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and happy to welcome any of our foreign col- 
leagues who should choose to honor us with 
their presence.’ 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
HAMLINE UNIVERSITY, at St. Paul, Minn., 
has received a fund of $100,000 of which $50, - 
000 is from Mr. James J. Hill and $30,000 from 
Mr. M. G. Norton. 
An Edinburgh correspondent telegraphs to 
the London Times that the details of the scheme 
already announced of Mr. Andrew Carnegie’s 
ereat benefaction to his native land appear to 
have been only partial, and much misconception 
has been created and adverse criticism made 
owing to the absence of the full facts. It ap- 
pears that an understanding was come to by 
those to whom Mr. Carnegie has already 
sketched an outline of his scheme that no com- 
munication should be made regarding it until 
the matter had assumed definite shape. This 
understanding has been violated, and the unfor- 
tunate result is that a very misleading, because 
partial, account of the scope of Mr. Carnegie’s 
munificent gift has been published. Mr. Car- 
negie has in view a much wider scheme of bene- 
fiting Scottish education than that of making 
education free to Scottish university students. 
In a few days Scotland will be in possession of 
the full facts. In the meantime the outline 
published has given much needless alarm as re- 
gards the extra-mural schools. The scheme 
will amply provide for extra-mural schools, and 
every boy and every girl who enters a Board 
school will, if the ability be shown, rise to the 
highest seat of learning without the payment of 
a single farthing in fees. Not only will the 
amplest provision be found to be made to open 
the gates of knowledge, but also to raise the 
universities of Scotland to the foremost rank. 
Ir will be remembered that Yale University 
has recently abolished required studies in the 
Sophomore year, and that students may now 
choose either five or six of twelve subjects that 
are offered. The elections for next year are as 
follows: English, 258; history, 216; physics, 
194; chemistry, 194; German, 162; French, 
155; Latin, 131; mathematics, 112; Greek, 
110; mental science, 45; philosophy, 7; ana- 
lytical geometry, 6. 
SCIENCE. 
[N.S. Vou. XIII. No. 336. 
At the recent commencement of the Medical 
Department of the Western University of Penn- 
sylvania, seventy-five diplomas were granted 
to men who had completed the course of four 
years in medicine which is required. The 
Medical Department is engaged in a struggle to 
resist the encroachment of purely political in- 
fluence in the appointment of the surgeons and 
physicians on the staff of the Western Pennsyl- 
vania hospital with which the college stands 
related. The contest is awakening general in- 
terest throughout the State. 
THE Japanese university for women in the 
suburbs of Tokio was opened with appropriate 
Ceremonies on April 21. 
THE council of the University of Birming- 
ham is prepared to appoint a professor in the 
proposed faculty of commerce with a salary of 
£750. 
Rey. JAMES G. K. McCuureg, D.D., for the 
last four years president of Lake Forest Uni- 
versity, has handed his resignation to the 
board of trustees, and Rey. Richard D. Harlan, 
of Rochester, N. Y., has been elected to the 
presidency. Dr. McClure only intended to 
hold the presidency for a short period and had 
retained the pastorate of the Lake Forest Pres- 
byterian Church. 
Ar Bryn Mawr College, Dr. Elinor P. Kohler 
has been promoted to be professor of chemistry 
and Dr. Allerton Seward Cushman has resigned 
the associateship in chemistry. Miss Harriet 
Brooks has been appointed resident fellow in 
physics and Miss Marie Reimer resident fellow 
in chemistry. 
H. C. Hastam, M.A., M.B., B.C., of Gon: 
ville and Caius College, has been elected to a 
John Lucas Walker studentship in pathology 
at Cambridge University. Dr. Sladen, who re- 
ceived permission to leave his work in Cam- 
bridge to join his mobilized militia battalion 
for service in Ashanti, and who has now re- 
turned, has been reinstated as a second student. 
PROFESSOR ALFRED NEwToN, who holds the 
chair of zoology and comparative anatomy at 
Cambridge University, has been excused from 
delivering lectures during the coming year. 
His place will be in part supplied by Mr. W. 
Bateson. 
