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Mr. JoHn D. ROCKEFELLER has offered to 
give $200,000 to Oberlin College, on condition 
that $300,000 in addition be colleeted during 
the year. 
THE sum of $25,000 has been collected for 
Amherst College, making available $75,000 
promised by two alumni, Mr. D. Willis James 
and Mr. C. M. Platt. 
Mr. H. H. HUNNEWELL, of Wellesley, has 
given $25,000 to Wellesley College for the de- 
partment of botany. 
THE will of the late Joseph Ricker, of Port- 
land, Maine, provides for the distribution of 
about $300,000 among charitable, religious and 
educational societies. Among the bequests 
are the following: Bowdoin College, $20,000 ; 
Bangor Theological Seminary, $25,000; Tus- 
kegee Institute, $2,500, and Bates College, 
$10,000. 
On January 1, 1901, President Jas. W. 
Strong had secured gifts and pledges to the en- 
dowment fund of Carleton College amounting 
to $100,000. This secured the conditional gift 
of $50,000 from Dr. D. K. Pearsons offered a 
year ago. Thecollege has always given unusual 
prominence to its seientific courses and has an 
exceptionally good equipment of scientific ap- 
paratus. 
A UNIVERSITY for women has been founded in 
Tokio and is expected to open in 1901. A site 
and about $120,000 have been donated to it. 
THERE will be a second meeting of the As- 
sociation of Universities in Chicago from Feb- 
ruary 26th to 28th. Among the snbjects to be 
discussed are ‘Migration among Graduate 
Students,’ ‘Examinations for the Doctor’s 
Degree,’ ‘Fellowships’ and ‘To what extent 
should a Candidate for the Doctor’s Degree be 
required to show a Knowledge of Subjects not 
immediately connected with his Major Sub- 
ject?’ 
THE University of California will offer at its 
next summer session instruction in philosophy, 
education, history, Latin, Greek, physics, chem- 
istry, botany, mathematics and other depart- 
ments. A short course for farmers is being 
planned, in which practical instruction will be 
given in horticulture, irrigation, dairy hus- 
bandry, stock breeding, ete. The following 
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professors from eastern universities will take 
part in the work: James E. Russell, dean of 
the Teachers College of Columbia University ; 
John Dewey, professor of philosophy in the 
University of Chicago; H. Morse Stephens, 
professor of modern history in Cornell Uni- 
versity; James W. Bright, professor of Eng- 
lish philology in Johns Hopkins University ; 
Liberty Hyde Bailey, professor of horticulture 
in Cornell University ; and Albert S. Cooke, 
professor of the English language in Yale 
University. 
C. E. CHADsEY, Ph.D. (Columbia), has been 
appointed lecturer in the department of edu- 
cation, University of Colorado. He will lec- 
ture on sociological topics, etc. P. H. Keyser, 
M.D., has been appointed instructor in psycho- 
pathology in the department of psychology of 
the same university. Students in the law 
school are required to take the course, and it 
is an elective in the medical school. 
Dr. Wm. G. SPILLER has been appointed 
demonstrator of neuropathology at the Univer- 
sity of Pennsylvania, and will conduct an elec- 
tive course for a limited number of graduates 
and students for the study of the pathology of 
the central nervous system and the preparation 
and examination of microscopic sections. 
Joun M. BucHer, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), 
has been appointed associate professor of chem- 
istry at Brown University. He recently grad- 
uated at Lehigh University and has been in- 
structor in Tufts College. At the same uni- 
versity Mr. W. B. Jacobs has been appointed 
professor of the science and art of teaching. 
JOSEPH S. CHAMBERLAIN, Ph.D. (Johns Hop- 
kins), instructor in chemistry, Oberlin College, 
has accepted the position of private assistant to 
Professor Ira Remsen, Johns Hopkins Univer- 
sity. 
Dr. MAx VERWORN, associate professor and 
assistant in the Physiological Institute in the 
University at Jena, has been called to an asso- 
ciate professorship of physiology at Gottingen, 
where he will be director of the Physiological 
Institute. 
Dr. H. GOLDSCHMIDT, associate professor of 
chemistry at Heidelberg, has been called to 
the University of Christiania. 
