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amount to about $780,000,000, a sum out of all 

 proportion to the resulting daily increase of 

 water supply. Hence the attempt to increase 

 the water supply by forestation of the Croton 

 catchment area is inexpedient. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 Announcement of a gift of $150,000 from 

 Mr. J. Ogden Armour was made at the con- 

 vocation exercises of the Armour Institute of 

 Technology on June 19. 



The co mm ittee appointed by the Columbia 

 University council to prepare a report on 

 'what celebration, if any, should be held on 

 the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of 

 the foundation of the corporation,' which oc- 

 curs on October 31 next, has made the tenta- 

 tive suggestion that the commemoration last 

 from October 25 to November 1. On October 

 ■ 25, 26, 27, 28, a series of colloquies, confer- 

 ences and lectures is proposed to be delivered 

 by eminent European and American scholars. 

 On October 31 there will be a luncheon and 

 reception in honor of the guests, and an ad- 

 dress, historical in character, by the president 

 of the university. 



Arrangements have been made between the 

 Western Reserve University and the Case 

 School of Applied Science permitting students 

 to complete their academic and engineering 

 courses in five years. 



Colgate University has given up its degree 

 of Ph.B. and will hereafter give the B.A. 

 degree without required Greek. 



Charters have been approved incorporating 

 independent universities at Manchester and 

 Liverpool to be known as the Victoria Uni- 

 versity of Manchester and the University of 

 Liverpool. 



On June 18 the corporation of Brown Uni- 

 versity voted to establish a graduate depart- 

 ment and elected Professor Carl Barus as 

 dean. 



Dr. le Baron Russell Briggs, professor of 

 English and dean of the Faculty of Arts and 

 Sciences at Harvard University, has been 

 elected president of Radcliffe College to fill 





the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mrs. 

 Agassiz. 



Professor M. E. Cooley, of the engineering 

 department of the University of Michigan, has 

 been offered the deanship of the Engineering 

 School of the University of Wisconsin. 



Dr. Frederick E. Bolton, professor of edu- 

 cation "in the University of Iowa, was offered 

 the presidency of a normal school at Manila, 

 Philippine Islands, but has declined the posi- 

 tion. 



The Rev. Dr. Smith, for the past twenty 

 years president of Trinity College, has re- 

 signed. Dr. F. S. Luther, Jr., professor of 

 mathematics and dean of the faculty, is acting 

 president. 



Dr. J. J. R. McLeod, assistant demonstrator 

 of physiology at the London Hospital, has 

 been appointed professor qf physiology at 

 Western Reserve University, occupying the 

 chair made vacant by the removal of Pro- 

 fessor G. N. Stewart to Chicago. 



Professor C. H. Robinson has resigned the 

 chair of physics at Rochester University. 



H. C. Ives, instructor in Worcester Poly- 

 technic Institute, has accepted an assistant 

 professorship of civil engineering in the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania. 



The three scholarships available for mem- 

 bers of the Harvard summer course in geology 

 in the Rocky Mountains open to general ap- 

 plication have been assigTied to Chas. W. 

 Brown, of Rhode Island, graduate of Brown 

 University and instructor; W. S. Tower, of 

 Massachusetts, student in Harvard Univer- 

 sity, and P. H. Cormick, of Texas, student 

 in the University of Tennessee. 



Mr. Alfred Hughes has been appointed 

 professor of education at Birmingham. 



Mr. Carveth Read has been appointed to 

 the Grote professorship of philosophy of mind 

 and logic at University College, London, in 

 succession to Professor James Sully. 



M. Daniel has been elected to a newly-es- 

 tablished chair of agricultural botany at the 

 University of Rennes. 



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