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classical studies. He said that the high schools 
could not be expected to teach Greek, and that 
the colleges must accept the preparation given 
in the high school. ‘‘Granting that culture is 
the primary object of education, it does not fol- 
low that there is only one kind of discipline, as 
the classical—that the ancient languages and 
mathematics are the only regimen for making 
the man of letters. The equation of culture 
may have for its second term almost any actual 
knowledge.’’ When study of the classical lan- 
guage ‘‘ degenerates into mere language drill, 
and when thousands, in fact, never get beyond 
that, or cannot read a passage at sight, the value 
of such study is not obvious. Allow, however, 
the full worth of the classical discipline. Yet 
even so there are other studies now of equal or 
greater value.’’ 
THE inauguration of President Faunce, of 
Brown University, took place on October 17th. 
Addresses were delivered by Presidents Patton, 
Harper, Elliott and Faunce. 
THE Council of the University of Melbourne 
will shortly appoint a professor to the chair of 
geology and mineralogy. Natural Science states 
that the professor is expected to devote the 
whole of his time to the work of his depart- 
ment, and will be required to deliver two 
courses of lectures of three hours a week each, 
and to undertake the training of students both 
in field and laboratory work. The salary of 
the professor is £1,000 per annum, but in the 
event of the Council providing him with a resi- 
dence in the University grounds, the sum of 
£100 per annum will be deducted from his 
salary as aforesaid. The University has a fair 
collection in paleontology and mineralogy, but 
has no specially fitted up laboratory for geo- 
logical work. A suitable room in the University 
buildings will be provided in which to organize 
this part of'the work. Lectures begin in 1900, 
on Thursday, March ist. The salary of the 
office will commence from the 14th February, 
1900, or from the date of the Professor’s arrival 
in Melbourne, if later than the 14th February. 
If the professor appointed come from Britain or 
America, £100 will be allowed for travelling 
expenses. 
Proressor J. B. JOHNSON was inaugurated 
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as Dean of the College of Mechanics and Engi- 
neering of the University of Wisconsin on Oc- 
tober 18th. 
Mr. CLARK WISSLER, of Ohio State Univer- 
sity, has been appointed assistant in psychology 
in Columbia University. 
Dr. Merton L. MILLER has been appointed 
to an associateship in anthropology in the Uni- 
versity of Chicago. 
DANIEL P. MACMILLAN, PH.D., 799, has re- 
ceived an appointment in the Child-study De- 
partment which was recently created in the 
public schools of Chicago. 
TuE following have been appointed instruc- 
tors in zoology in the University of Michigan: 
Dr. H. 8. Jennings (last year instructor at Dart- 
mouth), Dr. S. J. Holmes and Dr. K. W. Genthe 
(Leipzig). 
Dr. J. B. JOHNSTON (last year instructor in 
zoology at the University of Michigan) has be- 
come assistant professor of biology at the Uni- 
versity of West Virginia, Morgantown. 
H. W. F. Lorenz, A.B. (Wittenberg), and 
Ph.D. (Berlin), has just assumed the position of 
instructor in organic chemistry in the Univer- 
sity of Pennsylvania. Dr. Lorenz is the trans- 
lator of Léb’s Organic Electrosyntheses. 
W. L. Harpy, S.B. (Buchtel College), Ph.D. 
(University of Pennsylvania), who held the 
position of fellow and later senior fellow in 
chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania, 
has recently been appointed to an instructor- 
ship in the same institution. Heis the author 
of ‘Liquefaction of Gases’ recently published 
by Macmillan & Company. 
Jos. H. JAmrs, Ph.D. (University of Penn- 
sylvania), has just been appointed acting. pro- 
fessor of chemistry in Buchtel College, Akron, O. 
Gro. E..THomas, 8.B., Ph.D. (University of 
Pennsylvania), has been elected instructor in 
chemistry in Swarthmore College, Pa. 
Miss Lity G. Koiiock, A.B., (Woman’s 
College), Ph.D. (University .of Pennsylvania), 
has been appointed to an instructorship in 
chemistry in Vassar College. 
Herpert N. McCoy, Ph.D. (Chicago), has 
been appointed instructor in chemistry in the 
University of Utah. 
