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ing agricultural subjects. Instruction will be 

 given in eigbt main lines, agronomy, plant 

 pathology and physiology, animal husbandry, 

 poultry, horticulture, dairying, rural engineer- 

 ing, rural economics and sociology. The 

 work of extension departments, such as or- 

 ganization and function, agricultural journal- 

 ism and conservation of our natural re- 

 sources will be discussed at sessions particu- 

 larly arranged for such. At the opening 

 exercises to be held on July 6 addresses will 

 be given by Hon. James Wilson, secretary of 

 Agriculture; Dr. A. B. Storms, president of 

 Iowa State College; Dr. W. O. Thompson, 

 president of Ohio State University; Dr. C. F. 

 Curtiss, dean of agriculture, Iowa State Col- 

 lege; Dr. H. P. Armsby, chairman of the 

 committee on graduate study. Association of 

 American Agricultural Colleges and Experi- 

 ment Stations, and Dr. A. C. True, director 

 of Office of Experiment Stations and dean of 

 the Graduate School of Agriculture. Attend- 

 ance at the sessions of this school is limited 

 to persons who have completed a college course 

 and have taken a bachelor's degree, except to 

 non-graduates who are recommended by the 

 faculty of the college with which they are as- 

 sociated as properly qualified to take advanced 

 work in agriculture. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



The New York legislature has passed a bill 

 appropriating $357,000 for new buildings for 

 the State College of Agriculture at Cornell 

 University. Of the sum appropriated, $200,- 

 000 will be available this year. Three new 

 buildings are provided for — an auditorium to 

 cost $113,000, a poultry building, for which 

 $90,000 is set aside, and a home economics 

 building, whose cost will be $154,000. 



The new engineering building of Union 

 College built by Mr. Andrew Carnegie at a 

 cost of $100,000 and endowed by the alumni 

 with an equal sum, was dedicated on April 28. 

 Mr. James E. Steers has given the College 

 of the City of New York, from the first class 

 of which he graduated in 1853, $10,000 for 

 the purchase of books on natural history, phys- 

 ics and chemistry and has purchased the 



library of the late Professor Wolf, of Dela- 

 ware College, Newark, Delaware, and pre- 

 sented it to the Wolcott Gibbs Library of 

 Chemistry in the college. 



By the will of Edward A. Bowser, emeritus 

 professor of mathematics and engineering, 

 in Rutgers College, who died at Honolulu 

 about two months ago, the college has received 

 a bequest of his library, also the rights to the 

 plates of the printed copies of his various 

 text-books, together with the royalties on 

 them. 



It is announced that a National College of 

 Agriculture is to be established in Pretoria. 

 General Botha has promised to set aside £100,- 

 000 as a first installment for the execution of 

 the project, and the Town Council has de- 

 cided to give the government the whole of the 

 tovm lands of Groenkloof as a site. The area 

 comprises 3,681 acres. 



Harvard University has established the 

 new degree of associate in arts, to be abbrevi- 

 ated as A.A. It is understood that Eadcliffe 

 College will offer this degree to women. The 

 degree is designed for those who have taken 

 courses provided by the Department of Uni- 

 versity Extension, whether in the summer 

 school or in the winter courses now being ar- 

 ranged by the intercollegiate " Commission on 

 Extension Courses." It will require the same 

 number of courses as the A.B., but no en- 

 trance examinations and no residence at the 

 university. 



The commission appointed by the general 

 assembly of the presbyterian church to confer 

 with the trustees of Queen's University, at 

 Kingston, Ont., in regard to certain changes 

 in the university constitution decided, on a 

 vote of ten to nine, to recommend to the Mon- 

 treal assembly next June that the report of 

 the joint committee, which met at Ottawa 

 last January, be accepted. This would make 

 Queen's University undenominational in form 

 and enable it to receive the pensions of the 

 Carnegie Foundation. 



Dr. Charles E. Pellew, adjunct professor 

 of chemistry, and Dr. Ira H. Woolson, adjunct 

 professor of civil engineering, have resigned 

 their chairs in Columbia University. 



