July 4, 1913] 



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cheapest rate, and is near the average price 

 received in the Iowa-Missouri district, but it 

 falls 54.5 cents below the average price re- 

 ceived on the Pacific coast, where Portland 

 cement brought the highest figure during the 

 year. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The University of Chicago has received 

 $300,000 for a building to be used as a social 

 center and gymnasium for the women of the 

 university. The donor is Mr. La Verne Noyes. 

 The building is to be a memorial to his de- 

 ceased wife and will be known as the Ida 

 Noyes Hall. 



At the recent commencement at Smith Col- 

 lege, it was announced that the trustees had 

 appropriated the sum of $140,000 for the con- 

 struction of a new biological building. 



Dr. E. p. Lyon, professor of physiology and 

 dean of the Medical College of St. Louis Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed dean of the med- 

 ical department of the University of Minne- 

 sota and director of the physiological depart- 

 ment. 



Charles S. Williamson, Jr., associate pro- 

 fessor of chemistry in the Alabama Polytech- 

 nic Institute, has accepted an associate pro- 

 fessorship of industrial and sugar chemistry 

 in Tulane University. 



F. E. Chidester, Ph.D. (Clark), instructor 

 at Rutgers College, has been advanced to the 

 position of assistant professor of biology. 



The department of zoology at Oberlin Col- 

 lege will be enlarged during the coming year 

 by the addition of Professor Charles G. 

 Rogers, formerly of Syracuse University. 



Promotions and new appointments at the 

 Johns Hopkins University include the fol- 

 lowing : In the philosophical faculty : J. Elliott 

 Gilpin, Ph.D., now associate professor, to be 

 collegiate professor of chemistry; Duncan S. 

 Johnson, Ph.D., now professor of botany, to be 

 professor of botany and director of the Botan- 

 ical Laboratory and the Botanical Garden; 

 Burton E. Livingston, Ph.D., now professor of 

 plant physiology, to be professor of plant 



physiology and director of the Laboratory of 

 Plant Physiology; Edward W. Berry, now as- 

 sociate in paleobotany, to be associate professor 

 of paleontology; Joseph T. Singewald, Jr., 

 Ph.D., now Henry E. Johnston scholar, to be 

 associate in economic geology. In the medical 

 faculty: Leonard G. Rowntree, M.D., now as- 

 sociate, to be associate professor of experi- 

 mental therapeutics; Warren H. Lewis, M.D., 

 now associate professor of anatomy, to be pro- 

 fessor of physiological anatomy; E. V. 

 Cowdry, M.D., of the University of Chicago, 

 to be associate in anatomy; Dr. Paul G. 

 Shipley, of Tale University, and Dr. George 

 Corner, to be assistants in anatomy. 



EoLLOwiNG the creation of the new office of 

 chancellor at Leland Stanford Junior Univer- 

 sity to be filled by Dr. David Starr Jordan and 

 the appointment of Dr. J. C. Branner, to the 

 office of president, Dr. John Maxson Stillman, 

 head of the department of chemistry, has been 

 made vice-president. The following promo- 

 tions and appointments in the university fac- 

 ulty have been made : In the sabbatical absence 

 of Professor H. W. Stuart, in philosophy. Pro- 

 fessor Warner Fite, of the University of Indi- 

 ana, has been elected acting professor for the 

 first semester. Assistant Professor George 

 Holland Sabine, in the same department, has 

 been made associate professor. In economics. 

 Instructors Stephen Ivan Miller and Donald 

 Frederick Grass have been made assistant pro- 

 fessors. In graphic art, H. V. Poor has been 

 appointed assistant professor. In mathematics 

 Associate Professor H. F. Blichfeldt has been 

 made professor, and Assistant Professor W. 

 A. Manning, in applied mathematics, has been 

 made associate professor. Instructor L. E. 

 Cutter, in mechanical engineering, has been 

 made assistant professor. In physiology. In- 

 structor F. W. Weymouth has been made as- 

 sistant professor. In medicine. Assistant Pro- 

 fessor Thomas Addis has been made associate 

 professor, and Instructor E. D. Congdon has 

 been made assistant professor. Instructor Leo 

 Eloesser has been made assistant professor of 

 surgery. 



At Birmingham University Professor W. S. 

 Boulton, professor of geology at University 



