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courses. Throughout the university the classes 

 are overflowing class-rooms, lecture-rooms and 

 laboratories and causing much embarrassment 

 in the endeavor to secure accommodation. 

 The total registration for the year will ex- 

 ceed 3,000, and new buildings, enlarged equip- 

 ment and an increased instructing staff are 

 imperatively needed. 



The Daily Palo Alto reports that the num- 

 ber of new students at Stanford University is 

 437. The distribution among the departments 

 this year and last is as follows : 



1902. 1903. 



Greek 8 2 



Latin 23 17 



German 30 25 



Romanic language 17 15 



English 70 90 



Philosophy 7 — 



Psychology 2 I 



Education 8 7 



History 33 31 



Economics 23 21 



Law 57 58 



Drawing 6 8 



Mathematics II. 3 



Physics 2 1 



Chemistry 21 21 



Botany 4 



Physiology 18 16 



Zoology 4 6 



Entomology — 4 



Geology and mining 43 27 



Civil engineering 22 29 



Mechanical engineering 24 12 



Electrical engineering 27 30 



The Iowa State College at Ames has an- 

 nually an excursion day on which the people 

 of the state are invited to visit the college. 

 This day was celebrated on September 25, 

 when over 15,000 people were present. Ad- 

 dresses were made by the president of the 

 college, Dr. A, B. Storms and Governor A. B. 

 Cummins. 



The Institute of Pedagogy, a department of 

 the Catholic University of America, instituted 

 in Washington, D. C, last year, began its 

 second term on October 1, as the Cathedral 

 College, Fifty-first Street and Madison 

 Avenue, under the directorship of Dr. E. A. 

 Pace, professor of philosophy at the university. 



Dr. Moore, of the Paulist Community, who 

 received his doctorate at Washington last 

 June, will conduct the lectures in psychology. 

 Other courses will be given in English, his- 

 tory and the history and principles and 

 methods of education. 



At Harvard University, Dr. Charles Eobert 

 Sanger has been promoted to a professorship 

 of chemistry; Mr. Frederick Law Olmsted to 

 the chair of landscape architecture called the 

 Charles Eliot professorship in honor of Presi- 

 dent Eliot's son, and Dr. E. H. Bradford has 

 been appointed professor of orthopedic surgery 

 in the Medical School. 



Dk. John White, of the University of 

 Nebraska, has been appointed head of the 

 Department of Chemistry at the Rose Poly- 

 technic Institute, succeeding Professor W. A. 

 Noyes, who, as we have already stated, has 

 become head of the Division of Chemistry of 

 the National Bureau of Standards. Dr. Ben- 

 ton Dales, of Cornell University, has been 

 called to the chair at the University of 

 Nebraska. 



Dr. Norman E. Gilbert, A.B. (Wesleyan), 

 Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), of Hobart College, 

 has been appointed assistant professor of phys- 

 ics at Dartmouth College. Mr. A. A. Bacon, 

 A.B. (Dartmouth), has been called to the 

 position at Hobart College. 



Mr. Frank G. Miller, of the University of 

 Iowa, has been appointed to the new professor- 

 ship of forestry in the University of Nebraska. 



Dr. F. J. Pond, for several years a mem- 

 ber of the chemical force of the Pennsyl- 

 vania State College, has accepted the position 

 of assistant professor of engineering chem- 

 istry at Stevens Institute, Hoboken, N. J. 



Mr. Friend E. Clark, Ph.D. (Johns Hop- 

 kins), who filled a vacancy in the Department 

 of Chemistry at the West Virginia University 

 during the past academic year, has accepted 

 a position as instructor in chemistry in the 

 Pennsylvania State College. 



Dr. Thomas Jehu, of St. John's College, 

 Cambridge, has been appointed to a newly 

 established lectureship on geology at the Uni- 

 versity of St. Andrews. 



