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[N. S. Vol. XXII. No. 563. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 Mr. John D. Eockefeller has now paid to 

 the General Education Board the $10,000,000 

 in accordance with the announcement made 

 last June. The income, it will be remembered, 

 will be distributed to promote a comprehensive 

 system of higher education in the United 

 States, and it is assumed, though perhaps not 

 correctly, that the larger part will be given to 

 the denominational colleges. The secretary 

 of the board is the Rev. Dr. Wallace Butterick, 

 54 William Street, New York City. 



New York University receives $20,000 by 

 the' will of the late William A. Wheelock. 



The Ontario government has selected the 

 following men to compose a commission to 

 report on the proposed reorganization of the 

 University of Toronto : Professor Goldwin 

 Smith, Sir William Meredith, Byron E. 

 Walker, J. W. Flavelle, the Eev. Canon Cody, 

 the Rev. D. B. Macdonald and A. H. N. 

 Colquhoun. The gathering of information 

 and the preparation of a report for the gov- 

 ernment to act upon at the next session of the 

 legislature will be begun at once. 



The freshman registration of the academic 

 department at Yale University will be about 

 400, and the registration at the Sheffield Sci- 

 entific School will be about the same. The 

 growth of the latter school is noteworthy, the 

 freshmen class having about doubled since 

 1900. 



The entering class at the University of 

 Nebraska nimibers this year 475, and the total 

 registration will be about three thousand. 



As was noted here last week, John M. Till- 

 man, B.L.L., was formally inaugurated presi- 

 dent of the University of Arkansas on Septem- 

 ber 20. The addresses on the occasion were 

 as follows : 



J. C. South : ' For the Board of Trustees.' 

 A. H. Purdue : ' For the Faculty.' 

 J. C. Marshall -. ' For the Alumni.' 

 W. S. Sutton, University of Texas : ' For a 

 Sister University.' 



E. A. McCuLLOCK, Associate Justice Arkansas 

 Supreme Court : ' Introduction of the President.' 

 President John N. Tillman : ' Inaugural Ad- 

 dress.' 



At the opening of the present year. Pro- 

 fessor Henry S. White formerly of North- 

 western University, assumes the duty of pro- 

 fessor of mathematics at Vassar College. 



W. J. Miller, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), has 

 been appointed to succeed Professor C. H. 

 Smyth, Jr., in geology, at Hamilton College, 

 and M. W. Twitchell, Ph.D. (John Hopkins), 

 has been appointed to the chair of geology at 

 South Carolina College, Columbia, 



The list of preceptors with the rank of as- 

 sistant professors appointed under the new 

 preceptorial system at Princeton University 

 has now been made public. There are in all 

 forty-four, all of whom are in languages, phi- 

 losophy, history and political science, except 

 three in mathematics and one in geology. The 

 appointments in mathematics are L. P. Eisen- 

 hart (Princeton), William Gillespie (Prince- 

 ton) and G. A. -Bliss (Missouri), and in geol- 

 ogy, Marcus S. Earr, '92 (Princeton). 



Dr. Henry Raymond Mussey, of New York 

 University, has been appointed associate pro- 

 fessor of economics and politics at Bryn Mawr 

 College in place of Dr. Lindley Miller Keas- 

 bey, who has resigned the chair to be head of 

 the department of economics in the University 

 of Texas. 



Clark Wissler, Ph.D., and Berthold Laufer, 

 Ph.D., have been appointed lecturers in an- 

 thropology at Columbia University. 



Mr. E. D. Chase has been added to the 

 teaching force at the Gayley Chemical Labora- 

 tory of Lafayette College. 



Dr. Roger C. Wells, formerly instructor in 

 Harvard University, has been appointed in- 

 structor in physical chemistry at the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania. Dr. Wells has begun a 

 study of electrical conduction in melted salts. 



At Cornell University recent appointments 

 are: E. W. Schoder, assistant professor of ex- 

 perimental hydraulics; C. F. Harding, assist- 

 ant professor of electrical engineering, and 

 R. M. Robertson, instructor in electrical en- 

 gineering. 



W. C. Sabine, assistant professor of physics 

 at Harvard University, has been promoted to 

 a professorship. 



