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the present year for the purpose of taking 

 over Mr. Carnegie's work in connection ■with 

 educational institutions, libraries and hero 

 funds. The incorporators are Andrew Car- 

 negie, Elihu Eoot, William N. Frew, Henry S. 

 Pritchett, Eobert S. Woodward, Charles L. 

 Taylor, James Bertram and Eobert A. 

 Franks. Mr. Eoot is head of the Carnegie 

 Peace Foundation, Mr. Frew is president of 

 the board of trustees of the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion of Pittsburgh. Mr. Pritchett is president 

 of the Carnegie Foundation. Mr. Woodward 

 is president of the Carnegie Institution at 

 Washington. Mr. Taylor is president of the 

 Carnegie Hero Fund. Mr. Franks is president 

 of the Home Trust Company. Mr. Bertram 

 is Mr. Carnegie's secretary. The objects of 

 the corporation are " receiving and main- 

 taining a fund or funds and applying the in- 

 come thereof to promote the advancement and 

 diifusion of knowledge and understanding 

 among the people of the United States, by 

 aiding technical schools, institutions of higher 

 learning, libraries, scientific research, hero 

 funds, useful publications and by such other 

 means as shall from time to time be found 

 appropriate therefor." The incorporators have 

 elected officers as follows : Mr. Carnegie, 

 president; Senator Eoot, vice-president; Mr. 

 Franks, treasurer, and Mr. Bertram, secretary. 



UNIVEESITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 As a result of the action of the Michigan 

 Board of Tax Equalization, it is estimated 

 that the University of Michigan will in the 

 future receive $208,000 more from the state 

 for its maintenance than heretofore. The 

 total valuation of property in the state has 

 been increased by approximately $555,000,000, 

 and the three eighths mill tax will yield an an- 

 nual income for the university of $858,000, 

 instead of $650,000 as formerly. 



Through the death of Joseph Pulitzer the 

 $1,000,000 which he had given Columbia Uni- 

 versity to found a School of Journalism has 

 been automatically released. A meeting of 

 the advisory board named in the agreement 

 between the university and Mr. Pulitzer wiU 

 be called in a few weeks. It is understood 



that if the work of the school during the first 

 three years is regarded as satisfactory by the 

 board, it will receive a further endowment of 

 $1,000,000. 



At the last sessioa of the legislature of the 

 state of Minnesota among other appropria- 

 tions for the university was one which will 

 net $5,000 for each of the two years before 

 the next legislature assembles to be voted ex- 

 clusively to research, not agricultural, since 

 that is cared for otherwise. When the ques- 

 tion of the allotment of this sum was to be 

 met, a research committee drawn from the 

 faculty of the graduate school was consti- 

 tuted for the purpose of passing upon the 

 applications for aid in research and recom- 

 mend to the president and regents what allot- 

 ments they should make from this fund, as 

 well as drawing up regulations under which 

 the expenditures should be made. 



By the will of Miss Phoebe Caroline 

 Swords, of New York City, $41,000 is be- 

 queathed to St. Luke's Hospital and $20,000 to 

 Columbia University, of which $10,000 is for 

 a scholarship at the College of Physicians and 

 Surgeons. 



The plan of a joint committee of trustees 

 and faculty to consider the " larger questions 

 of educational administration " has been 

 adopted by the trustees of Trinity College. 



In an article in the issue of Science for 

 October 27, on " The Number of Students to a 

 Teacher in the State Colleges and Universi- 

 ties," by Professor C. H. Handschin, the fig- 

 ures for the University of Minnesota are given 

 as 26.1. We are requested to state that Min- 

 nesota's enrolment for 1910-11 was 6,037, 

 which includes 72 correspondence students. 

 Omitting these, the total is 5,955 students. 

 The total number in the faculty is 455. This 

 includes 65 who rank as assistants, 34 of this 

 number being clinical assistants in the de- 

 partment of medicine who receive no pay. In 

 the 455, who are included in the staff of in- 

 struction, are 89 who do not receive any com- 

 pensation. These are mainly in the college of 

 medicine and surgery. Omitting these 89, the 

 faculty numbers 366. 5,955 divided by 366 is 



