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for students studying in France, the arrange- 

 ments for wliicli we have already announced. 



President Haeper has announced that plans 

 are being made for a school of technology as 

 part of the University of Chicago. 



The Hon. Carroll D. Wright, U. S. Com- 

 missioner of Labor, was installed as president 

 of the new collegiate department of Clark 

 University on October 9. Addresses were 

 made by Senators Hoar and Lodge and by Dr. 

 Hall, president of the University. President 

 Wright made an address on the relations be- 

 tween college training and citizenship after 

 having outlined the purposes of the new col- 

 lege, which, he said, opened auspiciously with 

 an entering class of seventy-nine students. It 

 is expected that President Wright will take 

 up his residence in Worcester in about two 

 years. 



The inauguration of Dr. Frank Strong, for- 

 merly of the University of Oregon, as chan- 

 cellor of the University of Kansas, will take 

 place on Friday, October 17. On the Thurs- 

 day afternoon preceding there will be a meet- 

 ing of the Kansas City Section of the Ameri- 

 can Chemical Society at Lawrence, with the 

 reading of papers, and in the evening Dr. Har- 

 vey W. Wiley, of Washington, D. C, will deliv- 

 er the address of dedication of the chemistry 

 building, his subject being ' The Role of Chem- 

 istry in University Education.' At the inau- 

 guration exercises President Arthur Hadley, of 

 Yale, Chancellor Strong, Governor Stanley, 

 Regent Scott Hopkins, President Murlin, of 

 Baker University, Principal Whittemore, of 

 Topeka, Professor W. H. Carruth, A. C. Scott 

 and others will participate. In the evening it 

 is proposed to have an inauguration luncheon 

 in the new natural history museum, which is 

 nearly completed, with after-dinner speeches 

 by numerous college presidents and educators. 



The Rev. Dr. G. M. Ward has resigned the 

 presidency of Rollins College, Winter Park, 

 Florida. 



Dr. D. W. Hering, professor of physics in 

 New York University, has been elected dean of 

 the graduate school. 



Dr. John H. Hammond, recently appointed 

 professor of mining at Yale University, will 

 not reside at New Haven. 



At Yale University, Dr. Milton B. Porter 

 has been promoted to an assistant professor- 

 ship in mathematics, and Dr. William R. Coe 

 to an assistant professorship in anatomy. 



W. G. Cady, Ph.D. (Berlin), now in the 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey, has been ap- 

 pointed to an associate professorship of physics 

 at Wesleyan University, vacant by the resig- 

 nation of Professor E. B. Rosa, to accept a 

 position in the Bureau of Standards. 



At the State School of Mines, Golden, Colo., 

 Mr. C. W. L. Filkins, of the engineer's staff 

 of Cornell University, has been appointed 

 professor of civil and mining engineering. 

 Mr. H. C. Berry has been appointed instructor 

 in algebra and field surveying, and Mr. E. W. 

 Gebhardt has been appointed instructor in 

 trigonometry and analytical and descriptive 

 geometry. Professor W. C. King, of the Mon- 

 tana School of Mines, has been appointed 

 professor of a new chair, metallurgy and min- 

 ing. Professor King will not begin his work 

 until about the middle of the year. 



In the University of Michigan Dr. M. Gom- 

 berg has been advanced to the rank of junior 

 larofessor of organic chemistry. 



Dr. Harold Pender, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins, 

 1901), has been appointed instructor in phys- 

 ics in Syracuse University. In the same de- 

 partment, Dr. Frederick A. Saunders, Ph.D. 

 (Johns Hopkins, 1899), formerly instructor, 

 has been made associate professor. 



Me. William A. Hamilton, of Chicago Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed to the instructor- 

 ship in astronomy and mathematics at Beloit 

 College, left vacant by the resignation of 

 Professor George Bacon, who has been called 

 to the chair of physics in Worcester Univer- 

 sity. 



The chair of hygiene at McGill University, 

 vacant by the death of Dr. Wyatt Johnston, 

 has been offered to Dr. E. A. Hanliin, bac- 

 teriologist to the government of India, but has 

 been declined by him. 



Dr. Johannes Orth, professor of patho- 

 logical anatomy at the University of Got- 

 tingen, succeeds the late Professor Virchow in 

 the chair of pathological anatomy at the Uni- 

 versity of Berlin. 



