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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXVI. No. 653 



At the conunencement exercises of the 

 university of Nebraska, June 13, degrees were 

 conferred as follows : Bachelor of arts, 147 ; 

 bachelor of science, 44; bachelor of laws, 

 33 ; master of arts, 15 ; electrical engineer, 1 ; 

 mechanical engineer, 1; doctor of philosophy, 

 3. Of the bachelors of science, 17 were in 

 electrical engineering, 10 in civil engineering, 

 2 in mechanical engineering, 2 in agricul- 

 ture, 1 in forestry, and 12 in general science. 

 Of those taking the master's degree 6 were in 

 science (botany 3, chemistry 2, zoology 1), 3 

 in education, 3 in literature, and 3 in lan- 

 guage. Two of the doctors of philosophy 

 were biological students, one taking zoology 

 as the major, with botany as the minor, while 

 the second took botany as the major, with 

 zoology as the minor. The third doctorate 

 was conferred for work in ethics (major) and 

 metaphysics (minor). Arrangements have 

 been made for formal closing exercises at the 

 end of the University of Nebraska Summer 

 School on July 26, at which time degrees will 

 be conferred upon such university students 

 as have completed their work, whether in 

 undergraduate or graduate courses. Fourteen 

 students have announced themselves as candi- 

 dates for degrees at this time. This arrange- 

 ment makes it possible for candidates to come 

 up for degrees in June (at the annual com- 

 mencement), July (Summer School Closing 

 Exercises), or in February (midwinter com- 

 mencement). 



Dr. B. H. Eaymond has resigned the presi- 

 dency of Wesleyan University. A chair of 

 bible study has been established for him. 



Dr. George Santayana, assistant professor 

 of philosophy at Harvard University, has been 

 appointed professor of philosophy. 



Dr. "Otto Folin, research chemist at the 

 McLean Hospital, has been appointed associ- 

 ate professor of biological chemistry in the 

 Harvard Medical School. 



Dr. W. M. Munson, for more than fifteen 

 years professor of horticulture and horti- 

 culturist of the experiment station at the Uni- 

 versity of Maine, has resigned to accept a 

 similar position at the University of West 

 Virginia. 



Me. L. E. Mooee, instructor in theoretical 

 and applied mechanics. University of Illinois, 

 has been appointed assistant professor of 

 civil engineering in the Massachusetts In- 

 stitute of Technology to take the place made 

 vacant by the resignation of Professor F. P. 

 McKibben. Mr. Moore graduated from the 

 University of Wisconsin in 1900 in the De- 

 partment of Mechanical Engineering. He 

 studied structural engineering at the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology and has been 

 teaching mechanics and structures since 1903 

 in the University of Wisconsin and the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois. He has had practical ex- 

 perience on the Illinois Central Eailroad and 

 also with the Phoenix Bridge Company, and 

 other concerns. 



Messrs. G. L. Hosmer, C. B. Breed, and 

 George E. Russell have been promoted to be 

 assistant professors in civil engineering at 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

 Messrs. Hosmer and Breed are the authors 

 of a text-book of surveying published a year 

 ago by Messrs. Wiley. 



Dr. J. Carleton Bell, Ph.D. (Harvard), 

 instructor in experimental psychology, Welles- 

 ley College, has been appointed to take charge 

 of the new psychological laboratory in the 

 Brooklyn Training School for Teachers. 



Miss Helen D. Cook, this year fellow in 

 philosophy and psychology, Wellesley College, 

 has been awarded the Alice Freeman Palmer 

 fellowship. 



Dr. Paul Clements, of Maury County, who 

 has been serving as surgeon in the Philippines, 

 has been elected to a professorship in the Uni- 

 versity of Manila and will sail for that place 

 September 1. 



Dr. E. K. McClung, who has been senior 

 demonstrator in physics in McGill University 

 for the past three years, has been appointed to 

 the chair of physics in Mount Allison Uni- 

 versity in Sackville, New Brunswick. Dr. 

 McClung is a graduate of McGill, and later 

 of Cambridge, England, where he studied 

 under Professor J. J. Thomson. 



Mr. Thomas Barlow Wood, reader in agri- 

 culture at Cambridge University, has been 

 promoted to the chair of agriculture. 



