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tributed $25,000 some time ago, is nearing 

 completion, and will be ready for occupancy 

 in a short time. 



The National Educational Association has 

 appointed a committee to investigate the en- 

 trance requirements to the technical schools of 

 the country, and to consider the question of 

 establishing uniform entrance requirements. 

 The members are : President Atkinson, Brook- 

 lyn Polytechnic Institute; Dean Cooley, Uni- 

 versity of Michigan; Professor Tyler, secre- 

 tary of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology; Dean Marston, University of Iowa; 

 Professor Kimbel, Cornell; Professor Baker, 

 University of Illinois, and Dean Goetze, 

 School of Applied Science, Columbia Uni- 

 versity. 



The faculty of the Cornell University Medi- 

 cal College announces that in and after 1908 

 candidates for admission to the college must 

 be (1) graduates of approved colleges or sci- 

 entific schools ; or (2) seniors in good standing 

 in Cornell University or in any other approved 

 college or scientific school whose faculty will 

 permit them to substitute the first year of a 

 professional course for the foiirth year in arts 

 and science, and which will confer upon them 

 the bachelor's degree upon the satisfactory 

 completion of the first year of the course in 

 the Cornell University Medical College; or (3) 

 persons who, while not possessing a bachelor's 

 degree, give evidence by examination that they 

 have acquired an equivalent education and a 

 training sufficient to enable them to profit by 

 the instruction offered in the Medical College. 

 In and after 1909 all candidates for admission 

 to the Medical College must have at least such 

 knowledge of physics and inorganic chemistry 

 as may, be obtained in college by a year's 

 course in these subjects when accompanied by 

 laboratory work. In and after 1910 all candi- 

 dates for admission must possess a similar 

 knowledge of biology. 



The total number of doctorates of phi- 

 losophy conferred by the University of Chi- 

 cago has now reached four hundred and 

 seventy. 



By a decree of the Oxford convocation any 

 student who has obtained the degree of Ph.D. 

 at a university of the German empire, the 

 Austro-Hungarian empire, or Switzerland, 

 may be admitted to the status and privileges 

 of a junior foreign student; and if he has ob- 

 tained it with distinction {cum laude) to those 

 of a senior foreign student. 



It is said that the number of American 

 students at the University of Berlin has fallen 

 to the smallest figure on record. Only sixty- 

 eight men and twenty-seven women from 

 America are enrolled, as compared with a 

 total of more than two hundred three years 

 ago and more than four hundred ten years 

 ago. A similar state of affairs is said to exist 

 at Heidelberg, Gottingen, Jena, Leipsic, Halle 

 and other prominent universities. 



Eev. George Alexander, D.D., Union, '66, 

 pastor of the University Place Presbyterian 

 Church of New York City, will be the next 

 president of the Union College, succeeding 

 Eev. Dr. Andrew V. Raymond, who resigned 

 last June to accept a Buffalo pastorate. Dr. 

 Alexander was offered the presidency of the 

 college at that time, but consented only to 

 become acting president. 



Professor John C. Shedd, who has held the 

 chair of physics in Colorado College, has re- 

 signed to accept the office of dean in West- 

 minster University, Denver, Col. 



B. M. Walker, Ph.D. (Chicago), who has 

 for some years been connected with the Mis- 

 sissippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, 

 is now director of the school of engineering 

 and professor of mathematics in that institu- 

 tion. 



John C. Hessler, Ph.D. (Chicago), has 

 been appointed professor of chemistry in 

 James Millikan University, Decatur, 111. 



William J. Moore, assistant professor of 

 electrical engineering at the Stevens Institute 

 of Technology, has resigned to accept a pro- 

 fessorship in the North Carolina State Col- 

 lege of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts. 



Professor Walden, of Riga, has declined a 

 call to succeed Mendelejef at St. Petersburg. 



