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SCIENCE. 



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The old Harvard Medical School, which has 

 the assessed valuation of $596,000, has recent- 

 ly been sold by the university. The building 

 will be demolished and an office building will 

 be erected in its place. 



The eighth annual conference of the Asso- 

 ciation of American Universities will be held 

 in Phillips Brooks House, Harvard Univer- 

 sity, on November 23 and 24. The following 

 universities are members of the association: 

 California, Catholic, Chicago, Clark, Colum- 

 bia, Cornell, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Leland 

 Stanford, Jr., Michigan, Pennsylvania, Prince- 

 ton, Virginia, Wisconsin and Yale. 



The fiftieth annual meeting of the Asso- 

 ciation of Colleges in New England was held 

 in New Haven on Monday and on Tuesday, 

 October 29 and 30. The subjects proposed 

 for discussion at this meeting were: 



Taxation of colleges, and the means of common 

 action thereon by college authorities. (Suggested 

 by Harvard.) 



The relation of work for the degree of A.M. to 

 the case of students whose work for the A.B. is 

 slightly deficient. (Harvard.) 



What should determine the amoimt and ar- 

 rangement of college charges for tuition? (Yale.) 



The correlation and cooperation of the depart- 

 ments of instruction in a college. (Brown.) 



How can we prevent illiteracy in college gradu- 

 ates ? ( Brown. ) 



The honor system in examinations. (Will- 

 iams.) 



Religious organizations: their place in our col- 

 leges and universities. (Williams.) 



Is hazing a thing to regulate or extirpate? 

 (Amherst.) 



What share, under existing conditions, should 

 be allotted to the faculty in the government of a 

 New England college? (Amherst.) 



What should be the qualifications of a candi- 

 date for a special course in college ? ( Wesleyan. ) 



Is it advisable to offer a course in college to 

 beginners in Greek? (Wesleyan.) 



The abolition of material diminution of re- 

 quired mathematics in college, except for scien- 

 tific students. (Wesleyan.) 



How far can the responsibility be put upon the 

 student body for the conduct and deportment of 

 indents. (Wesleyan.) 



Mr. Prederick A. Goetze, superintendent 

 of buildings and grounds at Columbia Uni- 



versity, has been appointed dean of the faculty 

 of applied science. 



In the department of biology, Purdue Uni- 

 versity, new appointments are announced as 

 follows: Howard E. Enders, Ph.D. (Johns 

 Hopkins), to be instructor in zoology; Oliver 

 P. Terry, M.D. (Purdue, '02), to be instructor 

 in physiology and anatomy. 



Work in sanitary and experimental biology 

 has been introduced at Williams College un- 

 der Lorande Loss Woodruff, Ph.D. (Colum- 

 bia). 



Dr. T. C, Stephens, recent fellow in zool- 

 ogy. University of Chicago, has been elected 

 professor of biology at Morningside College, 

 Sioux City, Iowa. 



The following appointments have been 

 made in the scientific departments of George 

 Washington University: Professor of botany, 

 Albert Mann, B.A. (Wesleyan), Ph.D. 

 (Munich) formerly professor of botany in 

 Ohio Wesleyan University and expert in the 

 Department of Agriculture; assistant pro- 

 fessor of mathematics, Paul Noble Peck, A.B. 

 and A.M. (George Washington), promoted 

 from an instructorship ; instructor in chem- 

 istry, Walter Otheman Snelling, B.S. (George 

 Washington), B.S. (Harvard), M.S. (Yale), 

 1906; instructor in mathematics, George Al- 

 bert Eoss, A.B. (William Jewell), A.M. 

 (George Washington) ; instructor in civil en- 

 gineering, Oscar A. Mechlin, B.A, (Dart- 

 mouth), C.E. (George Washington), assistant 

 engineer. District of Columbia; instructor, in 

 mechanical engineering, A. C. Willard, B.S. 

 (Mass. Inst.), principal. University School, 

 San Francisco; instructor in physics and 

 electricity, Everett W. Yarney, A.B. (Bow- 

 doin), assistant of physics, Bowdoin College; 

 instructor in electrical engineering, T. E. S. 

 Maguire, B.S. (Mass. Inst.) ; professor of 

 nervous diseases, Charles H. Clark, M.D. 

 (Starling Medical College), clinical director 

 of the Government Hospital for the Insane; 

 professor of physiology. Shepherd Ivory Franz, 

 A.B. and Ph.D. (Columbia), pathological 

 physiologist at the McLean Hospital, Waverly, 

 Mass. 



