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During the last two weeks of August some 

 students of the summer session and graduate 

 department of Columbia University made an 

 extended excursion with Professor A. W. 

 Grabau through New York State for the pur- 

 pose of studying the various type sections of 

 the Paleozoic series. The party numbered 

 fourteen in all and included Professor 0. E. 

 Gordon, of Amherst; Dr. Yabe, recently ap- 

 pointed to the professorship of paleontology in 

 the new university at Sendai, Japan, and Dr. 

 Hahn, of Munich. Among the localities vis- 

 ited were Schoharie, Little Falls, Trenton 

 Falls, Holland-Patent, the ravine of Swift 

 Creek near Chadwick, a type section of the 

 Clinton, the typical outcrops of the Oneida 

 conglomerate, the Syracuse region, Tully and 

 vicinity, the Genesee Gorge at Rochester and 

 at Portage, Olean and the Eock City, Eighteen 

 Mile Creek, and the Lake Erie shore, North 

 Buffalo, Niagara, etc. 



UNIVEBSITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The Massachusetts Listitute of Technology 

 has broken ground for the Summer Engineer- 

 ing Camp at Gardner Lake, Me., near East 

 Machias. The wooden permanent buildings 

 will be erected as soon as possible in 

 the spring and the whole camp will be 

 ready for the summer course of the civil 

 engineers early in August. The camp grounds, 

 which have been presented to the institute by 

 an anonymous friend, include more than a 

 square mile of land at Crosby's Point, with 

 outlook on the water on both sides and more 

 than three miles of shore line. Mr. Charles 

 W. Eaton ('84), of Haverhill, gave to the 

 institute $10,000 for the purpose of erecting 

 permanent buildings on this land. 



On October 3 members of the faculty and 

 students at the University of Chicago ob- 

 served the nineteenth anniversary of the open- 

 ing of the institution with commemorative 

 chapel services in Mandel Hall. The services 

 were opened with prayer by Professor C. E. 

 Henderson. President Judson spoke on the 

 work of the university and compared the in- 

 stitution when founded with that of to-day. 



In a comparison of present conditions with 

 those obtaining nineteen years ago, it was 

 recalled that when the doors were opened for 

 instruction on October 1, 1892, the number of 

 students registered was 594, as against 6,466 

 during the year 1910-11. The faculty at the 

 start consisted of 135 men; now it numbers 

 over 400. At its inception, the university owned 

 four city squares of ground, and its total 

 assets in pledges, endowment, buildings and 

 books were $4,341,708. To-day its endowment 

 and property holdings and pledges total $37,- 

 270,792. 



Announcement has been made of the con- 

 solidation of Barnes Medical College, St. 

 Louis, and the St. Louis College of Physicians 

 and Surgeons. It is hoped that the combina- 

 tion may bring the institution up to the 

 standard required by the State Board of 

 Health. 



At Goueher College, Baltimore, Dr. Samuel 

 N. Taylor, formerly professor of engineering 

 at the University of Cincinnati, has been ap- 

 pointed professor of physics, and Dr. William 

 H. Longley, professor of biology. 



Professor H. E. Jordan has been promoted 

 to a professorship of histology and embryology 

 at the University of Virginia. 



J. Chester Bradley, Ph.D. (Cornell '10), 

 has been promoted to be assistant professor of 

 systematic entomology in Cornell University, 

 to succeed Dr. A. D. MacGillivray, Ph.D. 

 (Cornell '04), who has accepted a similar posi- 

 tion in the University of Illinois. 



A. J. GoLDFARB, Ph.D. (Columbia '10), has 

 been made an instructor in natural history at 

 the College of the City of New York. 



Mr. H. a. Wadsworth has been appointed 

 assistant professor in the School of Forestry 

 at the University of Idaho. 



Dr. Dudley B. Eeed, formerly director of 

 physical education at the University of Eoch- 

 ester, has assumed his duties as medical ex- 

 aminer at the University of Chicago, succeed- 

 ing Dr. J. E. Eaycroft, who has gone to 

 Princeton University as head of a new depart- 

 ment of hygiene and physical education. 



