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vided into three classes — the ' regular attending 

 students/ students for lectures only, and lec- 

 ture-visitors. As regular students, without any 

 exception, siich young men will be accepted who 

 have acquired the knowledge necessary for be- 

 ing admitted into any university, said knowl- 

 edge to have been acquired at a German ' Gym- 

 nasium,' a German ' Oberrealschule ' (a high 

 school in which sciences as well as art and lan- 

 guages are taught), a Bavarian ' industrial 

 school,' or the Saxonian Poly technical Acad- 

 emy of Chemnitz. As to foreigners, the min- 

 istry of ecclesiastical affairs and public edu- 

 cation is to decide whether their scholastic 

 erudition is sufficient to admit them. German 

 subjects, other than Prussian, will be admitted 

 under the same conditions as Prussian sub- 

 jects. As students admitted to hear the lec- 

 tures only (i. e., without privilege of being 

 graduated by the board of examiners), young 

 men will be admitted, not possessed of the edu- 

 cation necessary for being admitted into a 

 German university, but having acquired the 

 schooling necessary for performing only one 

 year's railitary service. The admission of 

 such students is put into the hands of the 

 rector of the technical high school. As lecture 

 visitors such persons may be admitted to the 

 lectures or demonstrations who are not eligible 

 to either of the two classes just mentioned. 

 The admission of lecture visitors will be 

 granted by the rector, with the consent of the 

 proper professor. There is particularly one 

 new restriction in these regulations, viz., that 

 .all encouragements for foreigners are dropped. 

 Setting aside the lecture visitors, only such 

 foreigners will be admitted as are capable 

 of complying with the German educational re- 

 quirements or who are in possession of an 

 equivalent foreign certificate of learning. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Announcement is made of an anonymoixs 

 gift to the Lebanon Valley College, Annville, 

 Pa., of a hall of science to cost $80,000. Work 

 on the building is to begin at once. 



Mr. E. G. Bawden, London, has entrusted 

 Mr. Edgar Speyer ' with a sum in cash and 

 .securities of about £100,000 to be applied to 



purposes of charity and benevolence, and for 

 the advancement of knowledge, especially in 

 aid of human suifering.' This sum has been 

 apportioned for various purposes in the form 

 of capital to be vested in trustees, and to be 

 known in each case as the ' Bawden Pund.'- 

 The largest allotment is £16,000 to complete 

 the sum of £200,000 required to bring about 

 the incorporation of the University College in 

 the University of London. 



GiRTON College, Cambridge, has received 

 £2,000 by the will of Miss Elizabeth A. Man- 

 ning. 



An imperial ukase has been issued at St. 

 Petersburg, granting a liberal measure of 

 autonomy to universities, pending the elabora- 

 tion of permanent regulations. This is ex- 

 pected to ensure the opening of the univer- 

 sities and the resumption of the educational 

 life of Russia, which has been at a stand still 

 since February. The ukase places the election 

 of rectors and deans of the universities, who 

 have hitherto been appointed by the minister 

 of education, in the hands of the university 

 professors. The duty of seeing that acad- 

 emic life follows a normal and orderly course 

 is entrusted by the ukase to professorial coun- 

 cils, to which has been confided jurisdiction 

 over offences by students. 



Dr. Chase Palmer, for some years professor 

 of chemistry at the Central University of 

 Kentucky, has accepted the position of pro- 

 fessor of chemistry in the State College at 

 Lexington, Ky., Dr. J. PI. Kastle, who occu- 

 pied the latter position, having recently gone 

 to Washington as chief of the division of 

 chemistry in the Hygienic Laboratory of the 

 Marine Llospital Service. 



Dr. Friend E. Clark, who has for two years 

 been instructor in industrial chemistry in the 

 Pennsylvania State College, has been ap- 

 pointed professor of chemistry in the Central 

 University of Kentucky, at Danville. 



Dr. J. Bendixson has been elected professor 

 of mathematics in the University of Stock- 

 holm. 



Dr. Oskar Brefeld, professor of botany at 

 Breslau, has retired owing to failing eyesight. 



