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SCIENCE. 



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Survey, the production of gold in the United 

 States during 1904 amounted to 3,910,729 fine 

 ounces, valued at $80,835,648. This represents 

 an increase of $7,243,948 over the production 

 of 1903. After a period of very rapid advance 

 in the gold production from 1892 to 1900, 

 during which an increase from $33,000,000 to 

 $79,171,000 took place, there followed two 

 years of nearly stationary output and one year, 

 1903, of very decided decrease. It is, there- 

 fore, very gratifying to find that the produc- 

 tion has risen again with a bound to record 

 figures, the largest previous output in 1902, 

 amounting to $80,000,000. The production of 

 silver in 1904 amounted to 55,999,864 fine 

 ounces, valued at $32,035,378. This represents 

 an increase of 1,699,864 ounces over the pro- 

 duction of 1903, and an increase in value of 

 $2,713,378. There is, therefore, a total in- 

 crease of $9,957,326 in the value of gold and 

 silver produced in 1904 over that of 1903. The 

 record output of silver in 1892, amounting to 

 63,500,000 fine ounces, has not been reached 

 in late years, nor has the commercial value 

 attained the figures of that year, which 

 amounted to $82,101,000. The price of silver 

 in 1904, according to the director of the mint, 

 varied from 55 to 61 cents per fine ounce, 

 representing a decided increase over the prices 

 of 1903, which varied from 48 to 59 cents and 

 only exceptionally rose to 61 cents in October, 

 1903. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 The council of Columbia University has 

 adopted resolutions as follows : 



Resolved, (1) That in the opinion of the Uni- 

 versity council the present game of football should 

 be prohibited at Columbia University and the 

 council recommends that the president take im- 

 mediate action to that end. 



(2) That the president be advised to take svich 

 further steps as may seem to him proper to cor- 

 rect the conditions at Columbia, which have pro- 

 duced the demoralization of sentiment above re- 

 ferred to and to restore the athletics to their 

 proper place in the life of the university, with 

 the view, 



(a) Of encouraging the widest possible partici- 

 pation of the student body in athletic sports, in- 

 stead of leaving them, as at present, in the hands 

 of a small class of trained athletes. 



(6) Of substituting, as far as possible, competi- 

 tion in sports among the students at Columbia in 

 the place of intercollegiate competitions, and of 

 restricting the latter, with the exception of row- 

 ing, as far as possible, to the home grounds of the 

 Columbia teams. 



(c) Of eliminating the professional aspects of 

 athletic sports by reducing to a minimum the 

 time devoted to training and by placing the 

 sports and the training therefor under the im- 

 mediate direction of the university authorities. 



(d) Of suppressing the commercialism attend- 

 ant on intercollegiate competitions in certain 

 sports by a radical reduction of expenses and the 

 elimination of gate receipts. 



At a meeting of the presidents of the two 

 California universities with the committee on 

 athletics of each institution held recently in 

 San Francisco the following action was taken : 



Resolved, by the joint athletic committees of the 

 University of California and the Leland Stanford 

 Junior University, that we recommend to the 

 faculties of the two universities in question that 

 the intercollegiate football contest shall be no 

 longer held under the regulations of the present 

 football rules committee. We recommend as a 

 siibstitute the present English Rugby game, or 

 else the present American game with such modifi- 

 cations as shall promise to eliminate the existing 

 evils. 



A committee of men prominent as coaches 

 and players of the game from among the 

 alumni of the two institutions was selected 

 to work with the faculty committees in 

 framing a final decision in the matter. 



Dr. Henry T. Eddy, professor of engineer- 

 ing and mechanics in the University of Min- 

 nesota, has been elected dean of the Graduate 

 School at that university; and Dr. George F. 

 James, professor of pedagogy, has been elected 

 dean of the School of Education, just estab- 

 lished. 



Professor Simon J. McLean, for three years 

 associate professor of economics and acting- 

 head of the department in Stanford Univer- 

 sity, has accepted a call to a chair in his 

 alma mater, Toronto University, and will 

 take up his duties there in January. 



Jas. E. Withrow, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania), 

 has accepted an instructorship in chemistry 

 in the University of Illinois. 



