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in Bombay, on January 1, and is gradually 

 overcoming the prejudice incident to a new 

 departure. He further says : " The Indian 

 standard time is in advance five hours and 

 thirty minutes of Greenwich time, being nine 

 minutes faster than Madras time, about 

 twenty-four minutes slower than Calcutta 

 time, and about thirty-nine minutes faster 

 than Bombay local mean time, the longitude 

 of the city of Bombay being Y2° 52' east of 

 Greenwich. Five hours and thirty minutes 

 advance of Greenwich time would be the local 

 mean time for longitude 82° 30' east of Green- 

 wich. This parallel of longitude passes 

 through India at about the eastern mouth of 

 Godavery River in the Bay of Bengal, and 

 near Benares, the sacred city of the Hindus, 

 on the Ganges Eiver. It is the local mean 

 time of this parallel that now sets the stan- 

 dard of time for all India. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEW 8. 



Me. Andrew Carnegie has given $2,000,000 

 in addition to previous gifts for the mainten- 

 ance of the Carnegie Technical Schools, Pitts- 

 burg. It is also announced that Mr. Carnegie 

 has expressed a desire that the Margaret 

 Morrison Carnegie School for Women be com- 

 pleted as soon as possible, and has assured the 

 committee that he will meet the expense. 



By the will of the late Andrew J. Dotger, 

 of South Orange, N. J., the Tuskegee Insti- 

 tute will receive $655,000 on the death of his 

 wife. 



It is announced that about $50,000 has al- 

 ready been raised for the new professorship of 

 lumbering in the Yale Forest School of the 

 $150,000 which is sought as an endowment. 

 In fourteen western states $44,000 was raised 

 from sixty contributors, representing in the 

 main corporations and firms. 



Official announcement has been made of 

 the establishment of a Colonial School to be 

 conducted by Tale and Columbia Universities. 

 The school is intended to prepare students for 

 work in foreign countries, in federal service, 

 business enterprises or missionary or scien- 

 tific work. The courses include six divisions 

 ■ — languages, geography, ethnography, history, 



economics and law. There will be a three- 

 year course for candidates for the consular 

 service and two years for other candidates. 

 Stiidents will receive a joint certificate, 

 signed by the presidents of Tale and Columbia 

 Universities. 



The Morton Memorial Laboratory of Chem- 

 istry of the Stevens Institute of Technology, 

 erected at a cost of $150,000 by the alumni in 

 memory of Dr. Henry Morton, former presi- 

 dent of the institute, is now occupied by 

 classes. 



The main building of the University of 

 Idaho was destroyed by fire on March 30. 



Professor A. W. Wright has announced 

 his intention to retire from active service as 

 professor of experimental physics and direc- 

 tor of the Sloane Physical Laboratory of Tale 

 College, at the close of the present academic 

 year. Professor Wright graduated from Tale 

 University in 1859, received the degree of 

 doctor of philosophy in 1861 and has been 

 professor there since 1872. He will be suc- 

 ceeded by Dr. Henry A. Bumstead, assistant 

 professor in the Sheffield Scientific School. 

 Professor Eugene L. Richards, who graduated 

 from Tale in 1860 and has taught there since 

 1868, will retire from the chair of mathematics 

 at the close of the present year. 



Professor Howard Edwards, who holds the 

 chair of modem languages in the Michigan 

 Agricultural College, has accepted the presi- 

 dency of the Rhode Island institution to suc- 

 ceed Kenyon L. Butterfield, who has been 

 called to the presidency of the Massachusetts 

 College. 



Dr. Ralph B. Perry, assistant professor of 

 philosophy at Harvard University, has de- 

 clined the call to a chair of philosophy at 

 Leland Stanford University. 



Mr. Louis A. Martin, Jr., M.E. (Stevens), 

 M.A. (Columbia), has been promoted from in- 

 structor to assistant professor of mathematics 

 and mechanics in Stevens Institute of Tech- 

 nology. 



Dr. W. a. Thornton has been appointed to 

 the newly-created professorship of electrical 

 engineering at Armstrong College, Newcastle. 



