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UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



It will be remembered that several citizens 

 offered to give the Johns Hopkins University 

 a new site in the northern suburbs, consisting 

 of 176 acres, on condition that a million dollars 

 be raised for the erection of buildings. It is 

 understood that the condition has been with- 

 drawn and that the land will be presented to 

 the University at the celebration on Feb. 22. 



Cooper Union, New York City, has received 

 an anonymous gift of $250,000 to be added to 

 the endowment. 



The sum of £5,000 has been bequeathed to 

 the Aberdeen University, to be applied to the 

 purposes of the University at the discretion of 

 the senate, by the late Surgeon-General Robert 

 Harvey. 



Impkovements have been completed in the 

 Eotch Building at Harvard University during 

 the last few months which add largely to its 

 facilities for the study of mining engineering. 

 A gift from J. J. Storrow, '85, has made pos- 

 sible the entire refitting of the laboratory of 

 metallurgical chemistry. A new laboratory, 

 to be known as the 'Simpkins Assay Labo- 

 ratory,' has been fitted up in a large room in 

 the addition on the east side, and another, the 

 'Simpkins Metallui-gical Laboratory,' which 

 is now being equipped, will occupy the re- 

 mainder of this section. A large room in the 

 northwest corner of the building is to be used 

 for the study of steel; and a complete set of 

 machinery is being installed for this purpose. 

 The laboratory of metallography has been 

 moved to the old Infirmary building. 



A FIRE in the anatomical laboratory of the 

 University of Minnesota on January 25, 

 caused a loss of $10,000. The students saved 

 the valuable libraries of Professors Erdman 

 and Reed, but some collections were destroyed. 



Professor Victor Vaughan, dean of the 

 Medical College of the University of Michi- 

 gan, is chairman of a committee composed of 

 representatives from the leading schools of the 

 United States, whose object is to make it pos- 

 sible for a system of credits to be standardized 

 in all these schools, so that a student in any 

 one of them may transfer to any other with- 

 out loss of standing. The colleges represented 



on the committee are Michigan, Harvard, 

 Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins, Columbia and 

 Western Reserve. 



It is officially announced that law students 

 in Germany need no longer hold a certificate 

 from a classical gymnasium, but may be grad- 

 uates of the Realgymnasia or higher Real- 

 schulen. 



The Dowager-Empress of China has issued 

 an edict which, after pointing out that many 

 Chinese have studied abroad formerly, but that 

 no Manchus have done so, orders the Manchu 

 clan at Court and the generals of eight ban- 

 ners to nominate Manchus of between 15 and 

 25 to go abroad to study foreign branches of 

 knowledge. 



Lord Curzon, the viceroy of India, has ap- 

 pointed a commission to visit the university 

 centers and colleges of India to inquire into 

 their prospects, report on their working, and 

 recommend measures for the improvement of 

 the teaching and the standard of learning. 

 The commission is composed as follows : Mr. 

 T. Raleigh, president; Syad Hossain Bilgrami 

 Nawab ; Mr. J. P. Hewett, Secretary to the 

 Home Department; Mr. A. Pedler, Director of 

 Public Instruction in Bengal; Professor A. 

 Bourne, Principal of Madras College; and the 

 Rev. Mr. Mackichan, Principal of Wilson Col- 



Dr. R. W. Hall, at present instructor in 

 biology at Yale University and at the Marine 

 Biological Laboratory at Wood's Holl, has 

 been engaged as instructor in biology at Le- 

 high University. Mr. E. A. Regestein (Massa- 

 chusetts Institute, '99) has been appointed 

 instriictor in electrical engineering at Lehigh 

 University. 



Professor von Krafft-Ebbing is about to 

 retire from the chair of psychiatry at Vienna 

 and will be succeeded by Professor W. von 

 Jauregg. 



Mr. W. E. Johnson, of King's College, Cam- 

 bridge, has been appointed Sidgwick lecturer 

 in moral science. 



Dr. Pierre Janet has been elected to the 

 chair of psychology in the College de France 

 vacant by the resignation of Professor Th. 

 Ribot. 



