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number of beneficiaries from the institution 

 of the trust in 1901 until December last was 

 6,325; and tbe total amount paid in fees on 

 behalf of students for class attendances for 

 the year 1905 was iE47,853, as against £45,903 

 in 1904, £44,104 in 1903, and £40,285 in 1902. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 Mrs. W. S. Bullard, of Boston, has given 

 $50,000 to the Harvard Medical School, to 

 establish a chair of neuro-pathology. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has offered to give 

 $75,000 to Amherst College on condition that 

 an equal sum be given by others for the con- 

 struction and endovsrment of a building for 

 biology and geology. 



Mrs. John C. Whitin, who gave the present 

 observatory and the now practically completed 

 addition to Wellesley College, has added a 

 residence for the members of the observatory 

 staff. 



The Clarke School for the Deaf at North- 

 ampton, Mass., will receive an annual income 

 of $1,500 to enlarge the training school facili- 

 ties from the fund recently received by the 

 Association for Teaching Speech to the Deaf, 

 given to them by Dr. Graham Bell. Dr. BeU 

 iDecame heir to about $75,000 from the estate 

 of his father. Dr. Melville BeU, the inventor 

 •of the system of visible speech, and he made 

 over this sum to the association. His condi- 

 tion was that it should be used as a permanent 

 memorial of his father's connection with the 

 subject, the homestead in Georgetown, D. C, 

 to become the office of the association, for 

 printing, etc., and about half the property to 

 have its income devoted to the training of 

 teachers of the oral method. 



The "William H. Baldwin, Jr., Memorial 

 Fund for the Tuskegee Institute amounts to 

 more than $150,000. 



The Goldsmiths' Company has made a grant 

 of £10,000 to the Institute of Medical Sciences 

 Fund, University of London, on the assump- 

 tion that a site will be provided for the insti- 

 tute at South Kensington. 



The Association of American Universities 

 held its annual meeting at the University of 



California, Stanford University and San 

 Francisco last week. The scientific program 

 was as follows : 



Interchange of professors in universities: 

 Papers presented on behalf of the University of 

 California, by President Benjamin Ide Wheeler, 

 and of Harvard University, by Professor William 

 James. 



To what extent should professors engaged in re- 

 search be relieved from instruction: Papers pre- 

 sented on behalf of Leland Stanford Junior Uni- 

 versity, by President David Starr Jordan, and 

 of Yale University, by Professor Theodore S. 

 Woolsey. 



The reaction of graduate work on the other 

 work of the university: Paper prepared by Presi- 

 dent Jacob Gould Schurman, presented by a 

 representative of Cornell University. 



The organization of the American university 

 with especial reference to the changes in the con- 

 ception of a 'faculty': Paper presented on be- 

 half of Princeton University, by Professor An- 

 drew F. West. 



Norton A. Ejent, Ph.D., has been elected to 

 the chair of physics at Boston University and 

 will enter upon his duties at that institution 

 in the fall. 



Dr. James Barnes has been elected associate 

 in physics in Bryn Mawr College. 



Dr. James Burt Miner, B.S. (Minnesota, 

 '97), Ph.D. (Columbia, '03), has been ap- 

 pointed assistant professor of psychology at 

 the University of Minnesota. Dr. Miner is at 

 present assistant professor of philosophy at 

 Iowa University. He will have charge of the 

 new laboratory now being equipped at Min- 

 nesota and also of the work in educational 

 psychology. 



Dr. E. C. Moore, professor of education at 

 the University of California, has been ap- 

 pointed dean of the coming session of the- 

 University of California Summer School. 

 After the summer session Dr. Moore will go to 

 Los Angeles to assume the duties of superin- 

 tendent of schools of that city. 



Professor George H. Palmer, of Harvard 

 University, has been elected lecturer in ethics 

 for next year at Tale University, and Dr. 

 Henry Eutgers Marshall of New York City 

 has been elected lecturer in esthetics and psy- 

 chology. 



