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per annum, which is the state's annual con- 

 tribution to the funds of the Land Grant 

 College of Minnesota. The land grant itself 

 provides an income of about $95,000 and the 

 income of the university itself is over $125,- 

 000. The state also makes a deficiency ap- 

 propriation of $35,000. Of the total income 

 of something less than a half million dollars, 

 the state provides $184,000. 



A FUND of $10,500 has been subscribed for 

 Harvard University to establish a lectureship 

 in memory of Edwin L. Godkin, Harvard 'Yl, 

 long editor of The Nation and the New York 

 Evening Post, who died in March, 1902. The 

 lectures are to be on ' The Essentials of Free 

 Government and the Duties of Citizens.' 



The exercises connected with the opening 

 of the new building of the Department of 

 American Archeology of Phillips Academy, 

 Andover, Mass., were held on Saturday, March 

 28. The address of the day was given by 

 Frederick Ward Putnam, LL.D., of Harvard 

 University, and about five hundred guests in- 

 terested in the subject and the institution 

 were in attendance. The foundation of a 

 department of archeology in a preparatory 

 school is unusual if not unique, but it is be- 

 lieved by the trustees that the educational 

 value of the courses and the desirability of 

 early training of future workers in the field 

 both warrant the experiment. 



The New Haven correspondent of the New 

 York Evening Post writes: The plan of the 

 academic faculty to exclude Greek, Latin, 

 and mathematics from freshman year as re- 

 quired studies contemplates the increase of 

 the present five required freshman studies to 

 eight, of which five must be chosen. Modern 

 languages are divided into French and Ger- 

 man electives, and chemistry and history are 

 added. It is ascertained that the corporation 

 at its last meeting sent back the plan — after 

 the faculty had adopted it — with a suggestion 

 which, if accepted, would have prescribed seven 

 freshman studies with choice of five. This 

 modified plan would have compelled a choice 

 of Greek, Latin, or mathematics, but the 

 faculty has refused to accept it. At the next 

 meeting of the corporation the matter will be 



voted on, and a number of that body are un- 

 derstood to be opposed to a change which they 

 regard as too radical. Among its opponents 

 are also said to be most of the classical pro- 

 fessors. The new question is also raised, 

 somewhat acutely, of the jurisdiction of 

 faculty or corporation in the case. 



Announcement has been made of a pre- 

 technical course at Eochester University, grad- 

 uates from which will be able to enter the 

 junior year at the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology or the College of Mechanical and 

 Electrical Engineering at Cornell. 



Further steps are being taken toward the 

 establishment of the University of Hamburg. 



There are two vacant biological fellowships 

 in Princeton University to be conferred by 

 appointment on graduates of not more than 

 five years' standing in approved American 

 colleges. Candidates may send application, 

 with evidence of fitness, to the Registrar, 

 Princeton University, Princeton, N. J. 



Dr. Edwin H. Hughes, a Boston clergy- 

 man, has been elected president of De Pauw 

 University. 



The Boston Transcript announces the fol- 

 lowing new appointments at Harvard Uni- 

 versity: As instructors, H. C. Boynton in 

 metallurgy, W. E. McClintock in highway 

 engineering and M. A. Read in physiography. 

 Assistants appointed for the same year are; 

 P. E. Curtis in ore-dressing and assaying; 

 E. C. Wells in physical chemistry, W. B. 

 Updegraph and D. W. Howes in mechanical 

 drawing, W. M. Gregory in paleontology and 

 A. P. Larrabee in zoology. The following 

 are appointed to Austin teaching fellowships: 

 L. J. Cole, zoology; J. M. Fox in mining and 

 metallurgy, and F. W. Russe in organic 

 chemistry. 



Professor R. E. Smith, assistant in botany 

 at the Massachusetts Agricultural College and 

 Experiment Station, has accepted the position 

 of pathologist and assistant professor in bot- 

 any in the University of California. 



Dr. Oscar Emmerling has been promoted 

 to an associate professorship of botany in the 

 University of Berlin. 



