Marcu 1, 1901.] 
the whole thing is that I intend to reach the 
Pole—I say I ought to get there in 150 days, 
but I have allowed 180 for the purpose. If I 
leave Franz Josef Land when the sun rises this 
would still leave (allowing 180 days for the 
journey), ten days of remaining light for me to 
travel towards Spitzbergen. At the expiration 
of this time I should put myself in winter 
quarters on the ice, kill the remaining reindeer 
for food and all the dogs not required for the 
rest of the homeward journey in the spring. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
PRESIDENT FAUNCE has announced that Mr. 
John D. Rockefeller has offered to give $250,- 
000 to Brown University if a million dollars is 
collected. It will be remembered that a mil- 
lion dollars has already been obtained for 
Brown University, of which Mr. Rockefeller 
gave $250,000. 
Mrs. ANNA C. Hoven, of Los Angeles, has 
offered $25,000 to the University of Southern 
California in case an additional sum of $75,000 
be collected. 
THE proprietors of the Baldwin Locomotive 
Works have subscribed $25,000 towards a new 
engineering building for the University of Penn- 
sylvania. 
A BILL has just passed the Senate granting 
the North Dakota Agricultural College one-fifth 
mill on all taxable property, thus ensuring the 
continuous support of the Agricultural College 
in place of the uncertain biennial appropriation. 
Plans are being prepared for a new chemical 
laboratory and for a science hall to be built 
during the present year, also for a new barn to 
replace the one recently destroyed by fire ; 
loss $18,000, insurance $12,000. 
THE legislature of Wyoming has made an 
appropriation to complete the Science Hall of 
the University of Wyoming and to enlarge the 
campus. The new building will contain the 
geological museum and preparation rooms, the 
botanical and chemical laboratories and a large 
lecture room. A central heating plant for all 
the buildings will also be built. 
BEGINNING with June of the present year the 
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University of Michigan will confer but one de- 
gree, that of bachelor of arts, on graduates from 
the undergraduate courses. The degrees of 
bachelor of philosophy, bachelor of science and 
bachelor of letters, which have been conferred 
for more than twenty years, are to be dropped. 
This change is brought about by the following 
resolution, which was passed by the literary 
faculty on February 18th and by the Board of 
Regents on February 21st: 
Beginning in June of 1901, the degree of bach- 
elor of arts shall be conferred on any student who has 
satisfied any one of the four sets of requirements for 
graduation now in force in the department of liter- 
ature, science and the arts. 
THE annual commemoration day exercises at 
Johns Hopkins University on February 22d, 
were unusually impressive, as they marked the 
quarter centennial of the founding of the uni- 
versity and the formal announcement of the 
resignation of President Daniel Coit Gilman. 
The address was made by the Hon. David 
Jayne Hill, Assistant Secretary of State and 
formerly president of the University of Roches- 
ter. 
THE following memorial on the subject of 
Coopers Hill College has, as we learn from the 
London Times, been signed by some 374 lead- 
ing men of science and others interested in 
education : 
The correspondence regarding Coopers Hill College 
which has been published in the Times of January 3, 
1901, which includes Sir Horace Walpole’s letter to 
Colonel Ottley of December 14, 1900, and Colonel 
Ottley’s letter of December 17, 1900, has caused a 
painful shock to those engaged in higher education 
throughout the United Kingdom, and to all who are 
interested in the training of engineers. 
This correspondence relates to the sudden and arbi- 
trary dismissal of able and distinguished scientific 
teachers who have been doing duty in the college for 
periods of from nine to thirty years, and the value of 
whose past services is at the same time officially recog- 
nized. 
Such arbitrary dismissal is likely to affect adversely 
the cause of scientific teaching in the United King- 
dom. Itcannot fail to injure the future of the col- 
lege. During the correspondence which has ensued 
it has become apparent that the teaching staff have 
no voice in the educational policy of the college and 
are not consulted when any change in the curriculum 
