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realize $550,000. The Iowa State College of 

 Agriculture and Mechanic Arts at Ames, one 

 fifth of a mill for a similar period, which will 

 realize $550,000. The State Normal School at 

 Cedar Falls, one tenth of a mill for five years, 

 which will realize $225,000. The state educa- 

 tional institutions receive in addition $434,- 

 269 for the biennial period, distributed as fol- 

 lows: State University, $215,000; Iowa State 

 College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, 

 $135,000— of this $35,000 is for additional gen- 

 eral-support annually, and $10,000 annually for 

 the experiment station, $5,000 for live stock, 

 $5,000 to begin the building of a barn and 

 $35,000 to start a main central building; the 

 Iowa State Normal School, $84,269. Other 

 , laws passed affecting science and school mat- 

 ters is a compulsory school attendance law; 

 increasing the pages of the report of the Iowa 

 Academy of Science, and paying for illustra- 

 tion in the same and other state papers and 

 reports. 



President Eaymond has announced that Mr. 

 Andrew Carnegie had given $40,000 to Union 

 College for the completion of Nott Memorial 

 Hall. 



The "Wilson Memorial Fund for Washington 

 and Lee University has just been completed. 

 The amount is $100,000, and is for the support 

 of the Department of Economics, which was 

 developed through the efforts of President 

 Wm. L. "Wilson. For the present the excess of 

 income above the salary of the professor of 

 economics will be allowed to accumulate, until' 

 with subsequent gifts it amounts to $25,000, 

 when a memorial building will be erected. 



The New Jersey Legislature has appro- 

 priated $12,000 for the establishment of a 

 course in ceramics at Eutgers College. The 

 institution has also received a gift of $20,000 

 from ex-Governor F. M. Vorhees and Mr, 

 Ealph Vorhees. 



The Lowell Textile School has received a 

 gift of $21,000 from Miss Charlotte Kitson and 

 Mrs. Emma Stott, daughters of the late 

 Richard Kitson, founder of the Kitson Ma- 

 chine Company. The money is to be devoted 

 to the construction of a spinning building, 275 



by 60 feet, adjacent to the group of buildings 

 already under construction, and to be ready 

 for occupancy next September. 



Mr. George "Westinghouse, of Pittsburg,, 

 has made knovra. his intention to present to St. 

 Paul's School, in Concord, N. H., a new build- 

 ing to be used as a physical and chemical 

 laboratory. Plans are now being drawn and a 

 location has been decided upon nearly opposite 

 the new Sheldon library building. 



In order that olficers of the medical corps of 

 the navy may continue their professional 

 studies. Secretary Long has, upon the recom- 

 mendation of Surgeon General Eixey, proposed 

 to Secretary Root the establishment of a joint 

 Army and Navy College. That ofiicers may 

 be available for study as well as for duty the 

 secretary has also asked Congress for a slight 

 increase of the medical corps. 



Mr. W. "W. Astor has given £20,000 to the 

 University of London for the endowment of 

 professorships. This gift is in answer to an 

 appeal by Lord Reay, president of the College, 

 who asked for £700,000 for the endowment of 

 existing chairs and the foundation of new 

 professorships. 



By the will of the late Mr. Robert Irvine, of 

 Edinburgh, a chair of bacteriology is endowed 

 in the University of Edinburgh. 



BowDOiN College will celebrate its hun- 

 dredth anniversary at the approaching com- 

 mencement. 



The Rev. Henry Hopkins will be installed 

 as president of "Williams College on June 24. 



iliss E. E. Carlisle, who has had charge of 

 the work in pedagogy at Wellesley College, has 

 resigned to become one of the supervisors of 

 the Boston schools. 



Dr. S. Schlechter, the eminent Talmudic 

 scholar, has accepted the presidency of the 

 Jewish Theological Seminary, and arrived 

 last week in New York to assume the duties 

 of the office. 



The Geological and Mineralogical Labora- 

 tory at Freiburg has been divided. Professor 

 Steinmann being made director of the Geolog- 

 ical Laboratory and Professor Graff director 

 of the Mineralogical Laboratory. 



