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at least one session in the preparatory group 

 of evening- classes at the technical school. 

 The number of students must be limited to 

 thirty at any one time. For each year's 

 coiu'se there will be a competitive examina- 

 tion, successful students passing on from one 

 year's course to the next. The course of 

 study for each year will consist of practical 

 mathematics, practical mechanics, geometrical 

 and machine drawing, heat, electricity and 

 chemistry. Those attending the classes will 

 have their wages paid as if at work in the 

 factory, and the Great Western Eailway Com- 

 pany will pay their school fees. The students 

 attending the day classes will be expected to 

 give some time each evening to private study. 

 Students who distinguish themselves will be 

 allowed to spend part of their last year in 

 the drawing office and chemical laboratory. 

 The whole of the arrangements will at all 

 times be under the direction of the chief 

 mechanical engineer. 



Dr. Henry M. Leipziger, supervisor of free 

 lectures of the New York City Board of Edu- 

 cation, says in his annual report : " The at- 

 tendance at the scientific lectures is such as 

 to show that the purpose of the lecture course 

 should be to lay especial stress on populariza- 

 tion of science. The great need of our country 

 is an increase in popular technical instruction, 

 and the demand in our land for thoroughly 

 trained workmen is always great. The intelli- 

 gent workman should be thoroughly equipped 

 in scientific principles, and the lecture course 

 is one medium for giving that general informa- 

 tion in scientific subjects which many mechan- 

 ics lack. For this reason it is hoped that at 

 no distant day two or three well-equipped 

 science halls, where experiments can well be 

 made, will form a feature of the educational 

 plant of the city, and to these halls shall come 

 the very ablest scientists to expound to the 

 thinking people of our city the great prin- 

 ciples of science, and elaborate on the great 

 discoveries that are constantly being made. 

 Such lectures will be of inestimable value in 

 improving the intellectual condition of the 

 workingman." 



uxiVEiiSirr and educational news. 



Ground will be broken shortly at Lelan»l 

 Stanford Junior University for a new library 

 building to be erected at a cost of over $500,- 

 000. The building will be given to the uni- 

 versity by Mrs. Stanford. It is said that she or 

 Mr. Thomas Welton Stanford may also endow 

 the library without drawing on the permanent 

 funds of the university. 



By the will of the late Frederick W. Guiteau, 

 Cornell University receives $100,000 and the 

 residue of the estate, which it is said may 

 amount to a considerable sum. 



Mr. J. Ogden Armour, of Chicago, has en- 

 dowed with $100,000 a ,chair of orthopedic 

 surgery in St. Joseph's Hospital, Omaha, 

 Nebraska. 



An appointment as assistant demonstrator 

 of physiology in the Medical Department of 

 the University of Pennsylvania is open for 

 applications. The appointee will devote his 

 mornings to laboratory teaching, his after- 

 noons to research, and will receive a salary of 

 $500. 



Dr. E. E. Hedrick, instructor in mathe- 

 matics in the Sheffield Scientific School of 

 Yale University, has been called to a chair 

 in the University of Missouri. 



Dr. Kenneth L. Mark, son of Professor E. 

 L. Mark of Harvard University, has been ap- 

 pointed instructor in chemistry in Simmons 

 College, Boston. 



Dr. D. Hepburn, of the University of Edin- 

 burgh, has been appointed to the chair of 

 anatomy in University College, Cardiff, vacant 

 by the removal of Professor A. F. Dixon to 

 Trinity College, Dublin. 



At the Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh, 

 Mr. Eoderick M. Shearer, M.A., B.Sc. (Edin- 

 burgh), has been appointed chief lecturer in 

 mathematics ; Mr. William C. Houston, B.Sc. 

 (Glasgow), to be assistant professor of me- 

 chanical engineering; Mr. W. Mansergh Var- 

 ley, B.A. (Cantab.), Ph.D. (Strasburg), to be 

 assistant professor of physics and electrical 

 engineering; and Dr. Bertram D. Steele, D.Sc. 

 (London), McGill University, to be assistant 

 professor of chemistry. 



