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fession. The remaining lectures will be 

 given at 5 p.m. on the following dates : 



August 5 — " The Treatment of Fibrinous and 

 Sero-fibrinous Pleurisy," F. T. Lord, M.D., in- 

 structor in clinical medicine. 



August 9 — " Some Common Ailections of the 

 Spinal Cord" (illustrated), E. W. Taylor, M.D., 

 instructor in neurology. 



August 12 — " Examination of the Stools in In- 

 fancy," J. L. Morse, M.D., assistant professor of 

 pediatrics. 



August 16 — " Intestinal Bacteria," A. I. Ken- 

 dall, Ph.D., instructor in preventive medicine and 

 hygiene. 



August 19 — "The Symptomatology and Treat- 

 ment of Arteriosclerosis," W. H. Smith, M.D., 

 instructor in clinical medicine. 



August 23 — " Dementia Prsecox," E. E. South- 

 ard, M.D., Bullard professor of neuropathology. 



August 26 — " Surgical Diagnosis of Diseases of 

 the Gall Bladder," F. B. Lund, M.D., lecturer on 

 surgery. 



According to the Bulletin of the American 

 Mathematical Society, a meeting of the com- 

 missioners of the international commission of 

 mathematical instruction will be held at Brus- 

 sels during the week of August 9. While the 

 meeting is of particular interest to Belgium 

 and adjacent countries, some of the sessions 

 will be public and of general interest. After 

 the routine business, the chairman, Professor 

 F. Klein, will deliver an address on the aims 

 of the commission and give a report of the 

 work already accomplished; Professor Bourlet 

 will speak on the reciprocal relations between 

 pure and applied mathematics in secondary 

 instruction. A third report of the German 

 sub-committee is in the press, and will be 

 presented at the forthcoming meeting; it is 

 by W. Lietzmann, on the organization of 

 mathematical instruction in the boys' high 

 schools of Prussia. Three reports from Aus- 

 tria and one from Prance are also in the press. 



At the recent Boston meeting of the Na- 

 tional Education Association the department 

 of secondary education passed with only one 

 dissenting vote the following resolutions : 



Whebeas, a wide range of high school subjects 

 is now demanded in view of the varied need3 of 

 society, and the diversified interests of the differ- 

 ent students; and 



Whekeas, manual training, commercial branch- 

 es, music, home-making science and art, agricul- 

 ture, etc., when well taught and thoroughly 

 learned are justly entitled to recognition in col- 

 lege entrance credits; and 



Whekeas, colleges in certain parts of the United 

 States continue to require two foreign languages 

 of every applicant, regardless of his own inter- 

 ests; and 



Whereas, this requirement in addition to such 

 work in English, mathematics, history and science 

 as is essential to the high school course of every 

 student, precludes the possibility of giving ade- 

 quate attention to these subjects; therefore, be it 



Resolved, That it is the sense of this depart- 

 ment that the interests of high school students 

 would be advanced by the reduction of the re- 

 quirement in foreign languages to one such lan- 

 guage, and by the recognition as electives of all 

 subjects well taught in the high schools; and be 

 it further 



Resolved, That it is the sense of this depart- 

 ment that until such modifications are made by 

 the colleges, the high schools are greatly ham- 

 pered in their attempts to serve the best interests 

 of the boys and girls in the public schools. 



UmYERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



During the past few months Allegheny Col- 

 lege, Meadville, Pa., has received the following 

 gifts as part of a $500,000 endowment which 

 is to be completed before April 24, 1912: 

 $100,000 from the Eockefeller General Educa- 

 tional Board, $100,000 from Mrs. Sarah B. 

 Cochran, of Dawson, Pa., and $25,000 from 

 John P. Eberhart ('53), of Chicago, HI. 



The Yale Medical School has received $25,- 

 000 from an anonjTnous donor for the purpose 

 of increasing the efficiency of the dispensary 

 service. 



Dr. Joseph A. Leighton, professor of philos- 

 ophy and chaplain at Hobart College, has been 

 elected to the chair of philosophy at the Ohio 

 State University, vacant by the retirement 

 from active service of Professor "W. H. Scott. 

 Dr. G. G. Eichardson, of the University of 

 Georgia, has been appointed professor of vet- 

 erinary pathology, and Dr. O. V. Brumley has 

 been promoted from associate professor of vet- 

 erinary medicine. Mr. Prank J. Eyder, of the 

 Porest Service, has been appointed instructor 

 in forestry. 



