October 20, 1911] 



SCIENCE 



511 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



A FIFTY-ACRE piece of level land recently 

 reclaimed on the Cambridge side of the 

 Charles Eiver basin, between the Harvard and 

 West Boston Bridges, has been selected for the 

 new site of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology. The selection is contingent on 

 favorable action by the city of Cambridge in 

 closing up certain streets. 



President W. H. P. Faunce announces that 

 $400,000 of the endowment fund of $1,000,000 

 which Brown University is endeavoring to 

 secure, has already been subscribed. The 

 general education board has contributed $150,- 

 000 and eight gifts of $25,000, together with 

 smaller amounts aggregating $50,000, have 

 been received. 



Mr. Charles Scribner has given to Prince- 

 ton University a completely equipped printing 

 plant, provided at a cost of $125,000. 



Six new buildings are to be erected at the 

 University of Wisconsin during the present 

 school year. The first of these is a $200,000 

 woman's dormitory, three stories high and of 

 fireproof construction. A feature of this 

 building will be its division into two separate 

 parts, each part to have a separate dining 

 room, parlors, music room, etc., for the women 

 of each section. The second building to be 

 erected is the $115,000 building for the de- 

 partment of home economics and for the ex- 

 tension division. This building will consist 

 of a large central portion with two wings. It 

 will consist of three stories and basement and 

 will be built of pressed brick with stone trim- 

 mings. A new building for the department 

 of agricultural chemistry, to cost approxi- 

 mately $100,000, will be started next month. 

 This building will also be constructed of brick 

 and will follow the general lines of architec- 

 ture of the agricultural engineering building 

 and the agronomy building. The other im- 

 provements to be made this year include an 

 annex to the gymnasium and armory, a west 

 wing to the chemistry building and a west 

 wing to the library. The new agronomy 



building, started last fall, will be ready for 

 occupancy in a few weeks. 



Dr. Arthur S. MacKenzie, who left the 

 chair of physics at Dalhousie University for 

 the same position at Stevens Institute last 

 year, has been appointed president of Dal- 

 housie University. 



Dr. Bradley M. Davis has been appointed 

 assistant professor of botany in the University 

 of Pennsylvania. He will offer work in plant 

 cytology and genetics, and a course on the 

 morphology of the algse and bryophytes alter- 

 nating-yearly with a course on the morphology 

 of the pteridophytes and gymnosperms. 



Mr. Winslow IT. Herschell, technical cor- 

 respondent of the Allis-Chalmers Company in 

 Zurich, has been appointed assistant professor 

 of mechanical engineering in the University 

 of Maine, to succeed Mr. W. M. Curtis, who 

 has resigned to engage in practical work. 



Dr. Eheinart P. Cowles has resigned his 

 position as associate in biology in the Johns 

 Hopkins University to enter on his duties as 

 associate professor of zoology in the Univer- 

 sity of the Philippines. 



The following promotions and appointments 

 have been made in the School of Zoology at 

 the University of Texas : Dr. J. T. Patterson, 

 adjunct professor; Dr. D. B. Casteel, adjunct 

 professor; Dr. A. Richards (Princeton '11), 

 instructor; Mr. W. L. Brown and Miss Charlie 

 Wilson, tutors; Mr. O. R. Lasater, Miss Ethel 

 Taylor and Miss Mary Kirkland, student as- 

 sistants. 



The new appointees in the College of Engi- 

 neering of the University of Illinois and the 

 Engineering Experiment Station includes 

 C. R. Richards, B.M.E. (Purdue '90), M.M.E. 

 (Cornell '95), for nineteen years associated 

 with the engineering work of the University 

 of Nebraska and for several years as professor 

 of mechanical engineering and dean of the 

 College of Engineering, has been appointed 

 professor of mechanical engineering in charge 

 of the department. A. M. Buck, M.E. (Cor- 

 nell '04), for two years assistant professor of 

 electrical engineering at New Hampshire 



