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promised in case the state-supported institu- 

 tions were admitted to the benefits of the 

 foundation. The endowment is $12,126,000, 

 yielding an annual income of $590,000. Last 

 year, it is said, the sum of $526,000 was paid 

 for pensions to 370 professors and widows of 

 professors. Forty-eight were added to the list 

 for the year and fifteen died. The University 

 of Virginia was added to the list of accepted 

 institutions. 



Tale University has made important 

 changes in the entrance examinations of the 

 Sheffield Scientific School. The system is to 

 be modified in the interests of elasticity, al- 

 lowing many entrance options in studies, 

 including substitutes for Latin. The plan is 

 to make the esamination scheme conform to 

 the work of the preparatory schools, especially 

 the high schools of the west. There is, how- 

 ever, no change in the direction of allowing 

 entrance wholly or in part by school certificate. 



Dr. George Harris has presented to the 

 trustees of Amherst College his resignation 

 from the presidency to take effect not later 

 than next commencement, when he will have 

 reached the age of sixty-eight years. 



The following non-resident lecturers in 

 highway engineering for 1911-12 have been 

 appointed at Columbia University: John A. 

 Bensel, M. Am. Soc. C. E., New York state 

 engineer, Albany, N". Y. ; Walter W. Crosby, 

 M. Am. Soc. C. E., chief engineer, Maryland 

 State Roads Commission, Baltimore, Md. ; 

 A. W. Dow, chemical and consulting paving 

 engineer, New York City; Walter H. Eul- 

 weiler, Assoc. M. Am. Soc. C. E.. chief chem- 

 ist. United Gas Lnprovement Company, Phila- 

 delphia, Pa.; John M. Goodell, Assoc. Am. 

 Soc. C. E., editor-in-chief, Engineering Rec- 

 ord, New York City ; Nelson P. Lewis, M. Am . 

 Soc. C. E., chief engineer. Board of Estimate 

 and Apportionment, New York City; Logan 

 W. Page, M. Am. Soc. C. E., director. United 

 States Office of Public Eoads, Washington, 

 D. C; Harold Parker, M. Am. Soc. C. E., 

 chairman, Massachusetts Highway Commis- 

 sion, Boston, Mass. ; Charles P. Price, Assoc. 

 Am. Soc. C. E., manager, American Tar Com- 

 pany, Maiden, Mass.; H. B. PuUar, chief 



chemist, American Asphaltum and Rubber 

 Company, Chicago, 111.; John R. Rablin, M. 

 Am. Soc. C. E., chief engineer, Massachusetts 

 Metropolitan Park Commission, Boston, 

 Mass.; Cliiiord Richardson, M. Am. Soc. C. 

 E., consulting engineer. New York City; 

 Philip P. Sharpies, chief chemist, Barrett 

 Manufacturing Company, Boston, Mass.; 

 Francis P. Smith, M. Am. Soc. C. E., chemical 

 and consulting paving engineer. New York 

 City; Albert Sommer, Assoc. Am . Soc. C. E., 

 consulting chemist. New York City; George 

 W. Tillson, M. Am. Soc. C. E., consulting 

 engineer. Borough of Brooklyn, New York. 

 At Case School of Applied Science the new 

 appointments are: Charles Fulton (Columbia 

 School of Mines), recently president of South 

 Dakota School of Mines, as head of the de- 

 partment of mining engineering; J. Burns 

 Read (South Dakota School of Mines), re- 

 cently mining engineer at Salmon, Idaho, 

 as assistant professor of mining engineer- 

 ing; A. M. Holcomb (Worcester), recently 

 instructor at Cornell University, as assistant 

 professor of electrical engineering; Fred L. 

 Bardwell (Massachusetts Institute of Technol- 

 ogy), assistant professor of chemistry at Mass- 

 achusetts Institute of Technology, as assistant 

 professor of general chemistry; C. W. Bed- 

 ford (Michigan), instructor at University of 

 Michigan, as instructor in organic chemistry; 

 C. W. Coppersmith (Case), recently with the 

 Kilby Manufacturing Company, as instructor 

 in steam engineering; Zay Jeffries (South 

 Dakota School of Mines), general manager of 

 the South Dakota Mica Company, as instruc- 

 tor in metallurgy; Sidney J. Lockner (Union), 

 instructor at Lehigh University, as instructor 

 in mathematics, drawing and descriptive 

 geometry; Clyde M. MartsoH (Pennsylvania 

 State College), recently with the American 

 Telephone and Telegraph Company, as in- 

 structor in electrical engineering; W. A. 

 Van Winkle (Michigan), assistant in chemis- 

 try at the University of Michigan, as in- 

 structor in qualitative chemistry; Roy Young 

 (Purdue), recently with the Ideal Electric 

 Company, as instructor in electrical engineer- 

 ing. 



