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than last year. Clover (for hay) acreage 6.3 

 per cent, less and stigar cane acreage 0.4 per 

 cent, more than last year. 



VNIFEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The Harvard Medical School has been be- 

 queathed $22,000 by the will of the late Pro- 

 fessor Samuel Hubbard Scudder, the eminent 

 entomologist. 



Governor Dix has signed a bill that appro- 

 priates $235,000 for the state colleges of Cor- 

 nell University. The Veterinary College re- 

 ceives $140,000 for a new building and $50,000 

 is appropriated for a heating plant. This bill 

 is independent of the annual bill for main- 

 tenance, which has not yet been passed. 



At the Bryn Mawr College commencement 

 announcement was made of a bequest of $150,- 

 000 from Phoebe Anna Thorne, of New York, 

 who died in 1909, to endow an associate pro- 

 fessorship of education and the Phoebe Anna 

 Thorne Model School to be conducted by the 

 college as an experimental high school in con- 

 nection with a graduate school of education. 



Columbia University has received a gift of 

 $10,000 annually for five years from Mr. 

 Charles H. Davis, C.E. ('87), for the support 

 of advanced instruction in highway engineer- 

 ing and Professor Arthur H. Blanchard, of 

 Brown University, has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of highway engineering. Among other 

 gifts announced are $45,000 from the com- 

 mittee appointed to raise the Richard Watson 

 Gilder Memorial Fund to establish the Gilder 

 fellowships in good citizenship; $33,133 from 

 the committee appointed to raise the William 

 T. Bull Memorial Fund, to establish a fund 

 for research in surgery, and $20,000 from an 

 anonymous donor for the equipment of the 

 research laboratories in electro-mechanics. 



Dr. Eugene A. Noble, president of Goueher 

 College, has been elected president of Dickin- 

 son College. 



Miss Ellen Fitz Pendleton, dean, acting- 

 president and associate professor of mathe- 

 matics of Wellesley College, has been elected 

 president of the institution. 



Dr. Michael I. Pupin, professor of electro- 

 mechanics in Columbia University, has been 



designated to serve as director of the Phcenis 

 Research Laboratories. In this capacity. 

 Professor Pupin will be in general charge of 

 the development of the research work in the 

 department of physics. 



In the School of Education of the Univer- 

 sity of Pittsburgh the following appointments 

 have been made: Henry Davidson Sheldon, 

 dean of the School of Education in the Uni- 

 versity of Oregon, has been made professor of 

 the history of education. Dr. Sheldon will 

 spend next year in Europe on leave of absence 

 and will take up his work in Pittsburgh in 

 the fall of 1912. Charles Barr Robertson, 

 director of the schools of practise and pro- 

 fessor of psychology and education in the 

 Cortland, N. T., State Normal School, has 

 been called to the professorship of secondary 

 education, and will organize and direct the 

 practise teaching and the cooperative relations 

 of the high schools and the university. 



The Johnston scholarships, of the Johns 

 Hopkins University, " ofFered primarily to 

 young men who have given evidence of the 

 power of independent research," have been 

 awarded by Johns Hopkins for 1911-12 to 

 James Ryals Conner, Ph.D., in mathematics; 

 Franklin Edgerton, Ph.D., in Sanskrit, and 

 Joseph T. Singewald, Jr., Ph.D., in geology. 

 The Adam T. Bruce fellowships, bestowed 

 upon candidates who are considered " most 

 likely to promote biological science, and es- 

 pecially animal morphology, by original 

 research," have been awarded to Elmer J. 

 Lund, Ph.B., in botany, and David H. Ten- 

 nent, Ph.D., in zoology. 



Dr. Frederick P. Lord, of Iowa City, 

 formerly connected with the department of 

 anatomy of the State University of Iowa, has 

 been appointed as the head of the department 

 of anatomy of Dartmouth Medical School. 



Dr. J. F. Shepakd has been promoted from 

 instructor to assistant professor of psychol- 

 ogy at the University of Michigan. 



A NEW chair of machine design has been 

 created in the engineering department of the 

 University of Michigan, to which Professor 

 Woldenburg, of Charlottenburg, Germany, 

 has been appointed. 



