JiTLT 24, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



133 



UmVEBSITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 An additional gift of $60,000 for dormitories 

 at Cornell University is announced from the 

 anonymous donor wlio gave the original 

 $100,000. 



An anonymous donor has made a gift of 

 £10,000 to the general endowment of the Eoyal 

 Technical College, Glasgov?, on condition that 

 another sum of £15,000 is promised within a 

 year. 



The Johns Hopkins Hospital is preparing to 

 celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of its 

 opening next October. The celebration will 

 begin on October 5, with a meeting at which 

 Dr. William H. Welch will preside and Sir 

 William Osier, of Oxford University, wiU 

 speak. On October 7 the new Brady Urological 

 Institute will be dedicated. 



With the registration for the summer ses- 

 sion at Columbia University practically com- 

 plete, there are 5,625 students ; the largest num- 

 ber, by more than a thousand. It is the thir- 

 teenth year of the session, and with the excep- 

 tion of the years 1903-06, when the number 

 remained at about 1,000, the increase in num- 

 bers has been by larger percentages each year. 

 Last year the attendance was 4,530; the year 

 before, 3,602 ; and 2,9Y3 in 1911, while that of 

 the first year, 1902, was 643. 



The trustees of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania have voted to admit women to the school 

 of medicine of the university, beginning in the 

 fall of 1914. 



Dr. Habold Pender, professor of electrical 

 engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology, and director of the research division 

 of the department of electrical engineering, 

 will become professor in charge of the depart- 

 ment of electrical engineering at the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania next fall. 



Dr. Walter Eat Bloor, of the medical 

 school of Washington University, St. Louis, 

 has been appointed assistant professor of 

 biological chemistry in the Harvard Medical 

 School. 



In the medical school of the University of 

 Alabama Dr. William H. Clarke has been ap- 

 pointed professor of anatomy and Dr. J. 

 Howard Agnew, formerly first assistant in the 



department of medicine of the University of 

 Michigan, to a full-time professorship. 



In the medical department of the University 

 of Louisville the following appointments are 

 announced : Dr. Leon L. Solomon, professor of 

 medicine and clinical medicine; Dr. David C. 

 Morton, professor of clinical medicine; Dr. 

 Sidney J. Meyers, professor of medicine and 

 medical economics; Dr. Frank W. Pleisch- 

 haker, professor of physical diagnosis, and Dr. 

 F. Stuart Graves, Boston, professor of pathol- 

 ogy and bacteriology, vice Dr. Leon K. 

 Baldauf, resigned. 



The following changes and promotions in 

 the faculty of the Maryland Agricultural Col- 

 lege and Experimental Station are announced: 

 The organization of the extension and demon- 

 stration service, of which Professor T. B. 

 Symons, of the School of Horticulture is ap- 

 pointed director. To this service the follow- 

 ing transfers from the college and experi- 

 ment station staff are made : Nickolas Schmitz, 

 agronomist; W. T. L. Taliaferro, in charge of 

 farm surveys and management ; G. E. Wolcott, 

 in charge of dairy extension; C. L. Opperman, 

 poultryman, and Eeuben Brigham. The Agri- 

 cultural College is reorganized into divisions 

 as follows: Division of agronomy and animal 

 husbandry, W. T. L. Taliaferro, acting dean; 

 division of applied science, H. B. McDonnell, 

 dean; division of horticulture, T. B. Symons, 

 dean; division of rural economics and sociol- 

 ogy, F. B. Bomberger, dean, and division of 

 engineering, T. H. Taliaferro, dean. Promo- 

 tions in the faculty: E. N. Cory, associate 

 professor of entomology to be professor of 

 zoology; L. B. Broughton, associate professor 

 in chemistry to be professor of analytical 

 chemistry; Grover Kinzy, assistant professor 

 of agronomy, to be associate professor of agron- 

 omy and fana machinery. 



At the University of Birmingham, accord- 

 ing to Nature, Dr. J. S. Anderson has been 

 appointed assistant lecturer and demonstrator 

 in physics for one year in succession to Dr. 

 Fournier d'Albe. Mr. W. Hulse has been ap- 

 pointed demonstrator in mining in succession 

 to Mr. Clubb. Mr. Gilbert Johnson has re- 

 ceived a research position in the zoological 

 department. 



