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two or more schools and experimental farms in 

 the Province of Quebec, one to be located in 

 the district of Montreal and one in the dis- 

 trict of Quebec. Each of the two schools is 

 to contain accommodations for at least 50 

 pupils, who will be given a full course of 

 three years' tuition, together with board, free 

 of charge. 



The Council for the Extension of Higher 

 Education in North Staffordshire has approved 

 plans for the proposed new college, including 

 departments of instruction in mining and 

 metallurgy, pottery, chemistry, and physics, 

 and for administrative buildings, at an esti- 

 mated cost of about $100,000. 



Announcement is made that the first twelve 

 students under the Ehodes scholarship will 

 enter Oxford in October. Seven of the twelve 

 will be from South Africa and five from Ger- 

 many. They will be distributed in various 

 colleges. It is stated that the conditions made 

 by Mr. Ehodes in his will have been satisfac- 

 torily carried out and the men have been 

 chosen, not only for their intellectual attain- 

 ments, but for the qualities of character which 

 Mr. Ehodes regarded as typical of the best 

 manhood. The Americans and the remainder 

 of the colonial scholars will not arrive at Ox- 

 ford until 1904. 



As we have already noted Dr. John H. Fin- 

 ley will be installed as president of the Col- 

 lege of the City of New York on the morning 

 of September 29, and the corner stone of the 

 new building will be laid in the afternoon of 

 the same day. The president will make an 

 inaugural address, among others there will be 

 addresses by Governor Odell, Mayor Low, Ex- 

 president Cleveland and Presidents Butler of 

 Columbia, Schurman of Cornell, Hadley of 

 Yale and Eemsen of Johns Hopkins. 



Dr. N. M. Harris, of the Johns Hopkins 

 Medical School, has accepted a position in 

 the Bacteriological Laboratory of the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago. 



Cornell University Medical College has 

 provided for a chair of experimental pathol- 

 ogy and bacteriology to carry on research 



work, at the Loomis Laboratory. Dr. Bert- 

 ram H. Buxton is to be in charge, and will 

 be assisted by Dr. "V^ictor C. Vaughan, Jr. 



Dr. Peter Potter, acting head of the de- 

 partment of anatomy in the University of 

 Missouri, has accepted an associate professor- 

 ship of anatomy in the Medical Department 

 of St. Louis University. 



The position in the Horticultural Depart- 

 ment of Amherst Agricultural College, vacant 

 by the resignation of Dr. G. A. Drew, has 

 been filled by the appointment of Professor 

 George O. Green of the Kansas Agricultural 

 College. 



At Williams College, Mr. Elmer I. Shep- 

 ard, A.B. (Williams, 1900), has been ap- 

 pointed instructor of mathematics, and Mr. 

 Brainerd Mears, A.B. (Williams, 1903), as- 

 sistant in chemistry. 



Appointments in the Chemical Department 

 of the North Carolina College of Agriculture 

 and Mechanic Arts, for the year 1903-4 have 

 been made as follows : Wm. G. Morrison, M.A. 

 (Virginia), instructor in chemistry; Eobt. W. 

 Page, B.S. (Columbia), instructor of analytic 

 chemistry and metallurgy; Albert A. Haskell, 

 B.S. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), 

 instructor in dyeing; O. M. Gardner, B.S. 

 (North Carolina College of Agricultural and 

 Mechanic Arts), instructor in chemistry. 



The chair of physics and electrical engi- 

 neering, at the Thomas S. Clarkson Memorial 

 School of Technology, Potsdam, N. Y., has 

 been filled by the appointment of Byron 

 Briggs Brackett, A.B., A.M. (Syracuse), 

 Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins). 



Mr. John McFarlane, M.A. (Edinburgh 

 and Cambridge), has been appointed lecturer 

 in political and commercial geography in the 

 Owens College, Manchester. 



Dr. J. Tafel has been promoted to the 

 professorship of chemistry and directorship 

 of the laboratory at Wiirzburg, and Dr. W. 

 Manchot, now decent at Gottingen, has been 

 called to the associate professorship at Wiirz- 

 burg. 



