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large ineclianical installations in operation 

 there. The Bureau of Mines, it wiU be re- 

 membered, has already done a large amount o£ 

 work in the problem of mine caves. Director 

 Holmes and several mining engineers served 

 in an advisory capacity on the board of the 

 Scranton Mine-Cave Commission. Mining 

 engineers of the bureau gave the subject spe- 

 cial attention in their studies of European 

 mining methods and conditions. A mining 

 engineer of the bureau served as a member 

 and represented the cooperation of the bureau 

 on the Pennsylvania State Anthracite Mine- 

 Cave Commission, and in the investigations 

 conducted in connection therewith extensive 

 tests of mine-roof supporting materials were 

 made at the Pittsburgh Experimental Station. 

 The mining engineers and geologists of the 

 bureau cooperated with the Scranton City 

 Council, the Bureau of Mine Inspection and 

 Surface Support, consulting engineers, and 

 the Surface Protective Association in studies 

 and reports for the development of practicable 

 solutions of the serious mine caves occurring 

 during recent years. Charles Enzian, mining 

 engineer of the anthracite region, under the 

 direction of Chief Mining Engineer George S. 

 Rice, will represent the Bureau of Mines in 

 this cooperative investigation. 



UNIVEBSITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



The new buildings and grounds of Eieh- 

 mond College were occupied at the begin- 

 ning of the academic year. After eighty-two 

 years on the site in the heart of the city of 

 Richmond, the college opens the session of 

 1914^15 in new buildings on a campus of 150 

 acres in the western suburbs of the city. The 

 opening of Westhampton College, the new co- 

 ordinate college for women, occurred on the 

 same day. The new grounds and buildings of 

 Richmond College for men have a valuation of 

 $850,000 and those of Westhampton College 

 for women of $400,000. The buildings are of 

 collegiate Gothic architecture and were de- 

 signed by Messrs. Cram and Ferguson of 

 Boston and New York. 



Captain Thomas J. Smith, of Champaign, 



ni., has given land, valued at more than two 

 hundred thousand dollars, to the University of 

 Illinois, to make possible the erection of a 

 building to house the department of music. 



At the opening of the Boston University 

 School of Medicine, Dean Sutherland an- 

 nounced that a gift of $100,000 had been re- 

 ceived for the establishment of a maternity 

 hospital. 



We learn from the London Times that the 

 Belgian minister in London has received a 

 letter from the council of the senate of the 

 University of Cambridge offering to professors, 

 teachers and students of the University of 

 Louvain such facilities in the way of access 

 to libraries, laboratories and lectures, together 

 with the use of lecture-rooms, as may secure 

 the continuity of the work of that university 

 during the present crisis. While the Univer- 

 sity of Cambridge is not in a position in its 

 corporate capacity to offer direct financial 

 assistance for the support of members of the 

 University of Louvain, efforts are being made 

 in Cambridge to provide such help privately. 

 Mgr. Barnes, Roman Catholic chaplain of the 

 University of Cambridge, has explained 

 that the university had invited the University 

 of Louvain to migrate to Cambridge, and 

 there to continue its own separate studies, 

 granting its own degrees and generally con- 

 tinuing its activities as at its own foundation, 

 Cambridge supplying the facilities necessary 

 for the technical carrying out of the work. 

 Hospitality in the way of living accommoda- 

 tion and so forth would probably be offered by 

 the individual colleges and by private resi- 

 dents. Through the American Legation at 

 The Hague the professors of the University of 

 Oxford have offered a home for the winter to 

 the young children of the professors of the 

 ruined University of Louvain. Dr. van Dyke 

 has sent the message by two messengers over 

 two different routes, hoping that one or the 

 other may carry it through. The academic 

 staff of University of London, University Col- 

 lege, are prepared to offer hospitality to about 

 70 members of French and Belgian univer- 

 sities, whether professors, teachers, or students, 

 men or women, who may find it necessary to 



