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tablishment of the Carl Schurz professorship 

 will be celebrated with appropriate exercises 

 on March 31. The speakers on that occasion 

 will include the two German exchange pro- 

 fessors now in this country, Dr. Max Fried- 

 laender, of the University of Berlin, now at 

 Harvard, and Professor Ernst Daenell, of the 

 University of Kiel, Kaiser Wilhelm professor 

 at Columbia. 



It was recently stated in this journal that 

 among other conditional appropriations the 

 General Education Board had made one for 

 the Wesleyan College for women. It should 

 have read Western College for Women, an in- 

 stitution situated in Oxford, Ohio. 



The Kansas legislature has passed the bill 

 to abolish boards of regents of three state 

 schools and to substitute a commission of 

 three to be appointed by the governor and to 

 receive salaries of $2,500 a year each, to man- 

 age the State University, the State Normal 

 College and the State Agricultural College. 



President James has asked the senate of the 

 University of Illinois to appoint a committee 

 to draft a university constitution, marking 

 off the legitimate authority which should be 

 given to such an institution by the legislature, 

 defining the relations between the legislature 

 and the state administration, on the one hand, 

 and the university on the other, and dividing 

 up and marking off the functions of trustees, 

 faculties, students and alumni. Among ques- 

 tions to be considered by such a committee 

 would be the powers of university trustees, the 

 function and power of the president, the 

 duties of deans, the general division of the 

 university itself into faculties, the authority 

 of individual faculties. The authority of the 

 professor in his own department; his tenure 

 of office; his independence of investigation 

 and teaching, freedom of speech, pension 

 system, salary schedule; method of determin- 

 ing the budget, powers of discipline of facul- 

 ties over their own members and over their 

 students are all subjects which would call for 

 consideration in such a constitutional conven> 

 tion. It is proposed to submit this constitu- 

 tion, after it is drafted, to a full discussion, 

 first in the senate, then in the university fac- 

 ulty, and finally, after working it out in detail. 



to submit it to the board of trustees, and after 

 their modifications, to send it to the legisla- 

 ture for enactment into positive law. 



The University of Christiania will cele- 

 brate the centenary of its foundation in De- 

 cember next. Dr. W. C. Brogger, professor of 

 mineralogy and geology, will preside as rector 

 of the university. 



Dr. Alexander Smith, professor of chemis- 

 try in the University of Chicago and dean of 

 the junior colleges, has been elected to the 

 Mitchill professorship of chemistry at Co- 

 lumbia University, vacant by the appointment 

 of Dr. Charles E. Chandler as professor emeri- 

 tus. 



Dr. Alfred Stengel will succeed Dr. David 

 L. Edsall as professor of medicine at the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania. Dr. John H. Musser 

 was unwilling to accept the position. In the 

 same institution Dr. Milton B. Hartzell has 

 been appointed professor of dermatology in 

 succession to Professor Louis A. Duhring, 

 who has recently been appointed professor 

 emeritus. Professor John B. Deaver has been 

 appointed professor of clinical surgery. 



At Columbia University the following have 

 been advanced from instructors to assistant 

 professors: Hal T. Beans, Ph.D., and Floyd 

 J. Metzger, Ph.D., chemistry; Everett J. Hall, 

 assaying; Samuel Osgood Miller, C.E., draw- 

 ing ; Charles W. Thomas, Mech.E., mechanical 

 engineering; Harry P. Parr, Mech.E., me- 

 chanical engineering, and Edward F. Kern, 

 Ph.D., metallurgy. 



Dr. William McKim Marriott, assistant to 

 the chair of physiological chemistry in Cornell 

 Medical School, has been appointed instructor 

 in biological chemistry in Washington Uni- 

 versity, St. Louis. 



Dr. Pehr Olsson-Seffer, director of Te- 

 zonapa Botanical Station, has been appointed 

 professor of botany at the National Univer- 

 sity of Mexico. He will lecture on the history 

 of botany, evolution of plants and ecological 

 plant geography, and give courses in plant 

 physiology. In the absence of botanical lab- 

 oratories at the university, the work in plant 

 physiology will be conducted at the Tezonapa 

 Botanical Station. Dr. Olsson-Seffer has also 



