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Mr. Theodore P. Shonts will provide Drake 

 University of Des Moines with fifty service 

 scholarsliips of $50 each. 



Miss Anna T. Jeanes, of Philadelphia, has 

 created an endovsnnent fund of $1,000,000, the 

 income from which is to be applied toward 

 the maintenance and assistance of elementary 

 schools for negroes in the southern states. 



Mrs. Eussell Sage has given $75,000 to the 

 Syrian Protestant College in Beirut, Turkey. 



Mr. Byron E. Walker has given his paleon- 

 tological and geological collections and library 

 to the University of Toronto. 



The statute of limitations was held to bar 

 the Catholic University of America from re- 

 covering $78,000 from John F. Waggaman, 

 said to be due on notes executed to the late 

 Thomas E. Waggaman. 



It is said that the Louisiana State Univer- 

 sity vnll establish this year a medical depart- 

 ment in New Orleans. 



The hundredth anniversary of the birth of 

 Ezra Cornell was celebrated at Cornell Uni- 

 versity on April 26 and 27. On the first day 

 the exercises were held in the Armory, and 

 were presided over by President Schurman; 

 an address on behalf of the trustees by Mr. 

 Andrew Carnegie, who was unable to be pres- 

 ent through illness, was read; an address on 

 behalf of the faculty was made by Dr. Andrew 

 D. White, the first president of the university, 

 and addresses! were made on behalf of the 

 alumni and students. On April 27 the new 

 agricultural building was dedicated, and ad- 

 dresses were made by Governor Hughes, ex- 

 Governor Batchelder, of New Hampshire, and 

 Professor Liberty H. Bailey, dean of the Col- 

 lege of Agriculture. 



In connection with the Yale Summer School 

 Professor Gregory, who is one of the directors 

 of the Connecticut Geological Survey, has 

 arranged to take a class of teachers to the 

 various parts of the state, where the most 

 typical formations are to be found, and wiU 

 lecture in the field to the class. 



It is said that the principalship of the Uni- 

 versity of Toronto has been offered to Dr. 



Robert A. Falconer, principal of Pine Hill 

 College, Halifax. 



Dr. John Scholte Nollen, professor of 

 German in Indiana University, has been 

 elected president of Lake Forest University, 

 Lake Forest, HI. He takes charge on June 

 20, 1907. 



At the University of Wisconsin, Professor 

 H. L. Eussell has been elected dean of the 

 College of Agriculture to succeed Dean W. A. 

 Henry, who has resigned. Otis A. Gage, now 

 of the faculty of Cornell University, has been 

 appointed assistant professor of physics; A. 

 N. Winchell, now of the Montana School of 

 Mines, assistant professor of mineralogy and 

 petrography, and O. H. Hawes, of Cambridge 

 University, lecturer in anthropology. The fol- 

 lowing promotions have also been made : From 

 associate professor to professor, E. C. EUiott, 

 education; Victor Lenher, chemistry. From 

 assistant professor to associate professor, D. 

 H. Otis, animal nutrition. From instructor 

 to assistant professor, W. F. Dearborn, educa- 

 tion; E. H. Denniston, botany; O. J. Davis, 

 hydraulic engineering; J. H. Vosskuehler, ma- 

 chine design; J. G. Moore, horticulture; C. A. 

 Ocock, engineering. 



Benjamin L. Miller, A.B. (Kansas), Ph.D. 

 (Johns Hopkins), of the department of 

 geology at Bryn Mawr College, has been ap- 

 pointed professor of geology at Lehigh Uni- 

 versity. 



Dr. H. W. Stuart, of Lake Forest Univer- 

 sity, has been appointed assistant professor of 

 philosophy, and Dr. George H. Sabine has 

 been appointed instructor in philosophy at 

 Stanford University. 



Legh W. Eeid, associate professor of mathe- 

 matics in Haverford College, has been ap- 

 pointed professor of mathematics. 



At Cornell University, Mr. E. P. Lay has 

 been appointed instructor in experimental en- 

 gineering, and Eobertson Mathews in machine 

 design. 



Dr. Grimbert has been appointed to a 

 newly-established chair of biological chemistry 

 in the School of Pharmacy of the University 

 of Paris. 



