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the action of the allies. Professor Planck 

 himself was one of the signatories. He is 

 now said to admit that the form in which 

 this letter was written led to regrettable 

 misunderstandings of the real sentiments of 

 the signatories. In his opinion, and it is an 

 opinion shared, he says, by his colleagues Har- 

 nack, Nernst, Waldeyer and Wilamowitz- 

 MoUendorff, that letter of appeal was written 

 and signed in the patriotic exuberance of the 

 first weeks of the war. It must not be taken 

 for granted, says Professor Planck, that at 

 the present time anything like a scientific 

 judgment can be formed with regard to the 

 great questions of the historical present. 

 " But what I wish to impress on you," he 

 writes to Dr. Lorentz, " is that notwithstand- 

 ing the awful events around us, I have come to 

 the firm conviction that there are moral and 

 intellectual regions which lie beyond this war 

 of nations, and that honorable cooperation, 

 the cultivation of international values, and 

 personal respect for the citizens of an enemy 

 state are perfectly compatible with glowing 

 love and intense work for one's own country." 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



By the will of Charles W. Harkness, who 

 died on May 1, Yale University will receive 

 $500,000. There are also bequests to the Pres- 

 byterian Hospital of $100,000 for endowment 

 purposes, and $250,000 to be added to the 

 Harkness Pund for scientific and educational 

 work. 



A BEQUEST of $150,000 has been made to the 

 Johns Hopkins University by Miss Jessie 

 Gillender for the purpose of instituting or- 

 ganized research into the problem of epilepsy. 



The Long Island College Hospital, Brook- 

 lyn, announces that after January 1, 1918, the 

 completion of two years of study in a college 

 of liberal arts or science will be required for 

 admission to the four-year medical course 

 leading to the degree of M.D. At present the 

 requirement is one year only of college work. 

 Beginning in the fall of 1916 Columbia Uni- 

 versity, New York, will conduct a pre-medical 



college year at the Long Island College Hos- 

 pital. 



Mr. Arthur du Cros, M.P. for Hastings, 

 has promised a gift of £7,000 to the extension 

 fund of the London School of Medicine for 

 Women, thus completing the £30,000 for which 

 appeal was made. 



Clyde Brooks, A.B., Ph.D., M.D., has re- 

 signed his post at the University of Pittsburgh 

 Medical School and has accepted the position 

 of professor and head of the department of 

 physiolog-y, pharmacology and physiological 

 chemistry in the school of medicine of the 

 University of Ohio, at Columbus, Ohio. This 

 marks the beginning of a plan to be carried 

 out by the newly elected dean, Dr. E. P. Mc- 

 Campbell, in reorganizing and developing the 

 medical school at Columbus. The plan in- 

 cludes the erection of a new university hos- 

 pital and a new medical building on the uni- 

 versity campus. 



At Harvard University the following ap- 

 pointments to the staff of the medical school 

 have been made: Ernest E. Tyzzer, to the 

 George Eabyan professorship of comparative 

 pathology; Charles J. White, to the Edward 

 Wigglesworth professorship of dermatology, 

 and Arthur D. Hill, to a professorship of law. 

 Percy G. Stiles has been promoted to be assist- 

 ant professor of physiology, and Dr. James H. 

 Wright, assistant professor of pathology. 



Among the new appointments at the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago is that of George Van Bies- 

 broeck, adjunct astronomer of the Eoyal Ob- 

 servatory of Belgium, as professor of practical 

 astronomy at Yerkes Observatory. Promo- 

 tions include the following : To a professor- 

 ship: Henry Gordon Gale, of the department 

 of physics. To associate professorships: 

 Harvey Carr, of the department of psychology, 

 and Preston Kyes, of the department of 

 anatomy. To assistant professorships : Joseph 

 W. Hayes, of the department of psychology, 

 and Wellington D. Jones, of the department 

 of geography. 



In the department of zoology of Columbia 

 University, Dr. William K. Gregory, now asso- 

 ciate, has been promoted to be assistant pro- 



