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nounce it, Germans themselves being almost 

 as mistaken in their pronunciation as foreign- 

 ers. Never was this general error as plainly 

 emphasized as at the celebrations held in hon- 

 or of the great scientist's 80th birthday. The 

 delegates whom he received on that occasion 

 had each his own way of pronouncing V-i-r- 

 c-h-o-w, Lord Lister, for instance, speaking as 

 if the word were spelled Wirtschau, Signer 

 Baccelli, WirkofE, while his French and Rus- 

 sian colleagues pronounced his name in such 

 a way that it was by no means easy to under- 

 stand whom they meant — Wirschoff, Wirhoff, 

 and Wirchoff respectively. At the banquet 

 which was given by Count von Billow in the 

 late Professor Virchow's honor, and which 

 practically brought the festivities to a close. 

 Professor Harnack addressed the guest of the 

 evening as Herr F-i-r-ch-o — that is to say, 

 the F is accentuated as softly as possible, as 

 in the English ' fair ' and the Eiissian ' Fee- 

 der,' while the ' w ' is dispensed with. This 

 greatly delighted the veteran pathologist, and 

 he remarked that never before had he heard 

 his name pronounced properly. Subsequently, 

 he dwelt upon the origin of his name, saying 

 that he had been able to trace it to a small 

 village and a lake in Pomerania, both of 

 which are named Virchow, which word the na- 

 tives pronounce exactly as Professor Harnack 

 had done. It may be of interest if I add that 

 a leading German philologist devoted consid- 

 erable time to the subject of the origin of 

 Virchow's name, and came to the conclusion 

 that it was Slavonic. The Slavs, he thought, 

 who bore it, were settled in Pomerania about 

 the fifth century of the Christian era, and 

 gave one of their names to the village and the 

 lake." 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



It is announced that the bequest to the 



Princeton Theological Seminary made by 



Miss Mary Winthrop, of New York, will 



amount to $1,400,000. 



At Harvard University students can here- 

 after complete the requirements for the A.B. 

 degree in three years without other require- 

 ments than that the necessary number of 



courses should have been taken. Hitherto 

 students who received honors could do this, 

 others being required to wait a year before 

 the degree was conferred. 



The Hon. John D. Long, formerly secretary 

 of the navy, has been elected president of the 

 board of overseers of Harvard University. 



Superintendent Edavin G. Cooley, of the 

 Chicago public schools, has been offered the 

 presidency of the University of the State of 

 Washington. 



Professor Thomas F. Holgate, head of the 

 department of mathetnatics of Northwestern 

 University, has been elected dean of the Col- 

 lege of Liberal Arts. 



Dr. John IVIarshall, professor of chemistry 

 and toxicology and dean of the medical de- 

 partment of the LTniversity of Pennsylvania, 

 has declined reelection to the office of dean, a 

 position he has held for eight years, in order 

 to devote himself more exclusively to scientific 

 work. Dr. Charles Frazier has been appointed 

 dean of the department. 



Dr. William B. Savery, of Fairmount Col- 

 lege, Kansas, has been elected to fill the chair 

 of philosophy at the Washington State Uni- 

 versity, left vacant by the resignation of Dr. 

 F. W. Colegrove. 



Dr. Frank S. Wrinch, Ph.D. (Leipzig), of 

 Toronto, has been appointed demonstrator in 

 experimental psychology in Princeton Univer- 

 sity. 



Dr. J. W. L. Jones, Ph.D. (Princeton), has 

 been appointed professor of philosophy and 

 education in Heidelberg University, Ohio. 



Dr. Wilhelm Windelband, professor of 

 philosophy at Strassburg, has received a call 

 to Heidelberg. 



Dr. Heinrich Maier, associate professor of 

 philosophy at Zurich, has been called to 

 Tiibingen as successor to Professor E. von 

 Pfleiderer. 



Dk. Wilhelm Trabert has been appointed 

 to a full professorship of cosmical physics at 

 University of Innsbruck. 



Dr. Oscar Zoth, professor of physiology at 

 Graz, has been called to Innsbruck as successor 

 to Professor M. von Vintschgau. 



