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shafts and in indicating the depth below the 

 surface at which the coal will probably be 

 found. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Mr. Frederick W. Vandeeeilt, of New 

 York, has announced his intention of giving 

 to Tale University another dormitory for the 

 SheiEeld Scientific School. Ground has just 

 been broken for the first dormitory, which will 

 be completed in June, 1904, and will contain 

 fifty rooms providing for seventy-five students. 



Wellesley College is to have, through the 

 generosity of Mr. John D. Eockefeller, a new 

 power plant. Apparatus will be installed for 

 heating all the buildings on the college 

 grounds, which extend over several acres, and 

 the grounds wiU be lighted by electricity. 



Mr. Edgar L. Marston, of New York, has 

 founded a new scholarship at Brown Univer- 

 sity, to which he has given $5,000. The in- 

 come is to be available annually for any gradu- 

 ate of the high school in St. Louis who may 

 be recommended by the principal. 



Mr. Frederick Jas. Quick, of Eltham and 

 Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and of the firm of 

 Messrs. Quick, Eeek & Smith, 148 Fenchurch 

 Street, London, E. C, has left his residuary 

 estate to the University of Cambridge in 

 trust, to apply the income in promoting the 

 study of vegetable and animal biology, for 

 which purpose the Unversity will probably 

 eventually receive between £50,000 and £60,- 

 000. 



The corner stone was laid for the new 

 Library Building of the University of Colorado 

 at Boulder on January 17. The central por- 

 tion will be ready for occupancy on July 1, 

 1903. The total cost of the structure will be 

 about $160,000. 



A coNrERENCE in regard to the Rhodes 

 Scholarships of Oxford University, represent- 

 ing the educational interests of Massachusetts, 

 Connecticut and Rhode Island, was held at 

 Harvard University on January 24. Dr. 

 Parkin presented fully the conditions. The 

 chief subject of discussion appears to have 

 been at what stage in education the scholar 

 should proceed to Oxford. Committees were 



appointed in each of the three states to take 

 charge of the subject. 



The college entrance board is preparing its 

 spring announcement, which will show that 

 its work is to be considerably extended this 

 year. Examinations have already been ar- 

 ranged for in eighty-six different centers in 

 this country and Europe. Among other places, 

 examinations will be held in Hawaii, at Ponce 

 and San Juan in Porto Rico, London, Paris, 

 Strassburg and Dresden. The examiners in 

 the sciences are: 



Botany — William P. Ganong, Smith College; 

 Byron D. Halsted, Rutgers College; Edward L. 

 Morris, Central High School, Washington, D. C. 



Physics — Edward L. Nichols, Cornell; W. S. 

 Franklin, Lehigh; Prank Rollins, Morris High 

 School. 



Chemistry — ^Henry P. Talbot, Massachusetts In- 

 stitute of Technology; Leverett Mears, Williams 

 College; Albert C. Hale, Brooklyn. 



Geography — ^Albert P. Brigham, Colgate Uni- 

 versity; William N. Rice, Wesleyan; Frank Car- 

 ney, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Mathematics — Charlotte A. Scott, Bryn Mawr 

 College; William H. Metzler, Syracuse Univer- 

 sity; John S. French, Port Deposit, Ind. 



Eev. Langdon C. Stewardson, professor of 

 philosophy and chaplain of Lehigh University, 

 has been chosen president of Hobart College, 

 Geneva, N. Y. 



Professor G. N. Stewart, M.D., Ph.D., pro- 

 fessor of physiology in Western Reserve Uni- 

 versity Medical School of Cleveland, has been 

 appointed professor and head of the depart- 

 ment of physiology at the University of Chi- 

 cago, to fill the vacancy caused by the removal 

 of Dr. Jacques Loeb to the University of 

 California. 



Dr. Edward C. Franklin, professor of phys- 

 ical chemistry in the University of Kansas, 

 has been elected to the associate professorship 

 of organic chemistry, in Stanford University. 



Dr. Edward P. Buohner, of Clark Univer- 

 sity, Worcester, Mass., formerly professor in 

 the School of Pedagogy of New York Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed to the chair of 

 pedagogy in _ the University of Alabama, 

 vacated by the death of Professor Jacob 

 Forney. 



