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open to the general medical public as well as 

 to students at the college, are as follows: 

 March 28, Organization, Equipment and 

 Training of Armies, by Lieutenant Colonel 

 WiUiam S. Terriberry, Medical Corps, IT. G. 

 W. Y.; April 4, Organization of the Medical 

 Department, and Its Service in Campaign, by 

 Major Joseph H. Ford, Medical Corps, U. S. 

 A. ; April 11, Wounds in War, their Complica- 

 tions and Treatment, by Major Joseph H. 

 Ford, Medical Corps, TJ. S. A.; April 18, The 

 Personal Hygiene of the Soldier, by Major 

 Sanford H. Wadhams, Medical Corps, U. S. 

 A.; April 25, Camp Sanitation, by Captain 

 Philip W. Huntington, Medical Corps, U. S. 

 A.; May 2, Preventable Diseases in War, by 

 Captain Philip W. Huntington, Medical 

 Corps, F. S. A. 



All medical classes at the university were 

 omitted on Thursday, April 6. The day, which 

 is known as " U. M. A. Day," and which be- 

 longs to the Undergraduate Medical Asso- 

 ciation, was devoted to the presentation of 

 papers and exhibits of original research work 

 by the undergraduates and to addresses by 

 members of the medical profession. " IJ. M. 

 A. Day" was founded in the fall of 1907 by 

 Dr. John G. Clark for the purpose of en- 

 couraging among undergraduates original re- 

 search along scientific lines. 



At a hearing on the Wheeler biU before the 

 ISTew Lork legislature, Dr. Max G. Schlapp 

 stated according to the Journal of the Amer- 

 ican Medical Association, that a donor who did 

 not wish his name divulged had offered $500,- 

 000 toward a psychopathic institution pro- 

 vided the Wheeler bill was passed by the legis- 

 lature. This bill would create a state clearing 

 house for the mentally deficient and would 

 create a commission of seven with an execu- 

 tive manager to supervise the work of examin- 

 ing and diagnosing the cases of the mentally 

 deficient and to investigate the causes of men- 

 tal deficiency, ^o one opposed the bill. 



The Department of Experimental Breeding 

 at the University of Wisconsin has recently 

 occupied its new barn, constructed for the 

 accommodation of the experimental herd, and 

 fitted out with the most modern barn equix>- 



ment. An attempt is being made by means 

 of crossbreeding to obtain data on the inher- 

 itance of dairy and beef characteristics. The 

 herd at present consists of nearly a dozen 

 crossbred cattle of Jersey-Aberdeen Angus 

 parentage, and one calf of the second genera- 

 tion. 



On the petition of Dr. J. Allen McLaughlin, 

 state health commissioner, a bill has been 

 introduced before the Massachusetts General 

 Court which aims to prevent the sale or de- 

 livery of milk in any city or town without a 

 permit from the local board of health after in- 

 spection of the facilities for producing and 

 handling this food. It provides that the per- 

 mit may contain reasonable conditions for 

 the protection of the public health and may be 

 revoked for failure to comply therewith. The 

 bill has been referred by the Senate to the com- 

 mittee on agricidture and public health. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 



Harvard Unr-eesity has received a bequest 

 of $51,500 from the estate of J. Arthur Beebe, 

 and one of $50,000, came from the estate of 

 Mrs. William F. Matchett, the income of both 

 to be used for general purposes. 



Dr. George E. Vincent, president of the 

 University of Minnesota, delivered the Annual 

 Charter Day address in the open-air Greek 

 Theater of the University of California on 

 March 23. That afternoon the cornerstone 

 was laid of the $730,000 white granite class- 

 room building to be known, in honor of Presi- 

 dent Wheeler, as Benjamin Ide Wheeler Hall. 



Mr. F. W. Bradley, of San Francisco, has 

 given $5,000 to the University of California 

 for the purchase of additions to the geological 

 and mining-arts collections of the university. 

 A large number of exhibitors at the Panama- 

 Pacific International Exposition have also 

 contributed to the university's collections in 

 these fields, among these donors being Japan, 

 ISTorway, Sweden, Bolivia, United States Bu- 

 reau of Mines, United States Geological 

 Survey, the Transvaal Chamber of Mines, 



