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port, upon condition that a similar amount be 

 contributed by other Victorians. Mayor 

 Morley says he has obtained donations within 

 the last fortnight which will bring the sum 

 up to the quarter-million mark. The city will 

 also be asked for an endowment of $250,000. 

 In addition. Lord Strathcona has oflfered to 

 give a site in the Hudson Bay park land, at 

 Cadboro Bay, comprising some twenty acres, 

 but a short distance outside the corporation 

 boundaries. 



There have been regularly enrolled during 

 the past year in the three schools of engineer- 

 ing of Purdue University 1,236 students, and 

 the prospect is that for a time, at least, the 

 number will steadily increase each year. In 

 anticipation of such a result, and to better 

 provide for those already enrolled, the facilities 

 for engineering work are now being greatly 

 increased. A new building to be devoted en- 

 tirely to the School of Civil Engineering is 

 approaching completion and will be furnished 

 ready for occupancy by the beginning of the 

 next school year. An addition to the Electrical 

 Laboratory, now under construction, will sup- 

 ply a new lecture room and extensive addi- 

 tions to the laboratory floor space of this de- 

 partment. 



A NEW course in pedagogy will be estab- 

 lished at Swarthmore College next year. The 

 work will be in charge of Dr. Martin G. 

 Brumbaugh, professor of pedagogy, of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, Professor Edward B. 

 Eawson, principal of the Friends' Seminary, 

 of New York City, and Dr. Bird T. Baldwin, 

 professor of psychology at the West Chester 

 State Normal SchooL 



Nature says : " The report of the committee 

 of the school of geography for 1905 shows that 

 the school now holds a strong position in the 

 university, and is doing valuable work in en- 

 couraging the study of geography and sur- 

 veying, and in providing special courses of 

 geographical lectures suited to the require- 

 ments of the different final honor schools. 

 Both the lectures and practical instruction 

 were well attended throughout the year, al- 

 though there were only a few candidates for 

 the diploma. This year, in addition to the 



ordinary work during term, a special course 

 lasting three weeks, specially suited to those 

 who are engaged in teaching, is being ar- 

 ranged for August. The instruction will be 

 both practical and theoretical, and there 

 ought to be no lack of support for so useful 

 an innovation." 



The following appointments are annotinced 

 at Harvard University: L. J. Johnson, pro- 

 fessor of civil engineering; Albert Sauveur, 

 professor of metallurgy and metallography; 

 James L. Love, assistant professor of mathe- 

 matics; J. L. Morse, assistant professor of 

 pediatries; George G. Sears, assistant pro- 

 fessor of clinical medicine; E. E. Southard, 

 assistant professor of neuropathology, and J. 

 K. Whittemore, assistant professor of mathe- 

 matics. 



Dr. Edward L. Stevenson, professor of his- 

 tory at Rutgers College, has been appointed 

 lecturer on historical geography at Columbia 

 University. 



At Williams College Dr. James Graham 

 has been promoted to an associate professor- 

 ship of mathematics. Mr. Elmer Shepard, 

 instructor in mathematics, is granted leave of 

 absence for next year. 



De. Charles H. Richardson, formerly of 

 Dartmouth College and now carrying on re- 

 search work at the Johns Hopkins University, 

 will give courses in geology at the summer 

 school of Syracuse University. 



Mr. S. p. Hayes, fellow in psychology at 

 Cornell University, has been appointed to 

 take charge of the psychological laboratory 

 of Mount Holyoke College, in place of Dr. 

 Kate Gordon, who has accepted a position in 

 Teachers College, Columbia University, for 

 next year. 



Dr. S. a. Mitchell has been promoted 

 to an instructorship in astronomy at Columbia 

 University. 



According to the daily papers. Miss Mary 

 E. Byrd, professor of astronomy at Smith 

 College and head of the observatory, has re- 

 signed because of conscientious scruples re- 

 garding the acceptance of certain gifts by 

 the college. 



