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000. Attached to the offer is a condition 

 that these departments shall be recognized as 

 integral parts of the university. The com- 

 pany has also promised to grant in perpetuity 

 to the university for the maintenance of these 

 departments an annual sum of not less than 

 £4,000. This means a gift to the university of 

 a capitalized sum of upwards of £200,000. 



AocoKDiNG to the HochschulnachricMen the 

 attendance at the universities of the German 

 empire last vcinter was 40,661, of whom 36,652 

 were matriculated. The number of matricu- 

 lated students in the Austrian universities 

 was 16,125. The number of students in the 

 German technical schools was 13,049 and in 

 the Austrian schools 6,451. These figures, 

 however, do not include the attendance at the 

 schools of agriculture, forestry, veterinary 

 surgery, mining and commerce. The num- 

 ber of foreigners in attendance at Vienna was 

 1,386 and at Berlin 1,085. There were last 

 year 1,253 foreigners in attendance at Paris. 



The council of Trinity College, Dublin, has 

 recommended that the senate approve the ad- 

 mission of women to that institution and the 

 abolition of the compulsory study of Greek. 



Joint ceremonies of the inauguration of 

 Dr. John Huston Finley as president of the 

 College of the City of New York and the 

 laying of the cornerstone of the new buildings 

 being erected on the site bounded by One 

 Hundred and Thirty-eighth and One Hundred 

 and Fortieth Streets and St. Nicholas Terrace 

 and Convent and Amsterdam Avenues are 

 being arranged by the board of trustees. The 

 installation ceremonies will take place at 10:30 

 A. M. on October 1. President Roosevelt and 

 ex-President Cleveland will make addresses. 

 The cornerstone of the new buildings will be 

 laid at 3 :30 in the afternoon, and addresses 

 will be made by Mayor Low and others. 



Kev. H. W. McKnight has resigned the 

 presidency of Pennsylvania College, at Get- 

 tysburg. 



Professor William E. Ware, from 1860 to 

 1881 professor of architecture in the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology and since 



then professor at Columbia University, has 

 retired from active service and will become 

 professor emeritus. 



Appointments at Cornell University have 

 been made as follows : J. I. Hutchinson and 

 Virgil Snyder, assistant professors of mathe- 

 matics; J. S. Shearer and Ernest Blaker, as- 

 sistant professors of physics; W. N. Barnard, 

 assistant professor of machine design; 0. S. 

 Hirshfield, instructor in experimental engi- 

 neering ; R. Stevenson and I. Baum, assistants 

 in chemistry; L. O. Veser and R. C. Fenner, 

 assistants in physics. 



Me. J. C. Pearson, A.B. (Bowdoin, 1900), 

 now graduate student at Harvard University, 

 has been appointed instructor in physics and 

 mathematics in Bowdoin College. 



Miss Ida Evans, who was graduated from 

 the Woman's College of Baltimore in 1902, 

 has been appointed instructor in biology in 

 Rockwood College. Miss Bertha May Clark, 

 instructor in physics at the Woman's College, 

 Baltimore, has been awarded the graduated 

 fellowship offered annually to an alumna. 

 Miss Clark will study spectrum analysis and 

 advanced mathematics at the University of 

 Gottingen. 



Among the twenty-two fellowships awarded 

 at the Johns Hopkins University, the follow- 

 ing are in the sciences : Samuel J. Allan, of 

 Montreal, Canada, physics; James Barnes, of 

 Halifax, Nova Scotia, physics; Walter Buck- 

 ingham Carver, of Stewartstown, Pa., mathe- 

 matics; August Ernest Guenther, of San- 

 dusky, O., physiology; Elliot Snell Hall, of 

 Jamestown, N. Y., chemistry; Arthur Isaac 

 Kendall, of Somerville, Mass., pathology; 

 Charles Kephart Swartz, of Baltimore, geol- 

 ogy; David Hilt Tennent, of Janesville, Wis., 

 zoology; Rheinart Parker Cowles, the Adam 

 T. Bruce fellow in biology. 



Nine fellowships have been awarded at 

 Bryn Mawr College, including Carrie Alice 

 Mann, of South Weymouth, Mass., mathe- 

 matics; Lillian Cohen, of Minneapolis, Minn., 

 chemistry; Ellen Terelle, of Minneapolis, 

 Mifin., biology. 



