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UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



By the will of the late Mrs. Peter Redpath, 

 of the Manor House, Chiselhurst, England, 

 McGill University will receive $150,000 for 

 the Peter Redpath Museum and the Peter 

 Redpath Library. Of this sum $120,000 is 

 for the library and $30,000 for the museum. 

 The library will receive in addition the books 

 of the Manor House Library. Both the li- 

 brary and the museum were the gift of Mr. 

 Redpath. 



It is announced that Mrs. Russell Sage has 

 given an additional $50,000 for the school at 

 Sag Harbor. 



Tale University has received a bequest of 

 $10,000 from Mr. John J. Abernethy for the 

 establishment of a fellowship. 



The New York Evening Post states that in 

 a few weeks ground will be broken at Home- 

 wood, the new site of Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity, for the botanical gardens and laboratory, 

 while the clearing away of the ground set 

 apart for the houses of the faculty is being 

 pushed rapidly. It is expected that the botan- 

 ical gardens and laboratory will be in use by 

 the close of the year. 



The new building for the College of Physi- 

 cians and Surgeons, San Francisco, was for- 

 mally dedicated on January 18. Dr. Winslow 

 Anderson, president of the institution, deliv- 

 ered the address. 



New buildings are being erected for the 

 Schools of Mines and Metallurgy of the Penn- 

 sylvania State College, of which Professor 

 Wadsworth is dean. These buildings are to 

 be thoroughly equipped and when finished will 

 cover a ground space of some twenty-one 

 thousand square feet. 



According to the British Medical Journal 

 a meeting of professors of the University of 

 Warsaw, now closed, was recently held under 

 the presidency of Professor Amalizki with the 

 object of selecting a place for the establish- 

 ment of a new Russian university. The 

 choice appeared to be between Saratow and 



Woronesch. The former city was said to be 

 prepared to contribute a million roubles, while 

 the latter offered 950,000 roubles. 



At the annual midwinter commencement of 

 the University of Nebraska, held on the thirty- 

 eighth anniversary of its charter day on Feb- 

 ruary 15 thirty-four students were graduated. 

 Nineteen of these were bachelors of arts, thir- 

 teen bachelors of science and two bachelors of 

 law. 



The summer school of New York Univer- 

 sity will offer a number of courses in advanced 

 chemistry under Professor Arthur B. Lamb, 

 director of the Havemeyer Laboratory, and 

 Professor Martin A. Rosanoff. These courses 

 will include a lecture course in physical chem- 

 istry, a laboratory course in physical chem- 

 istry, a laboratory course in electrochemistry, 

 a laboratory course in organic synthesis, and 

 a laboratory course in organic analysis. In 

 addition to these courses the usual work in 

 general chemistry, qualitative analysis and 

 quantitative analysis will be offered. 



General James A. Beaver, ex-governor of 

 Pennsylvania, judge of the Superior Court 

 and president of the board of trustees of the 

 Pennsylvania State College, has been elected 

 president of that institution. Dr. Judson P. 

 Welsh, who was principal of the Bloomsburg 

 State Normal School for many years, has been 

 elected vice-president and business manager. 



A CHAIR of industrial chemistry has been 

 established at the University of Kansas to be 

 occupied by Professor Robert Duncan. 



Dr. Shepherd Ivory Franz, psychologist to 

 the Government Hospital for the Insane, has 

 been appointed professor of experimental psy- 

 chology in the George Washington University. 



At the College of the City of New York 

 George M. Hayes, of St. John's College, has 

 been appointed tutor in mathematics, and the 

 following tutors have been promoted to in- 

 structorships : Dr. Coffin, physics; Dr. Gut- 

 man, chemistry; Dr. Cohen, mathematics. 



Professor Thomas Loveday, professor of 

 philosophy at the South African College, Cape 

 Town, has been appointed librarian to the 

 University of Sheffield. 



