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America, of teaching drawing by the use of the 
blackboard, both hands being employed. Mr. 
H. H. Cunynghame, who has devoted a great 
deal of attention to’ the subject, will give a 
course of Cantor Lectures before Christmas on 
the art of enamelling. It is intended to dem- 
onstrate practically the whole process ef enam- 
el-making during the course. The Juvenile 
Lectures will be by Mr. Herbert Jackson, of 
King’s College, who will lecture on phosphor- 
escence. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
THE San Francisco Call says it is understood 
that the money, amounting to $11,400,000, ob- 
tained by Mrs. Jane Stanford for her 285,000 
shares of Southern Pacific stock, which she sold 
recently, will-at once be made available for the 
use of the Stanford University. The Library, 
the gift of T. W. Stanford, and the Assembly 
Hall, are now ready for occupancy. 
WiiuiaAmM H. Wess founder of Webb Acad- 
emy and Home for Shipbuilders, New York 
city, has by his will left to the Academy the 
reversion of the larger part of his estate valued 
at over $600,000. He has also left directly to 
the Academy his paintings, drawings, books, 
etc., relating to shipbuilding. 
Mr. JAMES JENNINGS McComs of New York, 
one of the founders of the Southwestern Pres- 
byterian University at Clarksville, Tenn., has 
given $70,000 to the endowment fund, making 
his contributions amount in all to $100,000. 
Brown UNIVERSITY has received an uncondi- 
tional gift of ten thousand dollars from the 
heirs of the late Lucian Sharpe. 
THE Rey. John Pike has left the reversion of 
half his property to found two scholarships in 
Bowdoin College. 
Ir is announced that architects’ plans are now 
being considered by the corporation of Yale 
University for the memorial building which it 
is planned to erect before the bi-centennial ex- 
ercises in 1901. The building will contain a 
dining hall and an auditorium, and will cost 
$750,000, of which sum over $400,000 has been 
subscribed. The building will be at the corner 
of Grove and College Streets. 
THE Wilmerding School of Industrial Arts, 
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which the regents of the University of Cali- 
fornia have established in accord with the will 
of the late J. C. Wilmerding, will be opened for 
instruction on January 8, 1900. 
A PLAN submitted by Professor Hanus of 
Harvard University, to the Cambridge School 
Board, according to which a certain num- 
ber of Harvard students should be allowed 
to undertake practice teaching in the public 
schools, and teachers should have the privilege 
of taking courses at Harvard, has been rejected 
by the board. 
THE courses of lectures in the sciences at Ox- 
ford University for the present term number 
41, distributed as follows: physics 6, chem- 
istry 10, geology 3, mineralogy 3, zoology 7, 
physiology 10, botany 1, anthropology 1. As 
these courses include both elementary and 
advanced work, and many of them are only one 
hour a week, it is evident that Oxford does not 
compare favorably with the scientific work of 
other great universities. 
THE Archeological Institute of America of- 
fers six fellowships for next year. Three for 
work to be done at Athens and three at Rome. 
Further information can be obtained from Dr. 
C. H. Young, Secretary, Columbia University. 
Mrs. ELIZABETH CARY AGAssIz has resigned 
the presidency of Radcliffe College, but has 
consented to accept the position of honorary 
president. 
Dr. H.S. LEAKE has been appointed instruc- 
tor in anatomy in Williams College, to take the 
place of the late Professor Woodbridge. Dr. 
Leake is a graduate of Williams College and of 
the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New 
York City. : 
In accordance with the new law permitting 
French universities to establish professorships 
for which the means are at hand, two new pro- 
fessorships have been established under the 
faculty of sciences at the Sorbonne, a chair of 
histology, to which M. Chatin has been as- 
signed, and a second chair of physics, to which 
M. Pellat has been assigned. The chair of 
chemistry, vacant by the death of M. Friedel, 
has not been filled, but M. Chabrié is giving 
the courses. 
