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SCIENCE, 



[N. S. Vol. XV. No. 391. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



At the commencement exercises of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, Provost Plarrison an- 

 nounced that Mr. Joseph Wharton, founder of 

 the Wharton School of Finance and Economy 

 at the University, had increased his endow- 

 ment of the school from $200,000 to $500,000. 



Pennsylvania State College has received 

 $100,000 from Mr. Andrew Carnegie for a 

 library; $60,000 from Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. 

 Schwab for an auditorium; and $20,000 from 

 Mr. James Gilbert White for the establishment 

 of a fellowship and three scholarships. 



The sum of $100,000 has been collected for 

 Smith College, thus securing the $100,000 

 promised, by Mr. John D. Eockefeller. 



A FEIEND of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, whose name is withheld, has giv- 

 en to that institution $5,000 a year for three 

 years, to he devoted to investigation and in- 

 struction in sanitary science and the sanitary 

 arts, especially the purification of sewage and 

 water, and the disposal of garbage and other 

 wastes of modern life. The work to be done 

 will be under the direction of Professor W. 

 T. Sedgwick, the head of the biological de- 

 partment of the Institute, and formerly biol- 

 ogist to the State Board of Health of Massa- 

 chusetts. 



Mrs. Sarah A. Rand has bequeathed $5,000 

 to Eadcliife College and the residue of her 

 estate to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. 



Plans to expend $1,200,000 on a secondary 

 school quadrangle at the University of Chi- 

 cago have been announced by President Har- 

 per. The new group, of which the school of 

 education building already in coiirse of erec- 

 tion will be part, will include several build- 

 ings, all of which will be devoted to secondary 

 education. Ground has been broken for the 

 new manual training schools, and the other 

 structures will be built as the expected endow- 

 ments are received. 



Franklin and Marshall College, Lancas- 

 ter, Pa., dedicated its new Science Hall on 

 June 11, when Professor Edgar F. Smith, of 

 the University of Pennsylvania, delivered the 

 chief address. The building was erected at a 

 cost of about $80,000. 



The University of Sydney, New South 

 Wales, will celebrate in September its fiftieth 

 anniversary. 



Professor .George H. Denny has been in- 

 stalled as president of Washington and Lee 

 University. He graduated from Hamp den- 

 Sydney College in 1891, and has been pro- 

 .lessor of Latin at Washington and Lee Uni- 

 versity since 1899. The addresses of greeting 

 at the installation included speeches by Presi- 

 dent Eemsen, of the Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity, and President Venable, of the University 

 of North Carolina. 



Professor Charles W. Needham, dean of 

 the Law School of Columbian University, has 

 been elected president of the institution. 



Mr. Alexander C. Humphreys has been 

 elected president of the Stevens Institute of 

 Technology, in succession to the late Henry 

 Morton. Mr. Humphreys is a gas engineer 

 and an alumnus and trustee of the institute. 



The McGill University medical faculty has 

 recommended the Board of Governors to ap- 

 point Dr. R. F. Ruttan as professor of chemis- 

 try, in succession to Dr. Girdwood, resigned, 

 and Professor McBride, Strathcona professor 

 of zoology in the arts faculty, to a like chair 

 in the medical faculty. 



At Cornell University Dr. H. Ries has been 

 appointed to an assistant professorship in 

 geology, and Dr. P. A. Fish to an assistant 

 professorship in comparative physiology. 



At the University of Colorado, in Boulder, 

 Mr. H. Chester Crouch, of Oswego, New 

 York, a graduate of Cornell University, has 

 been appointed assistant professor of mechan- 

 ical engineering in charge of the department. 

 President James PI. Baker has leave of ab- 

 sence for four months, during which time he 

 will travel in Europe. Dr. Francis Ramaley, * 

 of the department of biology, will be acting 

 president until his return. 



Mr. Edward Gordon Duff, M.A., Oxford, 

 of Wadham College, has been elected Sandars 

 reader in bibliography at the University. 



Mr. Charles G. Barkla has been elected 

 to the Oliver Lodge fellowship, recently 

 founded at University College, Liverpool, to 

 promote research in physics. 



