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consin, whicli are, however, excluded from the 

 above figures for iron ore. The rank of the five 

 states producing the largest quantity of iron 

 ore — Minnesota, Michigan, Alabama, ISTew 

 York and Wisconsin — remained unchanged in 

 1913, but there were a few changes in the rela- 

 tive rank of certain of the smaller producers. 

 The Minnesota iron ranges are yielding at 

 present considerably more iron ore than is pro- 

 duced in all the rest of the states together, 

 having furnished 62.37 per cent, of the total 

 for the United States in 1913. The Lake Su- 

 perior district, comprising all the mines in 

 Minnesota and Michigan and those in northern 

 Wisconsin, mined 52,377,362 tons in 1913, or 

 84.51 per cent, of the total. 



VNIVEMSII7 AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., receives 

 a bequest of about $462,000 under the will of 

 Melville C. Day, of New York, who died in 

 Florence, Italy. This amount is the residue 

 of the estate. At the termination of a life 

 estate created for the benefit of a friend, 

 Phillips Andover will receive a further sum of 

 about $45,000. 



Frederick William Dohrmann, for a num- 

 ber of years a regent of the University of 

 California, has bequeathed $5,000 as a loan 

 fund, for loans to members of the faculty to 

 tide them over hard places in times of illness 

 or other emergency. 



Brown University celebrated last week the 

 one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its 

 foundation. Among the events were historical 

 addresses by Dr. W. W. Keen, of Philadelphia, 

 and the Hon. Charles E. Hughes, of the Su- 

 preme Court. Dr. William Peterson, principal 

 of McGill University, gave the university ad- 

 dress. Thirty-seven honorary degrees were 

 conferred, the recipients including the presi- 

 dents of the seven universities established be- 

 fore Brown. There were many academic exer- 

 cises and entertainments. 



The University of Louvain has accepted the 

 offer of the Cambridge University to give the 



use of its libraries, laboratories and lecture 

 rooms during the present crisis, without the 

 payment of the usual fees, in order that the 

 work of the Belgian University as a corporate 

 body may be carried on without breach of con- 

 tinuity. Cambridge University has only 1,500 

 students, as against 3,500 last year, and other 

 institutions have lost students in about the 

 same proportion. The German universities 

 expect about one third the usual attendance. 



The last year of the post-graduate course 

 of the Naval Academy at Annapolis is now 

 taken at the school of engineering at Colum- 

 bia University and seventeen lieutenants and 

 one ensign, in active service in the U. S. 

 Navy, are in attendance. Under the naval 

 regulations the course is of two years, and both 

 were taken at Annapolis until last year. It 

 was decided, however, that, while the instruc- 

 tion at the academy was feasible as far as the 

 first year was concerned, the equipment then 

 was not sufficient for the second year, so 

 Columbia was chosen for the more advanced 

 work. 



The attendance at the University of Chicago 

 for the summer quarter has been announced, 

 and shows an advance over the registration for 

 the corresponding quarter a year ago. The 

 total number of men registered in the gradu- 

 ate schools of arts, literature and science was 

 860 and of women, 528, a total of 1,388; in 

 the senior and junior colleges 572 men and 

 605 women, a total of 1,177 ; in the professional 

 schools, divinity 282, medicine 135, law 163, 

 education 991, making a total of 1,571; and 

 excluding duplications, the registration for the 

 entire university was 3,974, the largest sum- 

 mer registration in the history of the institu- 

 tion. 



Cornell University Medical College opened 

 with an enrollment as follows : For the degree 

 of M.D., first year, 55; second year, 28; third 

 year, 32 ; fourth year, 20 : special students 

 (work not leading to the degree of M.D.), 12: 

 for the degree Ph.D., 5, making a total of 152. 

 All students now registered, with the exception 

 of those pursuing the combined seven years' 

 course leading to the degrees of A.B. and M.D., 

 are graduates of arts and sciences, or doctors 



