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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XIX. No. 493. 



Brewster, Ph.D., of Columbia University, and 

 by Professor Ligiitner Witmer, Ph.D., of the 

 University of Pennsylvania, on literature and 

 psychology respectively. Por particulars of 

 the session. Professor Stephen F. Weston, of 

 Yellow Springs, Ohio, should be addressed. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 Mrs. Amanda W. Eeed, has provided in her 

 will for the foundation of an institution at 

 Portland, Ore., to be known as Heed Institute, 

 in memory of her husband, the late Simon G. 

 Eeed. The bequest will amount to about 

 $2,000,000. Her will specifies that the insti- 

 tute shall combine instruction in the fine arts 

 and sciences and manual training, and that 

 it shall be conducted with especial regard to 

 the needs of young men and women compelled 

 to earn their own living. 



President B. I. Wheeler, of the University 

 of California, president of the department of 

 Higher Education of the National Educa- 

 tional Association, has completed the program 

 for the session of the department which is to 

 be held at the St. Louis Exposition on June 29 

 and July 1. The two subjects chosen for dis- 

 cussion are ' Coeducation in Relation to Other 

 Types of College Education for Women ' and 

 ' The Present Tendencies of College Athletics.' 

 The speakers with their subjects include: 

 June 29— President Charles F. Thwing, West- 

 ern Reserve University, * The Women's Annex 

 Versus Coeducation ' ; President Charles W. 

 Dabney, University of Tennessee, * The Ex- 

 perience of the South in Regard to Coeduca- 

 tion and Other Forms of Education for 

 Women ' ; President R. H. Jesse, University 

 of Missouri, ' Coeducation as It Has Been 

 Tested in the State Universities ' ; President 

 G. Stanley Hall, Clark University; President 

 James B. Angell, University of Michigan. 

 July 1 — Chancellor E. Benjamin Andrews, 

 University of Nebraska, ' The General Tend- 

 ency of College Athletics ' ; President W. H. 

 P. Faunce, Brown University, ' College Ath- 

 letics ' ; Chancellor Frank Strong, University 

 of Kansas, ' The Highest Standards of Col- 

 lege Athletics — Outright Amateurism.' 



The College Entrance Examination Board 

 will hold examinations during the week, June 



20 to 25, at about one hundred and fifty points 

 throughout the United States and at London, 

 Paris, Geneva, Strasburg, Dresden and Frank- 

 fort. The readers in the sciences are: Mathe- 

 matics — Professor R. W. Prentiss, Rutgers 

 (chief reader) ; Professor C. E. Bikle, Teachers 

 College; Miss Elsa Bowman, Brearley School; 

 R. H. Bright, Paterson High School, H. H. 

 Denio, Collegiate School; C. S. Forbes, Co- 

 lumbia; J. R. Gardner, Irving School; W. A. 

 Johnson, Hasbrouck Institute; E. H. Koch, 

 Jr., Mackenzie School, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. ; 

 W. E. MacDonald, Massachusetts Institute of 

 Teclmology; R. Morris, Rutgers, Miss Gert- 

 rude Smith, Vassar; Professor Virgil Snyder, 

 Cornell ; . Miss Roxana H. Vivian, Wellesley ; 

 H. E. Webb, Stevens Preparatory School, Ho- 

 boken. Physics — Professor A. W. Goodspeed, 

 Pennsylvania (chief reader) ; Professor J. M. 

 Jameson, Pratt Institute; Dr. G. B. Pegram, 

 Columbia. Chemistry — Professor J. F. Nor- 

 ris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 (chief reader) ; Professor C. M. Allen, Pratt 

 Institute; Dr. V. J. Chambers, Columbia. 

 Botany — Professor W. W. Rowlee, Cornell 

 (chief reader) ; Miss Elsie Kupfer, Wadleigh 

 High School. Geography — Professor R. E. 

 Dodge, Columbia (chief reader) ; W. W. Clen- 

 dennin, Wadleigh High School. 



The Rev. Samuel Black McCormick, a 

 Presbyterian clergyman, since 1897 president 

 of Coe College, at Cedar Rapids, la., has been 

 elected chancellor of the Western University 

 of Pennsylvania. 



Dr. F. G. Donnan, lecturer in chemistry in 

 the Royal College of Science, Dublin, has been 

 elected -to the chair of physical chemistry re- 

 cently founded by Sir John T. Brunner in the 

 University of Liverpool. 



At Cambridge Mr. W. J. Sell, F.R.S., and 

 Mr. H. J. H. Fen ton, F.R.S., are to be ap- 

 pointed university lecturers in chemistry, and 

 Mr. A. Harker, F.R.S., a university lecturer 

 in petrology. 



Dr. 0. AscHAN has been appointed professor 

 of chemistry in the University of Helsingfors. 



Dr. George Landsberg, of Heidelberg, has 

 been called to an associate professorship of 

 mathematics at Strasburg. 



