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found in the class-room facilities in the new 

 engineering building. Inasmuch as the build- 

 ing has been erected mainly for the use of the 

 rapidly enlarging cooperative department, it 

 was felt by Dean Schneider that the old ar- 

 rangement of class rooms was inadequate to 

 meet the needs of the mature men who consti- 

 tute a large proportion of the university stu- 

 dent body. These men come from the various 

 shops and large establishments of the city to 

 the college, and in their daily experience in 

 actual productive work, they have been con- 

 fronted by many problems, not alone of theory, 

 but of practise, and these problems have sug- 

 gested to them certain very definite questions 

 which they bring from the shops to the college 

 for answer by their instructors. It was felt 

 that a change in the ordinary class-room work 

 and arrangement was needed to meet these 

 new conditions. Each section will have a 

 room which will be wholly its own. This 

 room will be furnished with a table 5 X 10 

 feet, comfortable chairs, drawing tables, 

 drawer lockers and magazine racks. Each 

 group will have one such room, which will 

 serve the dual purpose of club and class room. 

 The purpose will be to make these rooms 

 not only places for recitation and instruction, 

 but also sub-social centers. They will contain 

 everything needed to satisfy the social needs 

 of each section, and during the time when 

 classes are actually being conducted in this 

 room, the teacher and the men in the class 

 room will sit around the large table and the 

 practical and theoretical questions which the 

 students have asked will be discussed in open 

 session. This is a marked innovation in in- 

 terior college arrangements, but the whole 

 plan of the engineering college is being evolved 

 to meet the special needs of the cooperative 

 system, and any change whatsoever which 

 promises to more satisfactorily meet the needs 

 of a student body such as will occupy this 

 building, will be thoroughly tried out before 

 its adoption or final rejection. 



TBE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF AMER- 

 ICAN ARCHEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY 

 The International School of American 



Archeology and Ethnology was inaugurated 



in the City of Mexico on January 20. The 

 founding patrons of the school are the govern- 

 ment of the United States of Mexico, the 

 government of Prussia, Columbia University 

 and Harvard University. The University of 

 Mexico has placed at the disposal of the 

 school rooms in which classes may be held, 

 and will facilitate access to libraries, mu- 

 seums, institutes and other scientific centers 

 in which are pursued studies like those of the 

 school, and will aid in the support of the 

 school with an annual subsidy of $6,000. 

 Each patron will in turn appoint and pay a 

 director of the school, and will also allot fel- 

 lowships which will be sufficient to cover the 

 expenses of board and lodging and transpor- 

 tation of a fellow. In accordance with the 

 statutes the government of Prussia has ap- 

 pointed as director Professor Eduard Seler, 

 director of the section of anthropology and 

 archeology in the Eoyal Museum at Berlin, 

 who has already made extensive researches in 

 Mexico. He will hold office for one year, and 

 will be aided by Professor Franz Boas, of 

 Columbia, during his presence in Mexico as 

 professor of anthropology at the National 

 University. Two appointments to fellowships 

 have been made. Dr. Werner Von Harchel- 

 mann by Prussia, and Miss Isabel Ranives 

 Castaneda by Columbia University. 



All the explorations and studies of the 

 school are to be subject to the laws of the 

 country in which the work is undertaken, and 

 all objects found in investigations or explora- 

 tions will become the property of the na- 

 tional museum of the country in which the 

 studies are carried out. In case similar speci- 

 mens of the same kind of object are discovered 

 duplicates will be given to the patrons who 

 supply the necessary funds for the exploration. 

 Most of the explorations will be conducted in 

 the rich fields of Mexico, and the government 

 of that country has already given the neces- 

 sary authorization for the investigations 

 which will soon be begun and are certain to 

 produce interesting and valuable results. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Sir Joseph Laemor, Lucasian professor of 

 mathematics at Cambridge University and 



