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[N. S. Vol. XVI. No. 



VNIYEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



It is said that Yale University will receive 

 about $171,000 as the residuary legatee of the 

 estate of Edvrard Wells Southworth. 



The jubilee of Sydney University was cele- 

 brated on October 1. Chancellor MacLaurin 

 presided, and addresses of congratulation 

 were presented from British, colonial, and 

 foreign universities. Professor Tucker, of 

 Melbourne, delivered an address on behalf of 

 the Australian universities, and Professor 

 Baldwin Spencer spoke for the English uni- 

 versities. 



The fotirth annual conference of the Asso- 

 ciation of American Universities will be held 

 at Columbia University on December 29, 30, 

 and 31. The preliminary program includes 

 the presentation of papers and reports on 

 ' The Certificate Method of Admission to Col- 

 leges and Universities (a) from Accredited 

 Schools and (b) from Schools not Examined 

 by the Admitting University or Formally 

 Accredited ' ; ' Uniformity of University Sta- 

 tistics (a) of Enrolment and (b) of Expendi- 

 tures ' ; ' The Report of the Executive Com- 

 mittee on Membership,' and ' The Require- 

 ments for Admission to Professional Schools.' 



Gen. Alexander Stewart Webb has re- 

 signed the presidency of the College of the 

 City of New York which he has held since 

 1869. 



The Rev. Edward A. Pace, Ph.D., has been 

 appointed director of the Institute of Peda- 

 gogy which the Catholic University of Wash- 

 ington has established in New York City. 

 The Rev. Thomas E. Shields, Ph.D., of St. 

 Paul, has been appointed instructor of physio- 

 logical psychology in the Catholic University 

 of Washington, filling the place vacant by 

 Professor Pace's removal to New York. 



Dr. Erancis L. Patton, formerly president 

 of Princeton University, has been elected 

 president of the Princeton Theological Sem- 

 inary. 



Dr. Henry A. Perkins has been elected 

 professor of physics in Trinity College. 



Dr. Addinell Hewson, demonstrator of 

 anatomy in Jefferson Medical College, Phila- 



delphia, has been promoted to an assistant 

 professorship. 



The following appointments have recently 

 been made in the medical school of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania : Dr. J. L. Gates, 

 assistant demonstrator of pathology; Dr. 

 Hidaya Noguchi, assistant in pathology; and 

 Dn John T. Carpenter, Jr., instructor in oph- 

 thalmology. 



Mr. De Pencier, B.Sc, has been appointed 

 to a newly established assistant professorship 

 of mining in McGill University. 



Mr. C. F. Myers Ward, professor of physi- 

 ology at University College, Shefiield, has 

 been appointed lecturer in physiology in the 

 Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, in 

 succession to Mr. Benjamin Moore, who has 

 recently been elected to the newly-established 

 chair of biological chemistry in the Univer- 

 sity College, Liverpool. 



In consequence of the removal of Mr. Gil- 

 christ, the head of the agricultural depart- 

 ment at Reading College, to a similar posi- 

 tion at Newcastle College, the department has 

 been reorganized, and, after a series of sit- 

 tings, the executive on Saturday made the fol- 

 lowing appointments : To be lecturer in 

 agricultural botany and director of the agri- 

 cultural department, Mr. John Percival, viee- 

 principal of the South-Eastern Agricultural 

 College at Wye; to be lecturer in the practice 

 of agriculture, Mr. J. O. Peet; to be lecturer 

 in dairy farming and dairy bacteriology, Mr. 

 C. W. Walker-Tisdale ; to be director of the 

 horticultural department, Mr. Frederick 

 Keeble, lecturer in botany at University Col- 

 lege, Reading; to be lecturer in horticulture 

 and keeper of the gardens, Mr. William H. 

 Patterson. 



De. E. Cohen, of Amsterdam, has been 

 called to the professorship of inorganic and 

 physical chemistry at Utrecht. 



Dr. Hermann Klein has been appointed 

 professor of astronomy at the University of 

 Cologne. 



Dr. Edgen Dubois has been called to the 

 professorship of paleontology in the Univer- 

 sity of Amsterdam. 



