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UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEW8. 



At the recent meeting of the trustees of 

 Cornell University President Schurman an- 

 nounced an anonymous gift of $150,000 for the 

 establishment of a pension fund. 



Mr. James B. Colgate, of New York, has 

 given $100,000 to Colgate University, Hamil- 

 ton, N. Y., to which he had already given 

 over $1,000,000. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given $100,000 

 to Western Eeserve University for the estab- 

 lishment of a school for the training of 

 librarians. 



A- GIFT of $250,000 was made last spring to 

 Teachers College, Columbia University, for 

 the construction of a building for physical 

 education and school hygiene. It is now an- 

 nounced that the donor is Mrs. Frederick F. 

 Thompson, one of the trustees of the college. 



Last week we announced that Professor 

 Sylvester Waterhouse, at the time of his 

 death emeritus professor of Greek at Wash- 

 ington University, had bequeathed $25,000 to 

 the university, the interest to accumulate 

 until the year 2000, and had made other be- 

 quests. We are informed that this is not 

 quite correct. Professor Waterhouse having 

 given $25,000 to Washington University in 

 1895 on condition that he should be paid five 

 per cent, interest during his life and that the 

 gift should be kept secret until at least one 

 year after his death. The money is to accumu- 

 late until the year 2000 or until the fund 

 amounts to $1,000,000. Under somewhat sim- 

 ilar conditions Mr. Waterhouse had given 

 $5,000 to Harvard University, to Dartmouth 

 College, to Phillips-Exeter Academy and to 

 the Missouri Historical Society. 



Mr. E. B. Keyser, president of the board 

 of trustees of the Johns Hopkins University, 

 has given $5,000 to make plans for improving 

 the new site of the university. 



Columbia University receives $10,000 for 

 the establishment of a scholarship by the will 

 of Mrs. Ellen Josephine Banker. 



At Cornell University Professor L. H. 

 Bailey has been appointed director of the 

 college of agriculture and dean of faculty of 



agriculture, to succeed Professor I. P. Eob- 

 erts, retired; Professor L. M. Dennis, head 

 of the department of chemistry, to succeed 

 Professor Caldwell, retired; Assistant Pro- 

 fessors W. E. Orndorff, W. D. Bancroft and 

 E. Merritt have been promoted to professor- 

 ships of organic and physiological chemistry, 

 physical chemistry and physics, respectively. 



At the University of -Nebraska, Dr. Eay- 

 mond G. Clap has been appointed professor 

 of physical education, and Dr. Ealph S. Lillie 

 instructor in physiology; Dr. Edgar L. Hin- 

 man has been promoted to a full professorship 

 and Dr. Thadeus L. Bolton to an adjunct 

 professorship in philosophy; Eobert E. Moritz 

 has been promoted to an assistant professor- 

 ship in mathematics, and Burton E. Moore 

 to a full professorship of physics. 



Dr. D. J. Cunningham, F.E.S., professor 

 of anatomy in the University of Dublin, has 

 been elected to the chair of anatomy in the 

 University of Edinburgh, vacant by the pro- 

 motion of Sir William Turner to the prin- 

 cipalship. Dr. Cunningham is a graduate of 

 the University of Edinburgh and was for some 

 years demonstrator in anatomy under Sir 

 William Turner. 



At Cambridge University Mr; T. Manners- 

 Smith, Downing, and Dr. H. W. Marett Tims, 

 King's, have been appointed demonstrators of 

 anatomy. Mr. W. A. Cunnington, Christ's, 

 has been appointed to the university table in 

 the Naples Zoological Station. Dr. D. MacAl- 

 ister. Professor Woodhead and Dr. Nuttall 

 have been appointed representatives of the 

 university at the International Congress of 

 Hygiene and Demography to be held at Brus- 

 sels in September. The following have been 

 appointed electors to the respective chairs 

 specified: chemistry. Dr. T. E. Thorpe; anat- 

 omy. Dr. Allbutt; botany, Mr. A. Sedgwick; 

 Downing (medicine). Dr. A. Macalister; zo- 

 ology. Dr. D. MacAlister; physics. Lord Eay- 

 leigh; physiology. Professor G. S. Woodhead; 

 surgery, Dr. A. Macalister; pathology. Dr. 

 W. H. Gaskell. 



Professoe Loewinson-Lessing, of Dorpat, 

 has been elected professor of geology in the 

 Polytechnic Institute at St. Petersburg. 



