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[N. S. Vol. XIX. No. 481. 



Annoukcement is made in the N. Y. Even- 

 ing Post in regard to the celebration of the 

 jubilee of the University of Wisconsin, and the 

 inauguration of President Van Hise. Wednes- 

 day, June 8, will be ' semi-centennial ' day. 

 An address of congratulation on behalf of the 

 American universities will be delivered by Dr. 

 Daniel C. Gilman, president of the Carnegie 

 Institution. The universities of the far west, 

 the south and the middle west will be repre- 

 sented respectively by President Benjamin 

 Ide Wheeler, of the University of California, 

 President R. H. Jesse, of the University of 

 Missouri, and President Cyrus Northrop, of 

 the University of Minnesota. President 

 James B. Angell, of the University of Mich- 

 igan, will deliver an address on the function 

 of the State University. The inauguration 

 of the president, Charles R. Van Hise, the 

 eminent geologist, will occur on Tuesday, 

 June 1. President William E. Harper of 

 Chicago University will present the greetings 

 of other American universities. Governor La 

 Pollette, a classmate of Dr. Van Hise, will 

 welcome him to the presidency, and Professor 

 Frederick J. Turner, '84, will respond on the 

 part of the faculty. The state superintendent 

 of public instruction, Mr. Gary, will make an 

 address on the western educational system, 

 which makes the state university the crown 

 of the public school system. 



A CABLEGRAM to daily papers states that the 

 University of Vienna has been closed in eon- 

 sequence of threats of disturbances among the 

 students. The German stiidents were much 

 incensed at the demonstrations of the Czechs 

 'against their German comrades at Prague, 

 Bohemia, and threatened retaliation. 



A soHOLAESiiip valued at $150.00 has re- 

 cently been established in the New Mexico 

 School of Mines, open to the best member of 

 the graduating class of each year, desiring 

 to make a special study of mining machinery 

 in the large manufacturing works. 



Dr. Andrew S. Draper has resigned the 

 presidency of the University of Illinois to be- 

 come commissioner of education of New York 

 State. This is a result of the unification bill 

 which was signed by Governor Odell on March 

 8. Under the new organization the eleven re- 



gents and their terms of office are as follows : . 

 Whitelaw Reid, nine years; Edward Lauter- 

 bach, seven years; Eugene A. Philbin, five 

 years ; Charles A. Gardner, six years ; St. Clair 

 McKelway, two years; Dr. Albert Vander 

 Veer, one year; Charles S. Francis, eleven 

 years ; . William Nottingham, three years ; 

 Daniel Beach, four years; Pliny T. Sexton, 

 ten years; T. Guilford Smith, eight years. 



Professor Frank Thilly, of the University 

 of Missouri, has been elected to the Stuart 

 chair of psychology at Princeton University, 

 vacant by the removal of Professor J. Mark 

 Baldwin to the Johns Hopkins University. 



Owing to the continued illness of Professor 

 John Krom Rees, of Columbia University, he 

 will be absent with leave for the year 1904r-5. 

 The trustees have made Adjunct Professor 

 Harold Jacoby professor and acting head of 

 the department of astronomy during Pro- 

 fessor Rees's absence. Charles L. Poor, Ph.D., 

 formerly assistant professor of astronomy in 

 the Johns Hopkins University, is also made 

 professor of astronomy. The following ad- 

 junct professors have been promoted to pro- 

 fessorships : Frederic S. Lee, Ph.D., to be pro- 

 fessor of physiology; Edmund H. Miller, 

 Ph.D., to be professor of analytical chemistry; 

 Marston T. Bogert, Ph.D., to be professor of 

 organic chemistry; Bashford Dean, Ph.D., to 

 be professor of vertebrate zoology; Cary N. 

 Calkins, Ph.D., to be professor of zoology, and 

 H. E. Crampton, Ph.D., to be professor of 

 zoology at Barnard College. The following 

 instructors have been made adjunct pro- 

 fessors: Eugene Hodenpyl, M.D., in patholog- 

 ical anatomy; Francis C. Wood, M.D., in clin- 

 ical pathology; Frederick R. Bailey, M.D., in 

 normal histology; Lea McI. Luquer, Ph.D., in 

 mineralogy; and Bradley Stoughton, B.S., in 

 metallurgy. 



Dr. Th. Ziehen, of Halle, has been called 

 to the chair of psychiatry at Berlin vacated 

 by the death of Dr. F. Jolly. 



The Isaac Newton studentship at Cam- 

 bridge University, of the value of £250, for 

 study and research in astronomy has been 

 awarded to Zia Uddin Ahmad, B.A., of Trin- 

 ity College. 



