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lege has received an endowment for three 
fellowships of the annual value of $500 from 
Mr. John D. Rockefeller, and one from Mr: John 
Crosby Brown. These fellowships are to per- 
mit southern teachers to carry on advanced 
work. 
Mrs. Partie D. ArmMouR and Mr. J. Ogden 
Armour have added $250,000 to the $1,000,000 
recently given by them to the Armour Insti- 
tute, Chicago. A building for the Armour 
Memorial School of Engineering will be 
erected at once. 
Carson-NEWMAN COLLEGE, a Baptist insti- 
tution, of Tennessee, has collected an endow- 
ment fund of $60,000, of which Mr. J. D. Rocke- 
feller gave $45,000. 
A BUILDING for the scientific department of 
the U. S. Grant University, at Chattanooga, 
Tennessee, will be erected at a cost of $23,000. 
Of this sum the Hon. W. M. Banefield has 
given $5,000. 
ELABORATE ceremonies are this week in 
progress at Glasgow in connection with the 
ninth jubilee of the university. Among the 
events of special scientific interest are an ad- 
dress by Lord Kelvin on James Watt, who 
carried on his work at the old college, and an 
address by Professor John Young on William 
Hunter. The new botanical laboratories were 
to have been opened by Sir Joseph Hooker on 
the 18th. Delegates have been sent from the 
English universities and societies and from a 
number of American and foreign institutions. 
AT the annual commencement exercises of 
the University of Colorado, held in Boulder, 
Colo., June 6, 1901, seventy-four degrees were 
conferred as follows: 11 3B.A.,17 B.Ph., 14 
B.S., 1 B.L., 4 M.A., 2 M.S., 8 M.D., 12 
LL.B., 2 B.S. (C.E.), 3 B.S. (B.E.). 
THE School of Pedagogy, of the New York 
University, has been reorganized. The Chan- 
cellor of University, Dr. H. M. McCracken, 
will act for the present as dean. Dr. J. P. 
Gordy, professor of education in the Ohio State 
University, has been called to the chair of the 
history of education and Dr. Robert Mac- 
Dougall, of Harvard University, to the chair of 
experimental psychology. A number of pro- 
fessors of the University have been added to the 
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faculty of the School of Pedagogy, including 
Professors J. J. Stevenson (natural history), D. 
W. Herring (physics), Morris Loeb (chemistry) 
and C. L. Bristol (biology). 
Mr. M. N. FENNEMAN has been appointed 
professor of geology in the University of 
Colorado. He will begin his work in January 
next, at which time he will receive the Ph.D. 
degree from the University of Chicago. 
Av Harvard University, J. G. Love has been 
promoted to an assistant professorship of mathe- 
matics, and Albert Sauveur to an assistant pro- 
fessorship of metallurgy. 
Dr. W. R. SroKxes, city bacteriologist at 
Baltimore, has been elected professor of path- 
ology in the College of Physiciaus and Surgeons 
of that city. : 
Dr. Francis H. Snow has resigned the 
chancellorship of the University of Kansas, but 
will retain the chair of natural history. 
S. Gist GEE, professor of natural science of 
the Columbia (S. C.) Female College, has ac- 
cepted a position in the Chinese University at 
Soochow. 
Mr. Harotp B. HARTLeEy has been elected 
to a science fellowship at Balliol College, Ox- 
ford. 
M. D&JERINE has been appointed professor of 
the history of medicine in the University of 
Paris. There is some complaint because this 
chair is used as a stepping stone to other pro- 
fessorships. Itis said that M. Déjerine will soon 
be transferred to a chair of nervous pathology 
and will be succeeded by M. Ballet who has 
undertaken to devote himself permanently to 
the history of medicine. 
Dr. WILHELM SALOMON, associate professor 
of mineralogy at the University of Heidelberg, 
has been appointed director of the Institute of 
Paleontology and Stratigraphy and his title has 
been changed to associate professor of paleon- 
tology and stratigraphy. Dr. VY. Hepperger 
has been promoted to a full professorship in 
astronomy in the University at Vienna. Dr. 
Wolf Miller has qualified as docent in chemis- 
try in the University at Freiburg, i. B.; Dr. 
Jordis, in inorganic chemistry in the University 
at Erlangen, and Dr. Kallmann, in electricity 
in the Technical Institute at Berlin. 
