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UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 We noted last week that by the will of the 

 late Mrs. Frederick Sheldon, Harvard Uni- 

 versity received $300,000 for the enlargement 

 of the library building or such other purpose 

 as may be preferred, and the residue of the 

 estate for establishing traveling scholarships. 

 The Harvard Bulletin states that the residue 

 of the estate will probably exceed half a mil- 

 lion dollars, and the total bequest will thus 

 probably amount to more than $800,000. Mrs. 

 Sheldon was the widow of the late Edward 

 Sheldon, of the class of '42. 



By the will of the late Mrs. Eylands, the 

 Victoria University, Manchester, will receive 

 the sum of £50,000; Owens College, Man- 

 chester, £25,000, and Mansfield College, Ox- 

 ford, £10,000. 



Professor Wilhelm Erb has given the Uni- 

 versity of Heidelberg a donation of $20,000, 

 one half to be applied for the benefit of stu- 

 dents and assistants and their maintenance in 

 hospital when required, the other towards the 

 promotion of scientific research by students. 



The council of the senate of Cambridge 

 University have had under their consideration, 

 as we learn from the London Times, the de- 

 sirability of giving the university the power 

 of conferring upon professors who resign their 

 ofiioe after having done good service to the 

 university some honor which shall be a public 

 recognition of that service. The title of pro- 

 fessor emeritus has been employed for this 

 purpose in various universities; but the exist- 

 ing statutes of this university contain no 

 express provision giving power to confer it. 

 The council think that it would be desirable 

 to obtain that power, to be exercised in eases 

 in which the university may desire to confer 

 the honor. They accordingly recommend that 

 the necessary steps be taken for altering the 

 statutes by the insertion of a paragraph giving 

 the university power, upon the retirement of 

 a professor, either at the date of his retirement 

 or subsequently, to appoint him, on the recom- 

 mendation of the council of the senate, with 



the approval of the general board of studies, 

 as a professor emeritus in the subject of the 

 professorship previously held by him. A pro- 

 fessor emeritus shall not as such receive any 

 stipend. He shall be subject to no conditions 

 as to duties or residence. 



The inauguration of Dr. Edward Dwight 

 Eaton as president of Beloit College took 

 place March 4. 



Professor Thos. H. Montgomery, Jr., of 

 the University of Texas, has been appointed 

 professor of zoology at the University of Penn- 

 sylvania to fill the vacancy caused by the re- 

 moval of Professor Edwin G. Conklin to 

 Princeton University. Professor Montgomery 

 was assistant professor at Pennsylvania from 

 1898 to 1903. 



In the faculty of the college of medicine of 

 the University of Wisconsin Dr. Arthur S. 

 Loevenhart, of Johns Hopkins University, has 

 been appointed to the chair of pharmacology 

 and toxicology, and Dr. Charles H. Bunting, 

 of the University of Virginia, to the chair of 

 pathology. Dr. Bunting was graduated from 

 Wisconsin in 1896, and received his medical 

 training at Johns Hopkins. He was subse- 

 quently on the faculty of the University of 

 Pennsylvania and on the faculty of the Johns 

 Hopkins University. For the past two years 

 he has been at the University of Virginia. 

 Dr. Loevenhart is also a graduate of the Johns 

 Hopkins Medical School, where, since 1904, he 

 has been associate in physiological chemistry 

 and pharmacology. 



Professor F. D. Heald, of the University 

 of Nebraska and botanist of the Nebraska 

 Experiment Station, has been offered the pro- 

 fessorship of botany in the University of 

 Texas, at a considerably increased salary. It 

 is not yet known whether or not he will accept 

 the offer. 



Dr. Wm. a. Hammond, assistant professor 

 in Cornell University and special lecturer in 

 philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania 

 for the year 1907-8, has been appointed Sage 

 professor of ancient philosophy at Cornell. 



Dr. E. a. Darling, has been appointed as- 

 sistant professor of hygiene at Harvard Uni- 

 versity. 



