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blue and white matting; Tangaroa, the su- 

 preme god of Polynesia, a wooden figure with 

 small human-like objects sprouting from his 

 eyes, mouth and other parts of his body, typi- 

 fying his creative power; and a head-dress of 

 black feathers, which completes a mourning 

 costume already owned by the museum. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 SwARTHMORE COLLEGE has Succeeded in its 

 undertaking of raising a half million dollar 

 endowment fund. In addition the heirs of 

 the late Phoebe Anna Thorne, of New York, 

 have given the sum of $200,000 to the college, 

 making a total of $700,000 additional endow- 

 ment. These increased resources will not be 

 used to enlarge the college, but to strengthen 

 it, to improve its present equipment, and to 

 aid it in carrying on its work as a small col- 

 lege. 



The gift of $100,000 in lands by James B. 

 and Benjamin N. Duke, of $50,000 for a new 

 building by James B. Duke, and of $10,000 

 by B. N. Duke for campus improvements, was 

 announced at the commencement exercises of 

 Trinity College, Durham, N. C. 



A GIFT of $20,000 to aid general research in 

 the study of diseases, at the Tale Medical 

 School, has been announced from Francis E. 

 Loomis, of the class of 1864. Further gifts of 

 $10,000, toward the endowment of the uni- 

 versity clinic, and to the Peruvian explora- 

 tion fund, for the Tale expedition under 

 Assistant Professor Hiram Bingham, have 

 also been announced. For the exploration 

 fund a total of about $12,000 has been pledged. 



Mr. James E. Steers, '53, has made a 

 further contribution to the Wolcott Gibbs 

 library of chemistry at the College of the 

 City of New Tork. He has endowed it with 

 $5,000 in five per cent, bonds, the income to 

 be used for upkeep. 



McGiLL UNn'ERSiTY has received from Lady 

 Graham, honorary treasurer of the Dr. A. A. 

 Browne memorial fund, the sum of $10,000, 

 which is to be devoted to the establishment 

 of a fellowship for the advancement of med- 

 ical science. 



We learn from Nature that the Mathe- 

 matical Society and the Society of Applied 

 Physics of Gottingen have given 100,000 

 Marks to a fund for the creation of an insti- 

 tute of mathematics in connection with the 

 University of Gottingen. Two donations of 

 50,000 Marks from manufacturing houses 

 have also been received. 



It is announced that a considerable addi- 

 tion to the laboratory of plant physiology of 

 the Johns Hopkins University will be erected 

 during the present summer. This will in- 

 clude both laboratory and greenhouse space, 

 adapted to advanced work and research. 



An Imperial University Congress will be 

 held at the University of London in the sum- 

 mer of 1912. 



A NEW plan of studies at the Harvard Den- 

 tal School will go into effect October next. 

 During the first half year the students will 

 divide their time between chemistry and gen- 

 eral anatomy, including dissection of the cat, 

 embryology, organology and histology. Dur- 

 ing the second half year they will have human 

 dissection including special work in the anat- 

 omy of the head, and they will also have at the 

 same time physiology. The courses have been 

 entirely recast, but the concentration system 

 of studies has been preserved. The new plan 

 has been adopted in the hope of gain from the 

 logical sequence of the subjects. 



Only the men of the college of letters and 

 science, the school of medicine and the com- 

 merce courses will be expected to wear caps 

 and gowns at the commencement exercises 

 of the University of Wisconsin. Owing to 

 the sentiment among the agricultural, law and 

 engineering students they will not be asked to 

 wear the cap and gown. 



At the University of Michigan assistant 

 professor R. H. Curtiss, of the department of 

 astronomy, has been made junior professor 

 and assistant director of the observatory to 

 take the place of Professor W. J. Hussey, 

 during the latter's absence at La Plata Uni- 

 versity. Assistant professor S. J. Zowski, 

 of the engineering department, has been made 

 junior professor of mechanical engineering 

 and Junior Professor Alfred Holmes White, 

 of the same department, full professor of 



