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LN. S. Vol. XVII. No. 438. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Me. Henry Denhakt, of Washington, 111., 

 who has in the last five years given $35,000 

 to Carthage College, announces a further gift 

 of $145,000 on certain conditions. He offers 

 $100,000 for the- endowment fund providing 

 that the same amount be raised in the college 

 territory, half of the expense of any new 

 buildings erected up to $20,000, and $25,000 

 cash. 



Plans have been completed for the new 

 engineering building of the University of 

 Pennsylvania, which will be located opposite 

 Dental Hall, and will be completed in Sep- 

 tember, 1904, at a total cost of $500,000. The 

 building is to be 300 feet long and 175 feet 

 deep, with an exterior of dark brick and sand- 

 stone trimmings. 



The chair of electrotechnics at University 

 College, Liverpool, has been endowed with 

 £10,000 by Mr. Jardine. 



University Inn, at State College, Pa., was 

 destroyed by fire on May 9, causing a loss of 

 about $35,000; insurance, $13,000. The inn 

 was occupied by thirty-five students of the 

 State College, and seven professors and their 

 families. 



A MEETING of educators representing prin- 

 cipally the colleges of the middle west met 

 at Chicago on May 8 and 9 to discuss the 

 college and its relation to the professional 

 schools. A national college association was 

 formed which will hold annual conferences. 



The Yale University Corporation at the 

 May meeting approved the recommendations 

 of the academical professors to extend the 

 elective system into the freshman year by 

 allowing each freslnnan to choose five out 

 of eight courses of study and to allow the 

 substitution of advanced work in mathematics 

 or modern languages in place of Greek for 

 admission to college. The new requirements 

 for admission, which will go into effect in 

 1904, leave English, ancient history and Latin 

 unchanged, but will allow Greek to be wholly 

 or in part superseded by an additional amount 

 of mathematics or by a thorough knowledge 

 of either French or German. In the fresh- 

 man year the eight courses open to the class. 



five of which must be elected, are Greek, 

 Latin, French, German, English, mathematics, 

 chemistry and history. It is required that 

 three of the five courses elected must be in 

 continuation of the five studies — Greek, Latin, 

 English, mathematics, or a modern language 

 — already pursued in the preparatory school. 



The Eev. Edwin H. Hughes, of Maiden, 

 Mass., has been elected president of De Pauw 

 University, at Greencastle, Ind. 



Professor William H. Brewer has resigned 

 the professorship of agriculture at Yale Uni- 

 versity and has been appointed professor 

 emeritus. 



Mr. Gifford Pinchot, chief of the Bureau 

 of Forestry, has been elected to a professor- 

 ship in the forest school of Yale University. 

 He will continue his work and his residence 

 in Washington, but by special arrangement 

 will lecture at Yale. Assistant Professor J. 

 W. Tourney has been advanced to a full pro- 

 fessorship in the Forest School. 



At Cornell University Professor T. F. 

 Hunt, dean of the Agricultural College, of 

 the Ohio State University, has been appointed 

 professor of agronomy and Dr. B. F. Kings- 

 bury has been appointed assistant professor 

 of embryology. Dr. Kingsbury was formerly 

 instructor and has spent the last two years 

 in study at Freiburg. 



At Harvard University Messrs. A. F." 

 Blakeslee and J. J. Wolfe have been ap- 

 pointed Austin teaching fellows in botany. 



Philip Bouvier Hawk, M.S., for the past 

 two years assistant in physiological chemistry 

 at Colxmibia University, has resigned his 

 position to accept that of demonstrator of 

 physiological chemistry at the University of 

 Pennsylvania. 



Mr. Howard S. Eeed, assistant in plant 

 physiology in the University of Michigan, has 

 been appointed instructor in botany at the 

 University of Missouri. 



M. Charrin has been apointed to a newly- 

 established chair of general pathology in the 

 College de France; Dr. Fliigge, of Breslau, 

 has been appointed professor of hygiene in 

 the University of Vienna. 



