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[N. S. Vol. XXXI. No. 803 



VNITERSirr AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



It is reported that Tale University will 

 appropriate from $60,000 to $80,000 a year 

 for the increase of salaries of professors. 



Wesleyan University has been admitted to 

 the Carnegie Foundation for the Advance- 

 ment of Teaching. 



Dr. Egbert Kennedy Duncan, professor of 

 industrial chemistry at the University of 

 Kansas, has accepted a call to the University 

 of Pittsburgh. 



Charles H. Shattuck, Ph.D. (Chicago), 

 has been appointed professor of forestry in the 

 University of Idaho. 



Dr. James F. Abbott has been promoted to 

 a professorship of zoology in George Wash- 

 ington University. 



At Cornell University promotions to full 

 professorships have been made as follows : J. I. 

 Hutchinson and Virgil Snyder, in mathe- 

 matics; A. W. Browne, in chemistry; E. M. 

 Chamot, in sanitary chemistry; E. H. Wood, 

 in engineering, and H. D. Hess, in machine 



council of Stellenbosch College, South Africa, 

 to the chair of zoology and geology in succes- 

 sion to Professor R. Broom. 



Mr. Nathan C. Grimes, instructor at the 

 University of Wisconsin, has been appointed 

 professor of mathematics in the University of 

 Arizona. 



At Stanford University, Dr. E. C. Dickson 

 has been appointed assistant professor of 

 pathology and Mr. Thomas B. Hine, acting 

 instructor in chemistry. 



Miss Annie Louise MacLeod, of Nova Sco- 

 tia, has been appointed resident research fel- 

 low in chemistry at Bryn Mawr College. 



At Haverford College, Professor A. H. 

 Wilson, of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 

 has been appointed associate professor of 

 mathematics, as successor to Professor W. H. 

 Jackson, who returns to England. 



Clinton E. Stauffer, Ph.D., instructor in 

 geology at Western Eeserve University, has 

 been appointed assistant professor of geology 

 in the -School of Mining (Queen's University) 

 at Kingston, Ontario. 



Dr. E. J. GoDDARD, Linnean Macleay fellow 

 in zoology, Sydney, has been appointed by the 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



the length of service pensions of the 

 carnegie foundation 



To THE Editor of Science: So many errors 

 have been put forth under the protection of 

 anonymity, and this is deservedly in such 

 disrepute, that the only excuse I can give for 

 not signing my name to this note is the seK- 

 evident one that some of those to whom I re- 

 fer might thereby be recognized. 



I have read with interest the rather caustic 

 criticisms on the change of the policy of the 

 Carnegie Foundation with reference to vol- 

 untary retirement after twentj'-five years of 

 service, and must confess that some of these 

 criticisms read to me, doubtless wrongly, as 

 though they proceeded by some process of in- 

 direct inspiration from persons who had 

 hoped to give up their teaching duties and 

 that this disappointed hope had rendered 

 them somewhat acid. 



As a comparatively young man (38) whose 

 twenty-five years of teaching and scientific 

 work will not end for nine years more, may I 

 give my opinion on the new ruling? 



I regard the Carnegie Foundation as one 

 of the most signally useful methods that 

 could be devised to elevate the dignity and 

 honor of the profession of teaching. I do not 

 see how any teacher can fail to feel more as- 

 sured as to his own future and that of his 

 family as a result of these rather generous 

 provisions. Very few of us save anything and 

 it certainly gives one a sense of greater ease 

 and freedom from worry to know that when 

 those days come when one must perforce feel 

 that advancing age renders impossible the old- 

 time efficiency, provision has been made for 

 the passing of the closing years of life in dig- 

 nity and honorable independence; would that 

 the provisions of the foundation could be 

 extended to every teacher in state, church, 

 city and country schools. 



Why should any one wish to retire after 



