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SCIENCE 



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the result of scientific research and that large 

 numbers of trained research chemists are 

 employed. 



VyiYERSITY A'^'D EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Professoe William Trufant Foster, who 

 holds the chair of education at Bowdoin Col- 

 lege, has accepted the presidency of the Reed 

 Institute, a college to be established at Port- 

 land, Oregon, through a fund given by Mrs. 

 Amanda Eeed, now amounting to about $3,- 

 000,000. 



The board of regents of the University of 

 Texas has approved the plans submitted by the 

 faculty of the medical department for building 

 and equipping a laboratory of preventive medi- 

 cine and public health. 



According to statistics of attendance at the 

 University of Chicago for the year ending in 

 June, 1910, which have just become available, 

 an increase is shown over that for the pre- 

 ceding year, the actual figure being 6,007 stu- 

 dents for the year 1909-10, as against 5,659 

 for the year 1908-9. 



The London County Council has made a 

 maintenance grant of £8,000 to the Imperial 

 College of Science and Technology, South 

 Kensington, and in return it secures the privi- 

 lege of nominating 25 students for one year's 

 free instruction at the college. 



Mr. H. O. Allisox, for a number of years 

 connected with the department of animal hus- 

 bandry of the University of Illinois in beef 

 cattle investigations, has been elected to the 

 position of assistant professor of animal hus- 

 bandry in the University of Missouri. His 

 special work will be the development of the 

 breeding herds of beef cattle and the cattle 

 feeding experiments in the experiment station. 



Mr. C. M. Hilliard (Dartmouth and Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology) has been 

 appointed assistant tutor in biology at the 

 College of the City of New York. 



Mr. Henry Leighton, of the New York 

 State Museum, has been appointed instructor 

 in mining geology in the University of Pitts- 

 burgh School of Mines. 



Promotions at the Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity have been made as follows : Charles K. 



Swartz, Ph.D., collegiate professor of geology; 

 John B. Whitehead, Ph.D., professor of ap- 

 plied electricity; Edward W. Berry, associate 

 in paleobotany; Rheinart P. Cowles, Ph.D., 

 associate in biology; Knight Dunlap, Ph.D., 

 associate in psychology; William W. Holland, 

 Ph.D., associate in chemistry; Carroll M. 

 Sparrow, A.B., instructor in physics; Donald 

 R. Hooker, M.D., associate professor of 

 physiology; Carl Voegtlin, Ph.D., associate 

 professor of pharmacology; George H. Whip- 

 ple, M.D., associate professor of pathology; 

 Eliot E. Clark, M.D., associate in anatomy; 

 Herbert M. Evans, M.D., associate in anat- 

 omy; John H. King, M.D., associate in path- 

 ology; Arthur H. Koelker, Ph.D., associate 

 in physiological chemistry; Milton C. Winter- 

 nitz, M.D., associate in pathology; Charles R. 

 Essick, M.D., instructor in anatomy; Thomas 

 P. Sprunt, M.D., instructor in pathology. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



the professorial question 

 It seems unfortunate that so important a 

 contribution as that of Mr. Chapman's should 

 appear at a time when professors, on vacation 

 bent, are trying to dismiss the professional 

 aspects of their vocation. Yet the charge of 

 timidity and weak concern for their closest 

 interests, which is made with incontrovertible 

 pertinence, is pertinent at any time. Mr. 

 Chapman devotes his article particularly to 

 calling attention to the unjust and unwise set 

 of scruples that seem to stand in the way of 

 the proper assertion of his rights on the part 

 of the professor. I am similarly convinced 

 that a combination of timidity and a distorted 

 scruple is responsible for the reserve in ques- 

 tion. Indeed, I agree so cordially with each 

 one of the positions assumed that I find little 

 to add except by way of enforcement of detail. 

 In my opinion Mr. Chapman has not alone 

 pointed out one of the most serious menaces 

 in the educational situation, but so far as he 

 goes, indicates correctly a few of the steps 

 which seem promising in " unwinding this 

 boaconstrictor " which is strangling scholars 

 and their interests. The first step is to make 

 it good form and a meritorious and generously 

 commended act when a professor speaks of his 



