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He was for one year with the General Electric 

 Company at Lynn, Mass., eight years at the 

 University of Illinois as instructor and as as- 

 sistant professor of electrical engineering, and 

 he has been for two years assistant professor of 

 electrical engineering at Lehigh University. 



The University of St. Louis, which recently 

 purchased the Marion-Sims-Beaumont Col- 

 lege of Medicine, has appointed Dr. Albert C. 

 Eycleshymer, assistant professor of anatomy 

 in the University of Chicago, as director of 

 its Anatomical Department. 



Benjamin S. M.\rigold, A.B. (Harvard, '76), 

 Ph.D. (1901), instructor in industrial chem- 

 istry at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute 

 for the past three years, has been appointed 

 assistant professor of chemistry in Clark Col- 

 lege. In the same institution Mr. James 

 P. Porter, A.M. (Indiana), for the past two 

 years instructor in Indiana University, has 

 been appointed instructor in psychology. 



Dr. Henry Albert has been elected assist- 

 ant professor of pathology and. bacteriology in 

 the College of Medicine in the University of 

 Iowa. 



Professor Hettner succeeded Professor 

 Kammerer as rector of the Technological 

 Institute at Charlottenburg on June 30. The 

 number of students in the institute last win- 

 ter was 4,460. 



Mr. Alexander Darroch, M.A., has been 

 appointed professor of education in the Uni- 

 versity of Edinburgh, in succession to Pro- 

 fessor S. S. Laurie. 



Mr. John McCrae, Ph.D., senior lecturer 

 in chemistry at the East London Technical 

 College, has been appointed lecturer in chem- 

 istry at Queen Margaret College, Glasgow 

 University. 



Mr. T. Loveday, assistant lecturer in Eng- 

 lish and philosophy at University College, 

 Bangor, has been appointed professor of phi- 

 losophy at University College, Cape Town. 



The London Times states that a number of 

 appointments have been made in the depart- 

 ment of education at Owens College, Man- 

 chester, in addition to that of Mr. J. J. Find- 



lay, Wadham College, Oxford, to the Sarah 

 Fielden chair of education in succession to 

 the late Professor Withers as already an- 

 nounced. A special professorship of the his- 

 tory and administration of education has been 

 established by the council. This chair has 

 been offered to and accepted by Mr. Michael 

 E. Sadler, M.A., formerly a student of Christ 

 Church, Oxford, and late director of special 

 inquiries and reports under the Board of Ed- 

 ucation. Mr. Sadler will reside in Manchester 

 for one term in each academic year, and dur- 

 ing his residence will take an active part in 

 the work of the department. Miss C. I. Dodd, 

 mistress of method, has been appointed an 

 additional lecturer in education. Mr. H. T. 

 Mark, B.A. (London), B.Se. (Victoria), has 

 been appointed lecturer on school hygiene. 

 Miss S. A. Burstall, B.A. (London), Girtou 

 College, Cambridge, headmistress of the Man- 

 chester High School for Girls, and Mr. J. L. 

 Baton, M.A., late fellow of St. John's College, 

 Cambridge, head master of the Manchester 

 Grammar School, have accepted the posts of 

 special lecturers in education, and will give 

 occasional lectures on special subjects. A re- 

 vised prospectus will be issued shortly con- 

 taining a statement of the courses proposed to 

 be offered during next session for students 

 training to be primary or secondary teachers, 

 as well as for acting teachers already engaged 

 in teaching in primary and secondary schools. 

 The following public lectures (free) have al- 

 ready been arranged: Monday, October 12, at 

 8 P.M., inaugTiral lecture by Professor Findlay 

 on ' Training for the Teaching Profession.' 

 A series of four lectures by Professor Sadler 

 — (1) 'The Educational Problem in Eng- 

 land'; (2) 'The Task of the Local Education 

 Authorities ' (Wharburton lecture) ; (3) ' The 

 Universities and National Education ' ; (4) 

 ' The Need for Scientific Investigation in 

 Education.' 



Dr. H. Spencer Harrison has been ap- 

 pointed demonstrator and assistant lecturer 

 in biology at University College, Cardiff. 



Dr. T. Slater Price succeeds Mr. Wood- 

 ward as director of chemical studies at Bir- 

 mingham Municipal Technical School. 



