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Senator George F. Hoar, president of the 

 board of trustees of Clark University, has 

 made an announcement stating that Mr. Clark's 

 will is absolutely settled, and that the income 

 of the whole bequest, amounting to $2,600,000 

 will, in a few months, be at the disposal of the 

 trustees, with the exception of $400,000 and 

 the estate on Elm street, which Mrs. Clark 

 holds for life. The sum of $500,000 has 

 already been paid over to start the collegiate 

 department. 



Teachers College, Columbia University, 

 has received an anonymous gift of $250,000 

 for the erection of a gymnasium. 



An assembly hall to cost $50,000 will be 

 erected at Haverford College by Mrs. Charles 

 Roberts, in memory of her late husband, who 

 was an alumnus and for thirty years a mem- 

 ber of the board of managers of the college. 

 She will also present to the institution Mr. 

 Roberts's collection of autographs, valued at 

 $50,000. 



Two anonymous gifts, one of $5,000, an- 

 other of $10,000, have recently been made for 

 the new medical laboratories of the University 

 of Pennsylvania. 



Mayor Low has approved the bill providing 

 for pensioning the supervising officers and 

 teachers of the College of the City of New 

 York. The amount to be set aside each year is 

 1 per cent, of the excise fund, or about $50,000. 



The building which has been in process of 

 erection for some years past in the front 

 square of Trinity College, Dublin, will be 

 formally opened on May 30. The new build- 

 ing occupies one side of the square, and among 

 other uses will accommodate the historical and 

 philosophical societies and will provide a 

 meeting place for graduates of the university. 

 Of the total cost of the memorial the sum 

 of £8,500 was subscribed by the graduates. 



The court of governors of the University 

 College of Wales, Aberystwith, have decided 

 to extend the chemistry department at a cost of 

 about £5,500 and to call a joint conference of 

 college and county authorities with the view 

 of establishing an experimental farm. Upon 

 the question of a national museum for Wales, 



the governors decided that, having regard to 

 the geographical and educational conditions of 

 the principality, the objects in view would 

 be best served by grants to libraries or mu- 

 seums of a national character in the three 

 centers of university education in Wales. 



Senator Deboe, chairman of the Senate 

 committee to establish the University of the 

 United States, submitted on April 1 an affirm- 

 ative report on behalf of that committee on 

 the bill to establish a National University. 

 The bill is the one introduced by the chair- 

 man and differs from those introduced by Sen- 

 ators Depew and Wellington chiefly in that it 

 lessens the number of regents and raises the 

 standard of admission for students in the field 

 of general studies so that they must already 

 have such attainments as represented by the 

 degree of master of arts, instead of bachelor, 

 as under the other bills. 



Announcement has now been made of the 

 official program on the occasion of the installa- 

 tion of Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, as presi- 

 dent of Columbia University, on April 19. 

 The ceremonies will begin at 2 :30 p.m. An 

 address will be made by the chairman of the 

 trustees, who will present the keys and charter 

 of the university and the president will 

 respond. There will then be addresses on 

 behalf of the faculties by Dean Van Amringe; 

 on behalf of the alumni by Mr. R. Fulton 

 Cutting, and on behalf of the students by A. B. 

 A. Bradley, followed by addresses by President 

 Eliot, of Harvard ; President Hadley, of Tale ; 

 President Patton, of Princeton; President 

 Harper, of Chicago ; President Draper, of Hli- 

 nois, and Commissioner Harris. President 

 Butler will then deliver the inaugural address. 

 In the morning there will be a reception to 

 the guests, numbering over three hundred col- 

 lege presidents and professors, and the build- 

 ings will be open for inspection. There will be 

 a luncheon in University Hall, and in the 

 evening a dinner will be given to President 

 Butler, at which President Roosevelt, Mayor 

 Low and others will speak. 



Dr. Frederick W. Colgrove has resigned 

 the professorship of philosophy in the Univer- 

 sity of Washington, being seriously ill. 



