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quired further investigation, and perpetual 

 study as to how these people were to be treated 

 when in the sanatoria. One of the greatest 

 benefits, perhaps, of establishing these sana- 

 toria would be in giving expert medical au- 

 thorities the opportunity of carrying on investi- 

 gations which would enable them in the future 

 to deal with this disease in a way they were 

 not able to do at present. In reply, Mr. Lloyd 

 George said he agreed that the important 

 thing was to encourage scientific investiga- 

 tion, so as to arrive at the best methods of 

 cure. That was provided for in his bill. 

 There would be set aside a special fund for 

 the purposes of scientific research. The gov- 

 ernment would make use of and assist exist- 

 ing sanatoria, those which had been main- 

 tained by voluntary contributions, and even 

 those which were built by private enterprise. 



VNIVEBSIIT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Me. Morton P. Plant has offered to give 

 an endowment of $1,000,000 for the woman's 

 college which is to be established at New 

 London, Conn. It is a condition that the 

 name shall be changed to the Connecticut 

 •College for Women. 



The General Educational Board has made 

 public a list of its latest appropriations for 

 colleges and schools, amounting in all to 

 $634,000. All the gifts to colleges are con- 

 ditional and are applied to endowment only. 

 Other gifts may be applied to current ex- 

 penses. The list follows: 



Appropria- 

 CoUege tion To Be Raised 



Converse, Spartansburg, S. C. $50,000 $100,000 



Drury, Springfield, Mo 75,000 325,000 



Franklin, Franklin, Ind 75,000 325,000 



Franklin and Marshall, Lan- 

 caster, Pa 50,000 225,000 



Huron, Huron, S. D 100,000 100,000 



Pennsylvania, Gettysburg, Pa. 50,000 150,000 



Totals $400,000 $1,225,000 



Appropriations aggregating $68,000 went to 

 the education of southern negroes, $130,000 

 is set aside for demonstration work in agri- 

 culture, also in southern states, under the 

 supervision of Bradford Knapp, and $36,000 



for professors of secondary education in 

 state universities of the south. 



Brown University receives a bequest of 

 $85,000 from Oliver Henry Arnold, M.D., of 

 Providence. 



The Boston Edison Company will give the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology $3,000 

 for a period of years for the purpose of elec- 

 trical research involving a thorough investi- 

 gation of the use of electricity in vehicles 

 employed in trucking or delivery. 



Wesleyan University has purchased 

 ground from the Russell estate as a site for a 

 new observatory, which will be erected from 

 the proceeds of a fund given in 1903 by Mr. 

 Joseph Van Vleck. This gift has been in- 

 creased by others, and now approaches $60,- 

 000. 



Sib Felix Semon, M.D., has transferred to 

 the University of London, for the foundation 

 of a lectureship in laryngology, a sum of 

 money amounting to £1,040 presented to him 

 by the British laryngologists on his retire- 

 ment from practise. 



The Connecticut Agricultural College will 

 conduct from July 5 to 28 a summer school 

 of nature study, agriculture and agricultural 

 pedagogy, of which Professor A. F. Blakeslee 

 is the director. 



Professor George F. Kay, who has been 

 for four years professor of petrology and eco- 

 nomic geology in the University of Iowa, has 

 been elected head of the department of geol- 

 ogy to succeed Dr. Samuel Calvin, who died 

 on April 17. Professor Kay has also been 

 chosen by the Geological Board to succeed 

 Professor Calvin as director of the State 

 Geological Survey. 



Dr. Charles Lincoln Edwards has been 

 appointed assistant professor of biology and 

 assistant director of the marine biological 

 station in the University of Southern Cali- 

 fornia. 



Lieut. Col. Wirt Eobinson, Coast Artillery, 

 has been nominated by the president to be 

 professor of chemistry at West Point, to take 



