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[N. S. Vol. XVII. No. 435. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The board of regents of tlie University of 

 Wisconsin on April 21 elected Dr. Charles 

 E. Van Hiss, professor of geology, to the 

 presidency of that institution, the term of 

 service to begin with the next academic year, 

 or so soon thereafter as Dr. Van Hise can be 

 freed from existing engagements. 



Dr. John H. Finley, professor of politics 

 at Princeton University, has been elected 

 president of the College of the City of New 

 York. Three professors of the college, Robert 

 A. Doremus, chemistry; Solomon W. Wolf, 

 descriptive drawing, and James W. Mason, 

 mathematics, retired with pensions on reach- 

 ing the age limit. 



The building on the campus of Rutgers 

 College, occupied by the New Jersey State 

 Experiment Station and Agricultural College, 

 was almost completely destroyed by fire on 

 April 23. The loss is estimated at $40,000, 

 which is nearly covered by insurance. Most 

 of the collections were saved, but damage was 

 done to those of the botanical and biological 

 departments. 



PREsroENT D. S. Jordan, of Stanford Uni- 

 versity; President Wheeler, of the University 

 of California, and Dean Norton, of Pomona 

 College, constituting a committee on the 

 award of the Rhodes scholarships from the 

 state of California, have decided that the first 

 scholarship shall be granted to the University 

 of California. The award will be made next 

 winter, and the following year a scholarship 

 will be given a Stanford graduate. 



The University of Chicago has established 

 the degree of Bachelor of Education for two 

 years' professional work in the School of Edu- 

 cation. Students are to be admitted to the 

 school from the junior colleges of the univer- 

 sity and from certain approved high schools. 



The Summer School in Mining of McGill 

 University will be held this year in the iron 

 and copper districts of Michigan. The work 

 of the school will be carried out chiefly in the 

 Marquette range, with Ishpeming as head- 



quarters, and in the district about Houghton. 

 In the latter locality the instruction will be 

 given chiefly in the workings and mills of the 

 Atlantic and Baltic mines. On the way west 

 the party will stop at Sudbury and at Sault 

 Ste. Marie to examine the metallurgical plants 

 at these places. The geological work in con- 

 nection with the school will be done in the 

 Marquette district. The party leaves Mon- 

 treal in a special car on April 27 and will 

 return about the middle of June. The school 

 will be in charge of Dr. J. B. Porter, professor 

 of mining in McGill University, and the in- 

 struction in geological field work will be given 

 by Dr. Prank D. Adams. 



About one hundred cases of typhoid fever 

 have occurred at Palo Alto, largely among 

 the students of Stanford University. The 

 disease is, however, of a mild type, only one 

 death having occurred. It was caused by 

 contaminated milk. 



Dr. L. a. Bauer, as lecturer in terrestrial 

 magnetism, will give his annual course of 

 instruction in magnetic work at the Johns 

 Hopkins University during the week April 

 27 to May 2. 



John L. Sheldon, of the botanical depart- 

 ment of the University of Nebraska, has ac- 

 cepted the position of professor of bacteriol- 

 ogy in the West Virginia University, and 

 bacteriologist to the agricultural station. He 

 will assume his new positioti September 1, 

 and will spend this summer as instructor in 

 botany in the Colorado Springs Summer 

 School. Mr. Sheldon comes up before the 

 faculty of the University of Nebraska in 

 June for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 

 (in botany). 



Mb. Peank L. Hann, who has been assistant 

 in chemistry at Cornell College, Iowa, has 

 been chosen an instructor in the chemical 

 department of Morningside College, at Sioux 

 City. 



Dr. Arnold Emch, heretofore assistant pro- 

 fessor of pure and applied mathematics in the 

 University of Colorado, has been promoted 

 to a full professorship of graphics and mathe- 

 matics. 



