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self to literary or scientific research. It will be 

 awarded in alternate years in the sciences and 

 humanities and is of the value of £250. 



The family of the late Dr. John Hopkinson, 

 in addition to their gift of £5,000 towards the en- 

 gineering laboratory at Cambridge, have given 

 £1,600 to Owens College, Manchester, where 

 Dr. Hopkinson was a student. The money 

 is to be used for building a dynamo house con- 

 nected with the new physical laboratory. 



The Twelfth Annual Convention of the Asso- 

 ciation of Colleges and Preparatory Schools of 

 the Middle States and Maryland was held on 

 Friday and Saturday at Columbia University, 

 New York. The subjects chosen for discussion 

 were the teaching of history and of civics in 

 the secondary schools and the requirements for 

 admission in engineering colleges. The discus- 

 sion of the last-mentioned topic was opened by 

 Professor R. H. Thurston, of Cornell Univer- 

 sity, who was followed by President T. M. 

 Drown, of Lehigh University, Professor W. H. 

 Spangler, of the University of Pennsylvania, 

 and Professor D. G. Carhart, of the West- 

 ern University of Pennsylvania. The discus- 

 sion of the subject was continued by Secre- 

 tary Dewey, of the Regents' Office ; President 

 Warfleld, of Lafayette College ; Chancellor 

 Holland, of the Western University of Pennsyl- 

 vania ; Chancellor McCracken, of New York 

 University, and President Low, of Columbia 

 University. 



The number of students enrolled in the de- 

 partments of the University of California at 

 Berkeley is 1,565, over 150 more than at the cor- 

 responding time last year. The graduate de- 

 partment has an enrollment of 149 students. 



The number of undergraduate students at 

 Oxford for the present term is 3,412, four more 

 than last year. The number of matriculations 

 was twenty-one greater than last year, but the 

 B. A. was conferred on only 554 students as 

 compared with 580 in 1897. The number of 

 resident members of congregation is 461. 



The number of resident members of Cam- 

 bridge University, both graduates and under- 

 graduates, is this term 3,524, a decrease of 

 twenty-one as compared with last year. The 

 stationary condition of the two great universi- 



ties, when compared with the rapid growth of 

 the American and German universities is doubt- 

 less in a measure due to the establishment of 

 provincial universities, but it may also in part 

 be attributed to the fact that the educational 

 systems of Oxford and Cambridge do not fully 

 meet modern requirements. 



The Journal of Education, London, gives in 

 its last issue some account of the extension of 

 commercial education abroad. For some time 

 already an annual Congress has been held of 

 the directors of commercial schools in the Im- 

 perial Higher Commercial School at Tokio. At 

 that held in May last, representing seventeen 

 cities, the draft of a statute regarding indus- 

 trial, commercial and agricultural education 

 was submitted by the responsible Minister for 

 discussion ; and, in an extraordinary session of 

 the Diet, a bill has this year been passed which 

 allocates 119 million yens (about $60,000,000) 

 to the subsidizing of the intermediate commer- 

 cial schools throughout the Empire. Signor 

 Ferdinando Bocconi has placed at the disposal 

 of the Milan Polytechnic a sum of 400,000 lire 

 ($80,000) for the establishment of an ' Istituto 

 superiore di commercia,' or Commercial Uni- 

 versity, which shall have a local habitation an- 

 nexed to the Polytechnic. Its aim shall be to 

 train traders of the first rank, in view of a 

 diploma granted for knowledge of the economic 

 conditions and languages of the most important 

 countries, of chemistry, commodities, commer- 

 cial geography, commercial, industrial and mar- 

 itime law, customs and railway legislation, 

 banking, insurance and business methods. A 

 project is also in hand for the establishment of 

 a Commercial University at Moscow. It is ex- 

 pected that a Council will be appointed and 

 regulations framed before the end of the pres- 

 ent year. 



Owing to the resignations, during the sum- 

 mer, of Dr. Henry P. Quincy and of Dr. Elisha 

 H. Gregory, Jr., the department of histology 

 and embryology at the Harvard Medical School, 

 under Professor Minot, has been reorganized. 

 Dr. Schaper remains as the demonstrator, and 

 the following corps of assistants have been 

 formed, the names being arranged in the order 

 of seniority. Dr. John L. Ames, Dr. Frederick 



