800 
5. What, if anything, do the State universities owe 
to applicants for admission who are mature and anx- 
ious to increase their working efficiency, but who can. 
not meet entrance requirements ? 
6. What proportion of the Morrill Fund is usually 
devoted to agriculture, and what to mechanic arts, 
languages, etc., or branches not connected with agri- 
culture ? 
7. Can anything be done to promote system in 
‘Aericultural Experimentation’ under the Hatch 
Act? 
8. What is to be said concerning physical training 
departments and athletic matters ? 
9. To what extent should university authorities 
permit class rushes and scrimmages ? 
10. What is the wise policy touching university in- 
spection of high schools ? 
11. Should our universities maintain summer 
schools? Or, are four regular terms in the year ad- 
visable ? 
12. What ought our universities to do concerning 
the professional training of teachers ? 
13. Is a uniform standard for ‘units’ or ‘ points’ 
in entrance requirements practicable ? 
14. What ought the State universities to claim in 
reference to the right of their graduates to teach in 
the common schools without examination by local 
commissioners ? 
15. How can other educational interests secure such 
national cooperation and pecuniary support as are ac- 
corded to the agricultural interests ? 
THE Yale Alumni Weekly compares the 
changes in the election for senior studies next 
year with those of the class of 1886, when the elec- 
tive system began. It appears that ancient lan- 
guages fall from 34.8 per cent. to 23.9 per cent.; 
European languages rise from 10 per cent. to 
14.7 per cent.; English from 9.2 per cent. to 14.7 
per cent.; mathematics fall from 18.8 per cent. to 
10 per cent.; natural sciences rise from 7.4 per 
cent. to 8.4 per cent.; philosophy falls from 9.1 
per cent. to 5.6 per cent.; history rises from 
7.2 per cent. to 10.1 per cent., and social 
sciences rise from 3.5 percent. to 12.2 per cent. 
THE Council of the New York University 
has accepted the resignations of the entire 
faculty of the School of Pedagogy, consisting 
of six members, including the Dean. A special 
committee which recommended this action was 
authorized to reorganize the faculty. 
Iv is expected that two new professorships 
will be established at the University of Toronto, 
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one in geology and paleontology, and the other 
in mineralogy. 
Dr. FRANKLIN CARTER has resigned the 
presidency of Williams College after twenty 
years of service. 
At Columbia University Henry E. Crampton, 
Ph.D., has been made adjunct professor of 
zoology at Barnard College, and Mr. W. HE. 
Kellicott assistant in this science. Mr. Wil- 
liam Findlay has been made tutor in mathe- 
matics and Miss Julia L. Collis assistant in 
physics. In other departments of the Uni- 
versity the following promotions and appoint- 
ments have been made: George H. Ling, tutor 
in mathematics; Charles S. Forbes, assistant 
in mathematics; Alexis P. Anderson, curator 
of the herbarium; H. W. Shimer, assistant in 
paleontology; George I. Finlay, assistant in 
geology ; George Canning Hubbard, assistant 
in analytical chemistry and assaying; Myron 
S. Falk, C.H., tutor in civil engineering; 
Adolph Black, instructor in civil engineering ; 
Joseph C. Pfister, instructor in mechanics; A. 
L. J. Iveneau, tutor in metallurgy; (zilbert 
Tolman, assistant in physics; Holmes C. Jack- 
son, assistant in physiological chemistry. 
WitiiAM J. MornKHAUS, graduate student 
at the University of Chicago, has been appointed 
assistant professor of zoology at the University 
of Indiana. 
C. J. FRANCE, who expects to take the Ph.D. 
degree at Clark University, has been given 
charge of the biological work in the Jacob 
Tome Institute. 
THomMAS HupDSON BEARE, professor of mechan- 
ical engineering at University College, London, 
has been appointed to the chair of engineering 
in the University of Edinburgh, in succession 
to the late Professor Armstrong. 
J. J. SupBoRovGH, D.Sce., senior lecturer and 
demonstrator in chemistry at Nottingham Uni- 
versity College, has been appointed professor of 
chemistry, at Aberystwith, in place of Dr. 
Lloyd Snape, now Secretary for Education for 
the County of Lancaster. 
Dr. R. SPITALER, docent and assistant in 
astronomy in the German University at Prague, 
has been promoted to an associate professorship. 
