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of the electric process, viz., cheap electric 

 power by means of sufficiently strong water 

 power, will secure a great advantage over 

 other works. Chief Engineer V. Engelhardt, 

 in his work on the Kjellin process, states that 

 it can compete with the Siemens-Martin 

 method, where the kilowatt hour can be put 

 down at about a half cent. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



At the University of Wooster the addition 

 to the library is nearing completion. The 

 finished building will represent an expendi- 

 ture of $71,000, all of which has been provided 

 by Mr. Henry C. Trick. At the cost of 

 $80,000, a dormitory is being built which will 

 accommodate ninety young women. 



The University of Nebraska plans to build 

 an engineering hall (costing $100,000), a horti- 

 cultural hall (costing $40,000) and a heating 

 plant for the School of Agriculture ($40,000). 

 Plans have been made to ask the legislature 

 for an increase in the appropriation for the 

 woman's building so as to make it $80,000. 



Mr. John Charlton has given $50,000 to 

 Queens University, Kingston, to endow a 

 chair of moral philosophy. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie, lord rector of St. 

 Andrews University, has given £10,000 to build 

 a new university library; he has also given 

 £12,500 to Dundee University College for a 

 physical laboratory. 



The University of Pennsylvania is about to 

 begin a number of special courses, practically 

 constituting a new department, by which 

 school teachers, both men and women, will be 

 able to obtain the regular college degree of 

 bachelor of arts or bachelor of science. 



At a meeting of the regents of the Uni- 

 versity of Nebraska, October 23, the grade of 

 ' head professor ' was established and the fol- 

 lowing appointments under this title were 

 made for the subjects named: G. E. Barber 

 (Latin) ; L. A. Sherman (English literature) ; 

 C. E. Bessey (botany) ; J. T. Lees (Greek) ; 

 H. W. Caldwell (American history) ; E. H. 

 Barbour (geology) ; F. M. Fling (European 

 history) ; E. W. Davis (mathematics) ; Law- 

 rence Bruner (entomology) ; Laurence Fossler 



(German) ; H. B. Ward (zoology) ; G. W. A. 

 Luckey (education) ; W. G. L. Taylor (polit- 

 ical economy) ; C. R. Richards (mechanical 

 engineering) ; O. V. P. Stout (civil engineer- 

 ing) ; E. A. Burnett (animal husbandry) ; A. 

 T. Peters (animal pathology) ; Samuel Avery 

 (chemistry) ; Roscoe Pound (law) ; G. E.. 

 Howard (sociology). It was further ordered 

 that these ' head professors ' should constitute- 

 the ' university senate.' 



Dr. Andrew F. West, professor of Latin at 

 Princeton University and dean of the grad- 

 uate school, has declined the offer of the presi- 

 dency of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology made to him by the executive com- 

 mittee of the corporation. 



The following appointments have been made 

 in the department of philosophy in the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan : Mr. Roy W. Sellars, A.B. 

 (Mich.), sometime fellow of the University 

 of Wisconsin, to be instructor in philosophy; 

 Mr. John F. Shepard, B.S., Ph.D., to be in- 

 structor in psychology; Mr. Frank van Vliet 

 and Mr. L. W. Elder to be George S. Morris, 

 memorial fellows in philosophy. 



Mr. Samuel W. Collett, fellow in botany. 

 State University of Iowa, has been appointed 

 instructor, ad interim, in the State College 

 of Washington. 



Dr. G. H. F. Nuttall, M.D., F.R.S., fellow 

 of Christ's College and reader in hygiene in 

 the University of Cambridge, has been elected 

 to the newly-created Quick professorship in 

 biology. His duties are to devote himself to 

 the study of the protozoa, especially such as 

 cause disease. Dr. Nuttall was at one time 

 associate in hygiene at the Johns Hopkins 

 University. 



Mr. W. L. H. Duckworth, M.D., Sc.D., 

 fellow of Jesus, has been appointed demon- 

 strator of anatomy in Cambridge University. 



At Trinity College Mr. F. J. Dykes, M.A. 

 (Cambridge), late lecturer in mechanics at 

 the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, has 

 been elected fellow and lecturer. 



Mr.. J. W. McBain, M.A. (Toronto), has. 

 been appointed lecturer in chemistry in Uni-- 

 versity College, Bristol. 



