 
Ph.B. (Sheffield Scientific School), and chief 
engineer, U.S. S., Catskill, during the late war, 
to be instructor in mechanical engineering. 
