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salt tidal water had an injurious effect on the 
bacteria contained in the effluent. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
By the will of Henry Villard, Harvard Uni- 
versity and Columbia University each receive 
$50,000. Among other public bequests is one 
of $5,000 to the American Museum of Natural 
History. 
Ripon CoLLEGE dedicated its new science 
building, Ingram Hall, on December 18th. The 
keys of the building were presented to the 
trustees by the principal donor, Mr. O. H. 
Ingram, of Hau Claire, and received, with a 
fitting response by President Flagg. The prin- 
cipal address of the occasion was by Professor 
John M. Coulter, of the University of Chicago, 
on ‘Some College Fallacies.’ The building, 
which has been completed this fall, cost about 
$33,000, of which sum Mr. Ingram gave nearly 
$18,000 and Dr. Pearsons $5,000. The pleas- 
ant feature of the dedication exercises was a 
special gift by Mr. Ingram which wiped out a 
small debt remaining upon the building and al- 
lowed about $1,300 to be applied to the equip- 
ment. The building is three stories high and 
modern in all details of its construction. 
THE new building of the Medical College of 
Cornell University was formally opened on 
December 29th. Addresses were made in the 
afternoon by President Schurman, Dr. Stimp- 
son, professor of surgery in the College, and 
Governor Roosevelt. In the evening, the new 
building was open to invited visitors. 
Dr. D. K. PEARsons has given Colorado Col- 
lege the $50,000 promised some time since, and 
it is reported that he has given Northwestern 
University $30,000 for the erection of a woman’s 
dormitory and $200,000 to an educational in- 
stitution, the name of which is not to be made 
public during his life time. A press dispatch 
from Chicago accounts for about two and a 
half million dollars given by Dr. Pearson mostly 
to educational institutions, and it is estimated 
that the sum of about five hundred thousand 
dollars has been given anonymously. The 
details of the gifts are as follows: 
TRS Kass CUES 2.co1c6905 pocccsboecnpacubadoooaugcdccc $295,000 
Chicago Theological Seminary ................. 280,000 
SCIENCE. 
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Colorado College, Colorado Springs........... 150,000" 
Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts..... 150,000: 
Berea College, Kentucky.........-:secseeseerers 150,000: 
Lake Forest University ...........0cseesssereeeee 125,000: 
Whitman College, Oregon 120,000: 
Knox College.........:..secseeseeeneee 100,000’ 
Drury College, Springfield, Mo................ 100,000’ 
Yankton College, South Dakota............... 100,000 
Presbyterian Hospital, Chicago ............... 70,000 
Pacific University, Oregon............:seeceere 60,000 
Carleton College, Northfield, Minn.. ........ 50,000. 
Fargo College, North Dakota ...............46 50,000 
Pomona College, California...............+...+ 50,000: 
Fairmount College, Kansas..............ss000 50,000: 
McCormick Theological Sem., Chicago...... 50,000: 
Chicago Young Men’s Christian Assoc...... 40,000: 
Olivet College, Michigan.........-......ssese0e 25, 000- 
Marietta College, Ohi0.......00...ccseceseeeeeene 25,000- 
Sheridan College, Wyoming...............++00 25,000: 
McKendree College..............+++ 25,000: 
Presbyterian Board of Missions ............... 20,000" 
Grand Prairie Seminary, Onarga, IIl......... 20,000: 
Anatolia College, Turkey ...........c...:0000+ 20,000: 
Woman’s Board of Foreign Missions......... 20,006 
Chicago Art Institute..............csesceeeeneeene 15,000 
Unknown College.........:...ecvecceeeeeeener sneer 200,000: 
Northwestern University...-.......se00 cesseeee 30,000° 
Colorado College ........::0.ssseessseenseeeseneeees 50,000 
Grand total.........-....sc00-ssscseeereesee $2, 465, 000 
It is generally believed that Dr. Pearsons’ 
anonymous gifts will bring the total close to. 
$3,000,000. 
Mr. W. J. THompson, of Pittsburg, has given: 
Washington and Jefferson College $50,000 for 
a library building and $10,000 for equipment. 
TuHE Hon. Roger Wolcott, formerly governor 
of Massachusetts, who during his life time gave 
liberally to Harvard University, has by his will 
bequeathed $20,000 to the institution. 
THE daily papers report that Mr. Alfred. 
Vanderbilt has given $30,000 to the bi-centen- 
nial fund of Yale University. ; 
AT the meeting of the trustees of Ripon Col-- 
lege, December 19th, President Flagg tendered 
his resignation. The administrative work of 
the college will continue in the hands of the 
dean of the faculty, Professor Marsh, as it has. 
during the fall term. 
ProressoR ARTHUR THOmpsON, of Oxford, 
has been elected Professor of Anatomy in the- 
Royal Academy, London. 
