Makch 19, 1897.] 



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Dr. Bertraud, are likewise included in the 

 legacy. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Mrs. E. a. Stevens, widow of the founder 

 of the Stevens Institute of Technology, has 

 given the Institute land adjacent to it valued 

 at $30,000. 



The Trustees of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania have petitioned the Legislature for an 

 appropriation of $1,000,000 in aid of the Uni- 

 versity, conditional upon the raising of an equal 

 amount by the friends of the institution. 



EuEEKA College, in Illinois, is said to have 

 received in subscriptions $150,000, of which 

 some $20,000 was given by Mr. T. E. Bon- 

 durant, of Deland, 111. 



The annual catalogue of Princeton Univer- 

 sity shows that the number of students is 1,045, 

 as compared with 1,088 last year. There are 

 548 students in the academic department, 374 

 in the school of science, 115 graduate students 

 and eight fellows. 



The following promotions have been made at 

 Cornell University : Louis M. Dennis has been 

 appointed professor of analytical chemistry ; 

 Walter F. Willcox, professor of sociology ; 

 Henry S. Jacoby, professor of civil engineer- 

 ing ; John Henry Barr, professor of machine 

 design, and Joseph E. Trevor, professor of 

 physical chemistry. 



Cheistopheb W. Hall, professor of geology 

 and mineralogy and Dean of the College of 

 Engineering, Metallurgy and the Mechanic Arts 

 in the University of Minnesota, has been granted 

 a leave of absence for the year beginning next 

 September. Professor Hall has resigned the 

 oflace of Dean, which will be abolished. A re- 

 organization of the College has been voted ; the 

 departments of civil, mechanical and electrical 

 engineering will constitute the College of En- 

 gineering and Mechanic Arts ; the departments 

 of mining and metallurgy will constitute the 

 Minnesota School of Mines, and the course in 

 chemical engineering will become a course in 

 pure and applied chemistry in the College of 

 Science, Literature and the Arts, for which the 

 degree of B. S. will be given. 



A MEETING of the delegates from the insti- 

 tutions named in the report of the Cowper 

 Commission was held on March 25th. Lord 

 Lister, the President of the Koyal Society, 

 moved the following resolution: "That this 

 meeting of delegates represents to her majesty's 

 government the great injury caused to the edu- 

 cational interests of the metropolis by the delay 

 in establishing a teaching vmiversity for Lon- 

 don, and urges upon them the necessity of tak- 

 ing immediate steps for the constitution of a 

 statutory commission for the reconstruction of 

 the University of London on the lines of the 

 recommendations of the Cowper Commission." 

 The motion was seconded by Professor Riicker 

 and carried unanimously. Remarks in sup- 

 port of the resolution were made by Lord 

 Lister, Sir George Young, Sir Henry Eos- 

 coe, Rev. Dr. Wace and Lord Reay. The 

 latter said, according to the report in the 

 London Times, that it was most disheartening 

 that the delegates should have to meet again. 

 In no other country in Europe would such a 

 company of distinguished men of science and of 

 learning have urged on its government the 

 necessity of founding a teaching university with- 

 out its at once acceding to their wishes. We 

 in England were being watched from abroad. 

 Foreign nations formed their opinion regarding 

 our advance in civilization by the action of Par- 

 liament in reference to the reconstruction of 

 the University of London. The House of 

 Lords had done its duty ; last year the bill was 

 passed unanimously. The mischief was done 

 in the other House. The government had ap- 

 pointed a chairman to the proposed commis- 

 sion ; its honor and that of the country was en- 

 gaged in bringing the matter to a successful 

 issue. It was a court of arbitration that was 

 required, a court which would tend as much to- 

 wards the progress and honor of the country as 

 the recently formed court of arbitration with 

 the United States. 



Dr. Karl Kaiser has been promoted to an 

 associate professorship of physiology in the Uni- 

 versity of Heidelberg, and Dr. Karl Fiitterer to 

 an associate professorship of mineralogy and 

 geology in the Polytechnic Institute at Karls- 

 ruhe. 



