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UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
Tuer Minnesota Legislature has appropriated 
$60,000 for the College of Engineering of the 
State University. 
THE University of Cambridge conferred last 
year degrees as follows: M.D., 13; Sc.D., one; 
Litt.D., one; Mus.D., one; B.D., three; 
M.A., 342; LL.M., 11; M.B., 49; B.Ch., 61; 
B.A., 668; LL.B., 44; Mus.B., two. 
A PROPOSAL is before the German Federal 
Council to admit to the medical course in the 
University students who have certificates from 
the Realschule, instead of insisting as hereto- 
fore upon the classical training of the Gymnasia. 
The Berlin Medical Society, at a recent meet- 
ing, discussed, according to the British Medical 
Journal, this question, and passed a resolution 
affirming that the certificate of classical instruc- 
tion should alone give the right of admission to 
the medical examinations, but on the proposi- 
tion of Professor Virchow it was agreed to add 
the declaration that the admission of pupils 
from modern schools to the medical classes 
should be subject to the same rules as in the 
other faculties. 
For some time there has been an agitation in 
Liverpool to have a university established in 
that city. We learn from the London Times 
that Mr. A. L. Jones, of Messrs. Elder, Demp- 
ster, and Co., has brought the subject under 
notice in a practical form. At a recent din- 
ner in commemoration of the new steamer, 
Sekondi, just added to the West African 
fleet of Messrs. Elder, Dempster, and Co., be- 
ing about to start on her maiden voyage, Mr. 
Jones, in proposing ‘ The African Trade,’ said 
that they had a tropical school in Liverpool 
which had done a great deal to reduce mortal- 
ity from tropical diseases, and they hoped to 
have a cathedral and a university. He would 
be delighted to see a university established, 
and would be pleased to give a contribution of 
£5,000 towards that purpose. That was not 
much, and he was glad to think that the con- 
tributions to follow would be much larger. 
Manchester men did not treat their native city 
as Liverpool men did. Liverpool must have a 
cathedral and a university, and not continue 
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to shirk her responsibilities. Mr. A. F. Warr, 
M.P., in proposing ‘The Liverpool School of 
Tropical Medicine,’ said that they would not 
have discharged their duties until they had es- 
tablished a cathedral and university in the 
city. Professor Boyce responded, and referred 
to the loss sustained by the death of Dr. Myers, 
whose family had given £1,000 to the school, 
and his brother £500. They had established 
an absolutely international school, which had 
served as an example to others. Fellowships 
had been established at University College for 
the benefit of colonials and others, and the 
school has shown what a success a real uniyer- 
sity could be made in Liverpool. 
Mr. SAMUEL M. Courter, fellow at Chicago 
University, has been appointed instructor in 
botany at Washington University. 
At Columbia University the John Tyndall 
Fellowship has been awarded to Mr. Berger 
Davis of New York and the Barnard Fellow- 
ship to Mr. J. A. Matthews of Columbia Uni- 
versity, now carrying on chemical research in 
London. University fellowships in the sci- 
ences have been awarded as follows: 
Robert Henry Bradford, Salt Lake City, 
Utah, metallurgy. 
William Austin Cannon, Washington, Mich., 
botany. 
Fellowship in chemistry to be awarded to an 
alternate. 
William Jones, Sac and Fox Agency, Okla- 
homa, anthropology. 
James Franklin 
Mass., psychology. 
Austin Flint Rogers, New York, mineralogy. 
Walter Stanborough Sutton, Kansas City, 
Kansas, zoology. 
Charles Partridge Weston, Orono, Me., me- 
chanics. 
James Mickel Williams, New York, sociol- 
ogy. 
Dr. E. OvERTON, docent in the University of 
Zurich, has been called to an associate profess- 
orship of physiology in the University at 
Wirzburg. 
Dr. F. REINITZER has been promoted to a full 
professorship of botany in the Technical Insti- 
tute at Graz. 
Messenger, Cambridge, 
