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anonymous donor; they will be awarded for 

 the first time next session. 



The trustees of the college of the city of 

 New York are said to look with favor on the 

 suggestion that a night college be added to the 

 present work of the institution, for the as- 

 sistance of those young men and women who 

 can not afford attendance at the regular col- 

 lege. 



The summer school of the University of 

 Nebraska closed on July 26, after a six weeks' 

 session. An increasing number of regular 

 university students entered the classes, and the 

 instruction consisted very largely of courses 

 which are identical with those which are given 

 during the college year. Students are show- 

 ing an increasing tendency to remain for these 

 summer courses in order to shorten the time 

 for attaining their degrees. By working three 

 summer sessions the student may gain a 

 semester's university credit, thus allowing him 

 to graduate in three, or three and a half years, 

 instead of four. 



The students in the ten Russian universi- 

 ties were last year distributed as follows : 

 Dorpat (founded in 1632), 1,908 ; Helsingfors, 

 in Finland (founded in the same year), 2,640; 

 Moscow (founded in 1755), 5,489; Kharkoff 

 (founded in 1804), 1,380; Kasan (founded in 

 the same year), 1,255; Kiefi (1832), 3,000; 

 St. Petersburg (1819), 4,508; Odessa (1865), 

 2,066; Warsaw in Poland (1869), 1,400; 

 Tomsk, in Siberia (1888), 786. 



The appointment is announced of Professor 

 Charles Henry Benjamin to be dean of the 

 Schools of Engineering of Purdue University, 

 to succeed Dean W. P. M. Goss, who resigns 

 in order to accept a similar appointment at 

 the University of Illinois. Professor Ben- 

 jamin, comes to Purdue from the chair of me- 

 chanical engineering at Case School of Ap- 

 plied Science, which he has occupied since 

 1889, prior to which time he was, for three 

 years, engaged in engineering practise and, 

 for six years, as instructor and professor of 

 mechanical engineering in the University of 

 Maine, of which institution he is a graduate. 



At New Hampshire College, Mr. Charles 

 James, F.I.C., has been promoted to an as- 



sistant professorship of inorganic chemistry 

 and Dr. D. L. Randall, Ph.D. (Tale, '07), has 

 been elected instructor in the same depart- 

 ment. 



Professor Charles Pueyear, head of the 

 department of mathematics of the Texas Col- 

 lege of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, has 

 been made dean of the college. 



Dr. John Welnzirl, who for the past ten 

 years has been director of the Hadley 

 Climatological Laboratory and professor of 

 bacteriology in the University of New Mexico, 

 has resigned to accept a professorship in bac- 

 teriology in the University of Washington 

 at Seattle. His place in the University of 

 New Mexico is filkd by Jos. R. Watson, a 

 graduate of Western Reserve University. 



Dr. R. C. Archibald, lately professor at 

 the Mount Allison Ladies' College, Sackville, 

 N. B., has been appointed professor of mathe- 

 matics at Acadia University, WolfviUe, N. S. 



It is announced that Dr. Howard Marsh, 

 professor of surgery at Cambridge, will be 

 elected master of Downing College to succeed 

 Dr. Alex. Hill, who has retired. 



At Sheffield, Mr. D. R. de Souza has been 

 appointed demonstrator in physiology, and 

 Mr. W. F. G. Swann assistant lecturer and 

 demonstrator in physics. 



Mr. Martin White, who has for some years 

 endowed the teaching of sociology in the Uni- 

 versity of London, has now founded two pro- 

 fessorships in that subject, one permanently 

 and the other for a period of five years. The 

 appointment to the permanent chair has not 

 yet been made; the other has been offered to 

 and accepted by Dr. E. A. Westermarck, who 

 has already held a lectureship in the subject 

 at the university. Dr. A. C. Haddon has also 

 been appointed university lecturer in ethnology 

 for the session 1907-8 under the Martin White 

 benefaction. 



Mr. Augustine Henry, of the Royal Uni- 

 versity, Ireland, has been appointed reader 

 in forestry in Cambridge University. 



