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SCIENCE. 



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lands to be used by it for the purpose of main- 

 taining and operating thereon a fish hatchery, 

 reported it without amendment, and submitted 

 a report thereon. 



TBE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY. 



The Ohio State University has just emerged 

 from a somewhat strenuous struggle to have 

 the legislature of Ohio declare a policy for 

 higher education. The necessity for such a 

 declaration arose from the fact that there are 

 three other educational institutions in Ohio 

 that receive part of their income from the 

 state. One of these is an institution for col- 

 ored people and is not an important factor. 

 The other two are venerable institutions, 

 founded on government land grants, prior to 

 the organization of Ohio as a state. These 

 did not receive state aid until recently, but 

 having once begun to receive it, became in- 

 creasingly ambitious in their plans> until it 

 became necessary for the state to decide 

 whether it should distribute its funds among 

 three institutions, in which event none of 

 them could ever reach a really high position 

 among the colleges of the land, or concentrate 

 it upon one, which should be made a univer- 

 sity, in fact as well as in name. 



The latter course was finally adopted in a 

 specific declaration of principle, so unequi- 

 vocal that it will probably prevent the reopen- 

 ing of the question hereafter. It provides for 

 one state university with an unlimited future; 

 the two other schools are maintained as col- 

 leges of liberal arts, with moderate incomes 

 which are not to be hereafter increased, but 

 they are prohibited from going into the field 

 of technical or professional instruction. The 

 normal schools which are attached to each col- 

 lege are maintained, with provision that the 

 normal work may be increased as need arises. 



In addition to this declaration of policy, 

 the legislature made more liberal appropria- 

 tions to the university than ever before. For 

 the two-year period, 1906-08, the appropria- 

 tions stand as given in the table. This is 

 an increase over the preceding two years of 

 18 per cent. 



The university also suffered from the op- 

 position of the private sectarian colleges for 



many years, but this has gradually become 

 less vigorous and practically ceased two years 

 ago. In the present struggle, the sectarian 

 colleges were either inactive or supporting the 

 state university. 



The happy settlement of these two con- 

 troversies leaves the future path of the insti- 

 tution free from serious obstacles, and it may 

 now be expected to make rapid progress. 



A levy of .16 mill on all taxable prop- 

 erty of the state $ 692,000.00 



Part of a building for electrical and 



mechanical engineering 75,000.00 



A woman's dormitory 60,000.00 



Buildings and equipment for the Col- 

 lege of Agriculture 90,000.00 



90 acres of land for the College of 



Agriculture 45,000.00 



Equipment for chemistry, physics. 

 School of Mines, Civil Engineering 

 and Architecture 54,500.00 



Total appropriation $1,016,500.00 



To which should be added the other 



revenues of the university 242,000.00 



Grand total $1,258,500.00 



THE INSTALLATION OF PRESIDENT 

 HOUSTON. 

 The public exercises attendant upon the in- 

 auguration of Dr. David Franklin Houston as 

 president of the University of Texas will take 

 place at the Main University, Austin, on 

 April 18-19, 1906. Advantage has been taken 

 of this occasion to hold three meetings for 

 the consideration of educational questions : 

 (1) A meeting of the affiliated schools super- 

 intendents and principals for the discussion 

 of advanced entrance requirements, the high 

 school curriculum, character training and 

 similar questions. (2) A meeting of county 

 school superintendents for the discussion of 

 matters appertaining to rural schools. (3) 

 A meeting of representatives of Texas colleges 

 for an interchange of views regarding ad- 

 vanced entrance requirements, transfers and 

 credits, the quality and amount of work to 

 be tequlred of students, and effective moral 

 agents in colleges and universities. Formal 

 installation exercises will be held on the mom- 



