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16.2 whicii indicates the maximum number of 

 students per instructor. Using the larger 

 number, 456, as the number in the faculty, the 

 number of students to each member is 13. 



At a meeting of the Alumni Association of 

 the University of Texas in June Mr. Will C. 

 Hogg offered to raise between twenty-five and 

 fifty thousand dollars annually for the next 

 five years as a publicity fund. Within the 

 past four months Mr. Hogg has collected a 

 sum aggregating $147,625, which he has put 

 at the disposal of an executive committee con- 

 sisting of President Sidney E. Mezes, E. B. 

 Parker, president of the alumni, and the presi- 

 dent of the board of regents, Clarence Ousley. 

 As has already been stated in Science, the 

 objects of the movement are to stimulate 

 higher education ; to secure the counsel of dis- 

 tinguished educational workers in the United 

 States and Europe; to investigate and advise 

 the people what the scope of higher educational 

 institutions should be, and what methods and 

 means of maintenance should be provided. 



The University of Washington celebrated 

 its fiftieth anniversary last week. On " Uni- 

 versity and State Day " addresses were deliv- 

 ered by Dr. Kendric Charles Babcock, of the 

 office of the United States Commissioner of 

 Education; President Campbell, of the Uni- 

 versity of Oregon; President MacLean, of 

 the University of Idaho, and Governor Hay, 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction Dewey 

 and Judge Chadwick, of the state supreme 

 court. On the following day Chancellor 

 Samuel Avery, of the University of Nebraska, 

 and President James H. Baker, of the Univer- 

 sity of Colorado, delivered the principal ad- 

 dresses. 



Dr. F. L. Stevens, of the North Carolina 

 College of Agriculture, has accepted a position 

 as dean of the College of Agriculture of the 

 University of Porto Rico located at Mayaguez. 

 He will take up his residence and begin the 

 organization of the Agricultural College at 

 that place on January 1, 1912. It is the in- 

 tention to establish in connection with the 

 Agricultural College and under the director- 

 ship of Dr. Stevens, a Tropical Botanical- 

 Zoological Laboratory. 



Dr. William F. E. Phillips, formerly dean 

 of the medical department of George Wash- 

 ington University, has been elected professor 

 of anatomy in the School of Medicine, Uni- 

 versity of Alabama, Mobile, and has moved to 

 that city. 



Mr. John E. Boynton, B.S. (Wisconsin), 

 for several years assistant professor in the 

 University of Iowa, has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of mechanical engineering at Lafayette 

 College. 



Mr. Prevost Hubbard, chief of the Division 

 of Eoads and Pavements of the Institute of 

 Industrial Research, has been appointed lec- 

 turer in engineering chemistry at Columbia 

 University. He will conduct the courses in 

 bituminous materials given in connection with 

 the graduate courses in highway engineering. 



At the West Virginia University appoint- 

 ments have been made as follows : C. E. Jones, 

 professor of engineering, to be dean of the 

 college of engineering; Rollin P. Davis, of the 

 college of civil engineering, Cornell Univer- 

 sity, assistant professor of structural engineer- 

 ing; C. E. Titlow, of the extension department 

 of the Ohio State University, director of agri- 

 cultural extension; J. B. Grumbein has been 

 advanced to assistant professor of mechanical 

 engineering; Robert H. Chandler, of Sommer- 

 ville, Mass., has been appointed as instructor 

 of woodwork and foundry. 



Mr. Bruce W. Benedict, for several years 

 in the motive power department of the Atchi- 

 son, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, has been 

 appointed director of the shop laboratories in 

 the department of mechanical engineering at 

 the University of Illinois. 



Dr. Ralph A. Hamilton has been appointed 

 professor of histology and embryology in the 

 school of medicine of Georgetown University. 



Mr. George Frederick Charles Seaele, 

 M.A., F.E.S., has been elected to a fellowship 

 at Peterhouse, Cambridge. Mr. Searle was 

 formerly a scholar of the college, and has been 

 demonstrator of experimental physics at the 

 Cavendish Laboratory since 1888 and univer- 

 sity lecturer in experimental physics since 

 1900. 



