1000 
ship in rhetoric. He also said that $150,000 of 
the $200,000 necessary for the erection of a 
new gymnasium had been insured by the 
alumni. 
THE University of Chicago has received $8, - 
000 by the will of Marie J. Mergier to establish 
a scholarship in physiology. 
Mrs. CAROLINE STANNARD TILTON, of New 
Orleans, has given $50,000 for a Tilton Memor- 
ial Library Building at Tulane University. 
Ir has now become known that Mr. and Mrs. 
James Speyer are the donors of the $100,000 
for the experimental school of Teachers Col- 
lege, Columbia University. A site has been 
purchased near Amsterdam Avenue and 128th 
Street, and plans for the building, prepared by 
Mr, A. E. Josselyn, have been accepted, 
LINCOLN COLLEGE and Decatur Industrial 
College have united, and will hereafter be called 
Milliken University, in recognition of a gift of 
$150,000 from Mr. James Milliken. Mr. A. R. 
Taylor has resigned the presidency of the State 
Normal College at Emporia, to become presi- 
dent of this institution. 
THE faculty of the University of South Da- 
kota decided, by practically a unanimous vote, 
several months ago, that there should hereafter 
be but one degree granted for all courses of 
work, viz., the Bachelor of Arts. Heretofore 
there have been three degrees granted, Bach- 
elor of Arts, Bachelor of Science and Bach- 
elor of Philosophy. This step was taken inde- 
pendently of the similar action by the Univer- 
sities of Michigan and Minnesota which we 
recently reported. 
THE Yale Forest School has thirty-five appli- 
cations for its summer session, which will be 
held next month at Milford, Pa. 
A. D. CoLE, professor of physics and chem- 
istry in Denison University, has been called to 
a chair of physics in the Ohio State University. 
His position at Denison has been filled by the 
appointment of Professor Clark Chamberlin, of 
Colby College, Me. 
W. G. Ticut, professor of geology for thir- 
teen years in Denison University, and editor of 
the Bulletin of the Scientific Laboratories, has 
been elected to the presidency and professor- 
ship of geology in the University of New Mexico, 
SCIENCE. 
[N.S. Von. XIII. No. 338. 
H. C. MorEns, a fellow at Clark University, 
has been appointed assistant professor of math- 
ematics in Leland Stanford University. 
PRoFEssor F. C. FRENCH has resigned the 
chair of philosophy at Vassar College, and Dr. 
H. Heath Bawden has been appointed associate 
professor of philosophy in the institution. 
FREDERICK E. Boiron, Pu.D. (Clark) has 
been promoted to the head of the department 
of pedagogy in the State University of Iowa, 
succeeding Professor J. J. McConnell who has 
resigned to accept the superintendency of 
schools at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 
PROFESSOR EUGENE HAANEL has resigned 
the chair of physics in Syracuse University to 
accept an appointment as superintendent of 
mines of Canada. 
Dr. SHEPHERD Tyory FRANZ, assistant in 
physiology in the Harvard Medical School, 
has been appointed instructor in physiology at 
Dartmouth College. He will give courses both 
in the Academic Department and in the Medi- 
cal College. 
Dr. MARGARET FLOY WASHBURN, warden of 
Sage College, has been appointed to a lecture- 
ship in psychology in Cornell University. 
PAUL GOODE, who has been head of the de- 
partment of Geography at the Normal School, 
Charleston, Ill., since its foundation, has re- 
cently received the degree of Ph.D, from the 
University of Pennsylvania and has been ap- 
pointed instructor in geography in the same in- 
stitution. 
Dr. HERMAN C. COOPER, now of Lincoln, 
Nebraska, has been elected instructor in the de- 
partment of chemistry of Syracuse University. 
SANFORD BELL, a Clark University student, 
will be temporary instructor in psychology and 
pedagogy at Mount Holyoke College next year. 
THE newly created third chair of zoology at 
the Imperial University of Tokio has been 
placed under the charge of Professor 8. Watasé. 
M. TH. RiBoT, professor of experimental and 
comparative psychology at the Collége’ de 
France and editor of the Revue Philosophique, 
will retire from his chair on a pension at the 
end of the present academic year. 
