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such are far greater than those of any college. 

 For more than ten years past the Cambridge 

 University Association has been laboriously 

 collecting funds for the reendowment of the 

 university and its adequate equipment to meet 

 the educational and academic needs of the 

 modem time. Some four years ago, on the 

 occasion of the opening by his majesty the 

 king of four new university buildings, the 

 erection of ■which was largely promoted by this 

 association, we published three articles by a 

 special correspondent in which it was shown 

 that the needs of the university, all more or 

 less urgent and yet evaluated at a strictly 

 moderate estimate, could not be satisfied by 

 anything much less than a capital sum of a 

 million and a half. It was also pointed out 

 that the buildings of the University of Strass- 

 burg had cost nearly a million ; that the state 

 endowment of the University of Berlin was 

 nearly £170,000 a year ; that private effort had 

 endowed the universities and colleges of the 

 United States with more than £40,000,000 in 

 a few years; and that in two years alone the 

 funds obtained from this source had amounted 

 to nearly £7,000,000. Yet at that time the 

 Cambridge University Association had only 

 succeeded in collecting some £71,000 in the 

 course of seven years, a sum less than the 

 gross annual income of Trinity by more than 

 the gross annual income of Magdalene, and 

 only about a sixth of the stupendous windfall 

 which has now fallen, unsolicited and un- 

 expected — though we are far from saying un- 

 deservedly — into the lap of Trinity. — The 

 London Times. 



THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNITERSITY 

 At the meeting of the Board of Trustees, 

 held on January 8, 1908, certain recommenda- 

 tions of President Needham, affecting the 

 educational work of the university, were 

 adopted. 



1. The courses of instruction in the De- 

 partment of Arts and Sciences were put in 

 charge of two general faculties; namely, the 

 Faculty of Graduate Studies and the Faculty 

 of Undergraduate Studies. The latter faculty 

 is composed of all professors, assistant-pro- 



fessors and instructors who carry on instruc- 

 tion in the several undergraduate colleges and 

 divisions. 



2. In Columbian College, the B.S. degree 

 was discontinued, and the requirements for 

 the B.A. degree were changed so that it might 

 cover the courses formerly embraced by both 

 B.S. and B.A. English, mathematics and a 

 foreign language (Latin, French or German) 

 are specified as the required studies, con- 

 stituting 9 out of 15 points for entrance, and 

 9 out of 60 points for the attainment of the 

 B.A. degree. 



3. In the Law Department beginning with 

 the next academic year the requirements for 

 the LL.B. degree are increased to fourteen 

 hours per week, the full day work beginning 

 at 9 o'clock in the morning. Beginning with 

 the academic year 1909-1910, the requirements 

 for admission to this course are two years 

 of college work or its equivalent, with the 

 provision that students who have not the re- 

 quired college work may be admitted as 

 special students and if they obtain a record 

 of B or better, they may be recommended for 

 the degree. There has been established in 

 this department for half -day students, a course- 

 of ten hours per week, covering three years, 

 to be given between the hours of 4:30 and 

 6 :30, and for the full course of thirty hours 

 the degree of B.L. will be given. A four-year 

 course of twelve hours a week will be open to 

 students who received the B.L. degree and 

 such students as complete the fourth year 

 course and meet the requirements for ad- 

 mission and graduation will be entitled to the 

 degree of LL.B. 



4. In the Department of Medicine, begin- 

 ning with the session of 1909-10, the require- 

 ments for admission will be two years of col- 

 lege work or its equivalent. 



WILLIAM STRATFORD 



Professor William Stratford, for forty- 

 one years a member of the teaching staff of 

 the New York City College, died on January 

 24. He was born at Newtown, L. I., in 1844, 

 graduated at the City College in 1865, and 

 took the degrees of M.D. and Ph.D. at New- 



