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faculty. The first two years of work are to 

 be given at the state university, Bloomington, 

 and the last two at Indianapolis. 



A DIRECTOR of physical training has been 

 appointed for the Boston School system, and 

 a professional nurse has been assigned to each 

 of the twenty-two districts. 



Dr. Wm. North Eioe, professor of geology 

 at Wesleyan University, has been appointed 

 acting president during the absence of Presi- 

 dent Raymond. 



Dr. Thomas T. Hexd, who has held during 

 the past year the position of professor of 

 mining and metallurgy at Colorado College, 

 has accepted the position of professor of 

 metallurgy at the Imperial University in 

 Tientsin, China. The vacancy at Colorado 

 College caused by_ his resignation has not yet 

 been filled. 



Dr. Gustave M. Meyer, of the department 

 of biological chemistry of Columbia Uni- 

 Tersity, has been elected head of the depart- 

 ment of physiological chemistry at Syracuse 

 University. 



E. E. Dewanup, of the University of 

 Chicago, has been appointed professor of rail- 

 way management in the University of Illinois. 



Mr. T. D. Beckwith, of the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry, Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington, D. C, has been appointed as- 

 sistant professor of botany and bacteriology at 

 the North Dakota Agricultural CoUege at 

 Fargo, N. D. 



New appointments at Stanford University 

 for 1907-8 have been made as follows : In 

 Law : Mr. Frederic O. Woodward, of . North' 

 western University, as professor of law; Mr. 

 Joseph W. Bingham, of Cornell University, as 

 acting assistant professor, hi Philosophy: 

 Mr. Henry W. Stuart, of Lake Forest Uni- 

 versity, as assistant professor; Mr. George H. 

 Sabine, of Cornell, as instructor. In Applied 

 Mathematics : Mr. Sidney D. Townley, of the 

 International Latitude Observatory, Ukiah, 

 California, as assistant professor; Mr. J. D. 

 Suter, of the University of Wisconsin, and 

 Mr. Edward Jordan, of St. Peter's College, 

 Australia, as instructors. As Librarian: Mr. 

 George T. Clark, of the San Francisco Public 



Library. In Political Science: Mr. James M. 

 Motley, of Wells College, as assistant pro- 

 fessor. In Bomanic Languages: Mr. A. L. 

 Guerard, of Williams College, as assistant 

 professor; Mr. Ernest G. Atkin, of Cornell, 

 as instructor. In German: Mr. George H. 

 Danton, of Western Reserve, as acting as- 

 sistant professor; Mr. Herman Hilmef, of 

 Michigan University, and Mr. Bruno Boez- 

 inger, of Texas, as instructors. In Education: 

 Mr. Percy E. Davidson, of New York Normal 

 Training College, as acting assistant pro- 

 fessor; Mr. M. E. Dailey, of San Jose Normal 

 School, as lecturer. In History: Mr. A. 

 Edward Harvey, Princeton '98, as instructor. 

 In Drawing: Mr. Robert B. Harshe, of Nan- 

 tucket School of Design, as instructor. In 

 Electrical Engineering : Mr. W. A, Hille- 

 brand, Cornell '00, instructor. In Greeh: Mr. 

 Edward W. Hope, of University of Illinois, as 

 instructor. In Metallurgy : Mr. Luther W. 

 Bahney, University of California '97, as in- 

 structor. In Civil Engineering: Mr. J. H. 

 Foss, Stanford '03, and Mr. F. H. Fowler, 

 Stanford '05, as instructors. In Mechanical 

 Engineering: Mr. Everett P. Lesley, Stan- 

 ford '97, and Mr. Robert Harcourt, of San 

 Francisco, as instructors. 



The following appointments have been 

 made at New Hampshire College: William 

 Morton Barrows, M.S. (Harvard '06), assis- 

 tant in zoology; C. S. Spooner, of the Bureau 

 of Entomology, assistant entomologist; Fred 

 Rasmussen, of the Iowa Agricultural College, 

 associate professor of dairying; J. F. East- 

 man (Massachusetts Agricultural College '07), 

 assistant agriculturist; W. H. Pew (Iowa 

 Agricultural College '07), assistant professor 

 of animal husbandry; Ray Spencer (Dart- 

 mouth '07), instructor in English and modern 

 languages; C. P. Cooper (Ohio State Univer- 

 sity '07), assistant in mechanics and electrical 

 engineering; T. J. Laton (New Hampshire 

 College '04), instructor in drawing; S. T. 

 Adams (New Hampshire College '06) assistant 

 professor of physics and electrical engineering. 

 E. D. Sanderson, professor of zoology and 

 entomology, has been made director of the 

 experiment station. 



