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[N. S. Vol. XVII. No 429 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



It is said that the suits over the will of 

 Dr. Thomas W. Evans are now substantially 

 settled, and the city of Philadelphia will re- 

 ceive a sum approximating $4,000,000 for the 

 ' Thomas W. Evans Museum and Institute 

 Society.' This institution is for ' the teach- 

 ing of dentistry and for the display of his 

 royal presents and personal effects.' 



Me. John D. Eockepeller has offered to 

 duplicate money raised by Acadia College, in 

 Wolfville, N. S., up to $100,000 before Janu- 

 ary 1, 1908. 



Mrs. John Markoe, of Philadelphia, has 

 given $5,000 to Harvard University to estab- 

 lish a scholarship in memory of her son James 

 Markoe of the class of '89. 



President Pritchett and other representa- 

 tives of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology appeared before the committee on ways 

 and means of the Massachusetts House of 

 Eepresentatives on March 11, in support of 

 a bill designed to give the corporation of the 

 institute power either to build over the whole 

 or the part of the western two thirds of the 

 block bounded by Boylston, Berkeley, Marl- 

 boro and Clarendon streets, or to sell it. 

 President Pritchett indicated that the insti- 

 tute might be moved to new buildings on land 

 owned by it near Jamaica Pond, Boston. 



The physical laboratory of the University 

 of Michigan will be extended this summer 

 by the addition of a large lecture-room seat- 

 ing 400 and several other rooms for laboratory 

 work. The top floor, which has hitherto been 

 devoted to bacteriology, will be vacated by 

 that department and will be added to the 

 department of physics. 



On Saturday, February 21, the University 

 of Montana dedicated, with appropriate cere- 

 monies, two new buildings, one a gymnasium 

 and the other a woman's hall. The two 

 buildings cost $40,000, but were not completed 

 within the appropriation. An appropriation 

 of $5,000 has been made by the legislature for 

 their completion according to the original 

 plans. 



At Yale University Dr. Andrew D. White 

 has been appointed Dodge lecturer on the 

 responsibilities of citizenship, and Sir Fred- 

 erick Pollock, of London, Storrs lecturer in 

 the Law School. 



Dr. George B. Halsted, late of the Uni- 

 versity of Texas, has been elected to the chai..' 

 of mathematics at St. John's College, An- 

 napolis, Md. 



At Columbia University Albert P. Wills, 

 A.B. (Tufts), Ph.D. (Clark), lately associate 

 in applied mathematics and physics at Bryn 

 Mawr College, has been appointed instructor 

 in mechanics and iflathematical physics; and 

 Bergen Davis, A.M., Tyndall fellow of Co- 

 lumbia University, has been appointed tutor 

 in physics. 



Dr. J. E. Ives, instructor of physics in the 

 University of Cincinnati, will leave his pres- 

 ent position to go with the American de 

 Forest Wireless Telegraph Company of New 

 York City on the first of April next. To be- 

 gin with Dr. Ives will have charge of the 

 experiments with wireless telegraphy on mov- 

 ing trains and afterwards he will take up a 

 series of investigations connected with the 

 development of wireless telegraphy along com- 

 mercial lines. 



Dr. E. B. Brown, professor of Arabic at 

 Cambridge University and fellow of Pem- 

 broke College, has been offered the mastership 

 of the college in succession to the late Sir 

 George Stokes. 



Mr. Joseph Larmor, fellow of St. John's 

 College, Cambridge University, has been 

 elected Lucasian professor of mathematics in 

 succession to the late Sir George Gabriel 

 Stokes. Mr. Larmor is secretary of the Royal 

 Society and is well known for his contribu- 

 tions to mathematics, his most important work 

 being 'Ether and Matter.' The Lucasian 

 professorship was founded in 1663 by Mr. 

 Henry Lucas, who had been M.P. for the 

 University. The first professor was Dr. Isaac 

 Barrow, who resigned in 1669, Isaac Newton 

 being elected to succeed him. 



