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UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
By the will of Thomas Armstrong, of Platts- 
burgh, Union College is to receive between 
$100,000 and $150,000. It is required that the 
college shall endow a chair of sociology and offer 
a certain number of annual prizes and scholar- 
ships for the sons of Clinton County farmers. 
Mr. Aucustus LOWELL has given the Massa- 
chusetts Institute of Technology $50,000, to be 
used as the nucleus of a fund, the income of 
which shall be used for the benefit of the teach- 
ing staff of the Institute in cases of illness, 
death or retirement. 
DaLTon HAut, the chemical laboratory of 
Johns Hopkins University, has been damaged 
by fire. The top floor was almost destroyed 
and much injury was caused to the lower floors 
by water. The loss being estimated at $12,000. 
Dr. THos. H. MonrGoMERy has been ap- 
pointed assistant professor of zoology in the 
University of Pennsylvania. 
At Cambridge University Mr. E. A. N. Arber, 
B.A., Trinity College, has been appointed de- 
monstrator in paleobotany in the place of Mr. 
H. Woods, resigned. 
Dr. WILHELM MuTHMAN, assistant profes- 
sor in the University of Munich, has been made 
professor of inorganic chemistry in the Poly- 
technic Institute. 
Dr. Orro vy. FurtH has qualified as docent 
in physiology in the university at Vienna, and 
Dr. Peter Polis for meteorology, and Dr. Mat 
Semper for anatomy in the Polytechnic Insti- 
tute at Aachen. 
AT the recent meeting of the Association of 
Colleges and Preparatory Schools of the Middle 
States and Maryland, a resolution was presented 
by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler,of Columbia Uni- 
versity, and adopted, providing that the Asso- 
ciation urge the early establishment of a joint 
college admission examination board, to be com- 
posed of representatives of colleges and prepara- 
tory schools in the Middle States and Maryland, 
and that the colleges be requested to cooperate 
in adopting a uniform standard of admission. 
CLEVELAND ABBE, JR., Ph.D. (Johns Hop- 
kins), and L. C. Glenn, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), 
are teaching physiography in South Carolina, 
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the former at the Winthrop Normal and In- 
dustrial College, Rock Hill, 8. C., and the latter 
at South Carolina College, Columbia, S.C. Dr. 
Abbe also conducted a very successful class at 
Rock Hill in the summer of 1899. Asa result 
of the support given to the subject and through 
the efforts of the instructors, a popular interest 
has been aroused that is most promising. It is 
hoped that continued effort may bring about a 
great betterment in geography teaching of all 
grades in the State. 
Ir will be remembered that the philosophical 
faculty of the University of Berlin refused to 
take action against Dr. Arons, docent for 
physics, who had been charged with taking 
part in socialist agitation. The minister of 
education thereupon appealed to the Court of 
second instance, presided over by the under- 
secretary of his own department and this Court 
now recommends that Dr. Arons should be de- 
prived of his right to deliver lectures. 
AN election to an Isaac Newton studentship. 
at Cambridge University will be held in the 
Lent term, 1900. The studentship is of the 
annual value of £200 and is tenable for three 
years. It is open to members of the university 
under the age of 25 years on January 1, 1900,. 
who have been admitted to the degree of B.A. 
It will be the duty of the student to devote 
himself during the tenure of the studentship to: 
study or research in some branch of astronomy 
or of physical optics, according to a course 
proposed by himself and approved by the elec- 
' tors. Candidates must send in'their applications 
with certificate of birth to the Vice-Chancellor 
between the 16th and 26th days of January 
next, together with testimonials and such other 
evidences as to their qualifications and their 
proposed course of study or research as they 
may think fit. Candidates are recommended 
to send with their applications an account of 
any work bearing on astronomy or physical 
optics on which they may have been engaged 
and to forward copies of any papers they may 
have published on those subjects. They should — 
also furnish the electors with a clear statement 
of the course of study or research which they 
propose to pursue during the tenure of the 
studentship. 
