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ernment to provide a site, and personally was 

 anxious to see the project take shape. He 

 believed that a university at Hong Kong- 

 would attract a large number of the wealthy 

 Chinese students who now went to Japan, 

 America and Europe, and would increase the 

 prestige and influence of Great Britain 

 throughout the Chinese empire. To provide 

 an adequate endowment for even the modest 

 beginning proposed, a sum of about £100,000 

 would be required. 



Eepresentatives of the faculties of ten New 

 England colleges met in Providence on May 

 6 to discuss problems of university adminis- 

 tration. The institutions represented are Am- 

 herst, Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Harvard, Tufts, 

 Maine, Wesleyan, Williams, Tale and Brown, 

 and the delegates in most cases were the deans. 



The George Washington University has es 

 tablished a separate department of psychology, 

 with Williston S. Hough, Ph.M., Shepherd 

 Ivory Eranz, Ph.D., and William Carl Eue- 

 diger, Ph.D., as teaching staff. There are to 

 be two psychological laboratories, one for ele- 

 mentary class instruction and experiments 

 bearing on educational problems, and one for 

 the advanced research work of graduate stu- 

 dents. 



Several changes will occur in the science 

 departments at Wesleyan University next year. 

 In the biological department, Mr. David Day 

 Whitney, A.B. (Wesleyan 1904) and candi- 

 date for Ph.D. (Columbia) this June, wiU 

 succeed Mr. Budington as instructor in biol- 

 ogy. Two new courses will be added in con- 

 nection with the laboratory courses now of- 

 fered- in general biological laboratory work, 

 one a course in histology for prospective stu- 

 dents of medicine, the other an extensive 

 botany course, designed for those intending 

 either to study forestry or to teach botany. 

 The chemical department will be considerably 

 enlarged and improved, while courses in phys- 

 ical chemistry and electro-chemistry will be 

 introduced. J. W. Turrentine, a graduate of 

 the University of North Carolina (1902), and 

 candidate for Ph.D. at Cornell, where he has 

 been pursuing graduate study for three years, 

 will be instructor in chemistry, to fill the 



place of Mr. Hale, who intends to study for 

 his degree in Cornell. 



At the University of Wisconsin H. A. 

 Parker has been appointed instructor in topo- 

 graphical engineering. The regents also made 

 a number of promotions in the faculty. A 

 N. WincheU, now assistant professor, becomes 

 professor of mineralogy and petrology, and 

 Associate Professor M. C. Beebe has been ap- 

 pointed professor of electrical engineering. 

 H. J. Thorkelson has been made associate pro- 

 fessor in the department of steam engineer- 

 ing. Instructors who have been appointed to 

 assistant professorships are: L. R. Ingersoll, 

 physics; J. G. Fuller, animal husbandry; W. 

 L. Koelker, chemistry; W. G. Marquette, 

 botany; B. M. Allen, anatomy; A. V. Millar, 

 mechanical drawing; E. MacA. Keown, ma- 

 chine design; J. W. Watson, electrical engi- 

 neering; O. P. Watts, chemical engineering. 

 Chauncey Juday was made lecturer in zoology. 

 New instructors are as follows: J. H. Mat- 

 thews, physical chemistry; W. E. Grove, phar- 

 macology; W. H. Brown, pathology; Walter 

 J. Meek, physiology; E. C. Disque, electrical 

 engineering. E. T. Craigo has been appointed 

 instructor in mathematics in the university 

 extension division. Assistants who are pro- 

 moted to instructorships are: F. K. Brainard, 

 physics; W. J. Mead, geology; P. Skadky, 

 mechanical practise, and E. E. Parker, applied 

 engineering. The new assistants include: A. 

 E. Koch, pharmacy; M. C. Otto, philosophy; 

 E. W. Williams, geology; L. F. Ausburger, 

 analytical chemistry; David Klein, chemistry; 

 H. L. Walster, soils, and E. L. Marshall, soils. 



Dr. S. O. Mast, Johnston research scholar 

 at Johns Hopkins University and professor of 

 biological science at Hope College, has been 

 appointed associate professor of biology at the 

 Woman's College of Baltimore. 



Victor E. Emil, Ph.D., Austin teaching 

 fellow in histology and embryology in the 

 Harvard Medical School has been appointed 

 instructor in biology at the George Washing- 

 ton University. 



Mr. Chas. T. Vorhies, of the University of 

 Wisconsin, has been elected to the chair of 

 biology in the University of Utah. 



