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THE Chicago Tribune reports that the Ar- 
mour Institute of Technology will be amalga- 
mated with the University of Chicago. The 
property of the Institute is valued at about 
$3,000,000, and there are about 1,000 students 
in attendance. 
AN anonymous gift of $60,000 has been made 
to Allegheny College, at Meadville, Pa., on con- 
dition that $140,000 in addition be collected. 
THE late Charles A. Converse, of Norwich, 
has bequeathed about $200,000 for public pur- 
poses, including $80,000 to the Norwich Free 
Academy for an art collection. 
Mrs. CHARLOTTE T. GASSETTE has given 
$10,000 to Albion College, at Albion, Mich., for 
a library building. 
THE Manufacturers’ Association in New 
York has appropriated $2,000 for a scholarship. 
Information concerning the terms on which it 
will be awarded can be obtained by addressing 
Mr. James T. Hoile, secretary of the associa- 
tion, 196 Montague street, Brooklyn. 
THE medical building and the south building 
of the Iowa State University have been de- 
stroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $250,- 
000, and is only in part covered by insurance. 
~ In regard to the troubles at the Royal Engi- 
neering College at Coopers Hill, Lord George 
Hamilton has now consented to let the Board 
of Visitors meet the dismissed professors. He 
has also added to the Board of Visitors repre- 
sentatives of the Universities of Oxford, Cam- 
bridge and London, who are to be members of 
a committee that will report upon the working, 
discipline and constitution of the College, and 
the relations of the visitors, president and 
teaching staff. 
DurRinG the latter part of June Professor 
Geo. F. Atkinson will deliver a series of lectures 
on ‘ Nature Study ’ at the summer school of the 
University of North Carolina. The lectures 
will deal with topics on ‘ Plant Life’ and will be 
given before teachers. Professor Atkinson will 
return to Ithaca, N. Y., in time to take charge 
of the botanical work in the summer school of 
Cornell University, 
ProressoR FRANK A, Ferrer has resigned 
his position at Stanford University to accept a 
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professorship of political science at Cornell 
University. 
Dr. DAyID EUGENE SMITH, principal of the 
State Normal College, at Brockport, N. Y., 
has been appointed professor of mathematics in 
Teachers College, Columbia University. Dr. 
Smith was graduated from Syracuse University 
in 1881, and is well known for his series of 
mathematical text-books and writings on the 
teaching and history of mathematics. 
CAPTAIN WILLIAM CROZIER, of the Ordnance 
Department, has declined the appointment as 
professor of natural and experimental philoso- 
phy at the U. S. Military Academy at West 
Point, N. Y. 
PRESIDENT JEROME H. RAYMOND has re- 
signed the presidency of the University of West 
Virginia at Morgantown. There have been 
troubles in the faculty, and, as we have already 
noticed, two of the members who were dis- 
missed have brought suit against President 
Raymond. The regents of the university 
have, however, in accepting the resignation, 
paid a high tribute to the services of Dr. Ray- 
mond. Dr. Raymond is now going abroad and 
on his return will accept a chair in the Univer- 
sity of Chicago. 
THE statement that Dr. W. T. Jordan, of the 
University of Tennessee, has been offered the 
presidency of the University of Alabama is not 
correct as the trustees will not electa president 
until their meeting in June. Dr. Jordan’s 
name has, however, been prominently men- 
tioned in connection with the position. 
THE following lecturers have been appointed 
at Yale University: Dr. Henry F. Davies, lec- 
turer on esthetics and patristic philosophy ; 
George R. Montgomery, lecturer in philosophy; 
Dr. Stuart Rowe, lecturer in pedagogy; Dr. 
William M. Hess, lecturer in philosophy. 
Mr Hersert F. RoBeErts, instructor in 
botany in Washington University, St. Louis, 
has been elected to the chair of botany in the 
Kansas State Agricultural College. 
PrRoFressor ANTON. FREIHERR YON HEISELS- 
BERG, of K6nigsberg, has been chosen to suc- 
ceed the late Professor Eduard Albert in the 
chair of surgery at Vienna. 
