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three years those who have to their credit 

 cumulative leave for two years may visit the 

 United States without having the time in 

 going to and returning from San Francisco 

 charged against their leave. 



UNIVERSITY A^W EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



EuTGEES College receives $10,000 by the 

 will of the late "William Clark. 



Me. Geoege F. McCulloch, president of the 

 Union Traction Company of Indiana, has giv- 

 en $10,000 to the National Technical Institute 

 to be located on the arsenal grounds at Indian- 

 apolis. 



T)iE corner stone of the new women's build- 

 ing of the University of Texas was laid by 

 Mrs. Sayers, wife of Governor Sayers, on Mon- 

 day, August 11, in the presence of represen- 

 tatives of the board of regents, the faculty 

 and other prominent citizens. The building- 

 is of Austin cream-colored pressed brick with 

 white limestone trimmings. The portion now 

 in the process of erection, about one half, will 

 cost $75,000. 



Mb. J. K. Cairo, of Dundee, has offered to 

 the council of Dundee University College 

 £13,000 to provide and equip a new physical 

 laboratory. 



The University of North Wales has received 

 £2,500 for scientific and technical scholarships 

 to perpetuate the memory of the late Sir G. 

 Osborne Morgan. 



It is reported from London that the execu- 

 tors of the will of the late Cecil Rhodes expect 

 that the first scholarships under the terms of 

 the will will be awarded in 1904. 



The Czar has ordered the liberation of all 

 the students who were imprisoned at Smolensk 

 in connection with the student distiirbances 

 in Moscow last February. 



After consultation with Mr. Astor, and in 

 accordance with his wish, the council of Uni- 

 versity College, London, has resolved to endow 

 the chair of pure mathematics and to name it 

 the 'Astor chair.' 



The fifth annual session of the University 

 of Texas summer school opened on July 12, 

 the day following commencement, and closed 



on July 26. There were courses offered in 

 mathematics, physics, physiography, chemistry, 

 botany, education, history and the languages. 

 The attendance reached 262, the largest of any 

 summer session to date. The management of 

 the school was in the hands of an executive 

 committee consisting of President Prather, 

 Dean Sutton and Professors Garrison, Sim- 

 onds and Battle. 



The south wing of the main building at 

 Iowa State College of Agricultvire and Me- 

 chanic Arts at Ames was burned on August 

 14. The wing was to have been torn down to 

 make room for a new building. The vakiable 

 botanical collection and equipment were saved. 



Presidekt Ernest R. Nichols, of the Kansas 

 State Agricultural College, has been elected 

 jDresident of the Rhode Island College of Agri- 

 cultural and Mechanic Arts at Kingston. 



Dr. T. N. Lewis, of "Western Maryland Col- 

 lege, has been elected president of Adrian Col- 

 lege, at Adrian, Mich. 



E. W. Rettger, Ph.D. (Clark), and G. 0. 

 James, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), have beensap- 

 pointed instructors in the department of 

 mathematics and astronomy of Lehigh Univer- 

 sity. 



Mr. John Adams, rector of the United Free 

 Church Training College, Glasgow, and lec- 

 turer on education in Glasgow University, has 

 been appointed professor of education in the 

 University of London. The senate of the Uni- 

 versity has also appointed Dr. Samuel Smiles 

 assistant teacher in organic chemistry at Uni- 

 versity College and Dr. F. G. Donnon, assist- 

 ant teacher in general chemistry. The staff 

 of the reorganized department of chemistry 

 of the college, London, will be as follows : 

 General and inorganic chemistry; profess- 

 or Sir "William Ramsay, K.C.B., F.R.S.; 

 assistant professors. Dr. F. G. Doniian, 

 Dr. Morris Travers and Mr. E. C. C. 

 Baly; organic chemistry; professor. Dr. J. 

 Norman Collie, F.R.S. ; assistant professor. 

 Dr. S. Smiles. 



Dr. Carl Gussenbauer, professor of sur- 

 gery, has been appointed rector, and Dr. Ernest 

 Ludwig, professor of chemistry, dean of the 

 University of "\^ienna. 



