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changes, and (as the student progresses) to the 

 easier forms of generalization.' The greater 

 part of these improvements could be adopted 

 at once, provided that the sanction of the great 

 examining bodies could be obtained. In eon- 

 ckision he urged on all v^ho were convinced 

 that reform in geometrical teaching on some 

 such lines as he had indicated was urgent and 

 imperative that they should not rest content 

 until some at least of the reforms were sanc- 

 tioned by the great public examining bodies. 

 The meeting ought not to conclude without 

 appointing a strong committee to keep in touch 

 with the British Association conunittee. 



VNIVEB8ITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Mb. John D. Eockefeller has offered to 

 give $1,000,000 toward the construction, equip- 

 ment and endowment of the new buildings of 

 the Plarvard Medical School, on condition that 

 $500,000 be secured from other sources. 



Allegheny College has recently added two 

 hundred thousand dollars to its endowment 

 fund through the efforts of the president. Dr. 

 Wm. H. Crawford. 



Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler will be in- 

 stalled as president of Columbia University on 

 April 19. The ceremonies will be similar to 

 those on the occasions of the installations of 

 Presidents A. P. Barnard and Seth Low. The 

 charter and keys of the University will be pre- 

 sented by Mr. "William C. Schermerhorn, chair- 

 man of the board of trustees, to the president- 

 elect, who will respond briefly, and who in turn 

 will be succeeded by speakers representing fac- 

 ulty and alumni. Brief speeches of greet- 

 ing will be made by Presidents Eliot 

 and Hadley and by representatives of 

 other universities, and the program will con- 

 clude with the president's inaugural address. 



Eev. Daniel S. Bradley, of Grand Kapids, 

 Mich., has been elected president of Iowa Col- 

 lege, Grinnell, Iowa. 



The Supreme Court has dismissed the suit 

 of the New York University against the 

 Loomis Laboratory to gain possession of its 

 property. 



Owen's College, Manchester, will celebrate 



in March the fiftieth anniversary of its foun- 

 dation. 



Professor Hugo MiJNSTERBEEG, as chairman 

 of the philosophical department of Harvard 

 University, is making special efforts to secure 

 funds for the erection of a building for the 

 department, to be known as Emerson Hall. 

 Plans have been drawn by Mr. A. W. Long- 

 fellow, according to which the hall is to be a 

 three-story structure, of red brick. On the 

 first floor there will be small recitation roonis 

 and one large lecture hall, seating 400 students. 

 The rest of the floor will be taken up by a 

 philosophical library, comprising an extensive 

 collection of philosophical works. The second 

 story will contain small recitation rooms and 

 seminary rooms for advanced work. The en- 

 tire third floor will be used for a psychological 

 laboratory. There will be -one large room, 

 where work of a general character may be 

 done. The rest of the laboratory will be di- 

 vided into fifteen sections, each of which will 

 be specially equipped for certain' specific 

 branches of the subject. 



It appears that the elective courses of the 

 junior year at Yale University have been se- 

 lected by students, as follows: History 390, 

 English 374, philosophy and psychology 336, 

 social science 323, German 117, Erench 97, 

 Latin 36, Greek 21, geology 112, chemistry 85. 

 Philosophy and psychology were last year made 

 elective for the first time and are doubtless 

 more popular than when they were required. 

 The classical languages appear to fare badly, 

 for it is probable that only those who carry 

 them into the junior year get an adequate re- 

 turn for required routine work of previous 

 years. 



The reorganization of the faculty of the 

 Imperial University at Pekin, with the retire- 

 ment of President Martin, is contemplated. 

 He criticised the government severely after 

 the siege of the legations, but his age is the 

 principal reason for his removal. 



R. J. Paranjpe, the Hindoo who was senior 

 wrangler of Cambridge University three years 

 ago, has returned to his native country, and 

 has been given a professorship at Fergusson 

 College, Poona. 



