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[N. S. Vol. XX. No. 504. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The New York Evening Post states that a 

 canvassing committee of the alumni of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology has 

 been formed, in connection with a plan to raise 

 an endowment fund. It is said that $1,500,- 

 000 already has been pledged, and that every 

 one of the thirty-seven classes graduated from 

 the institute will be organized to contribute 

 annually a certain fixed sum. The purpose is 

 to make the institute independent financially, 

 and thus check the movement for a union with 

 Harvard. 



The Drapers' Company have discharged the 

 debt of University College, London, to the 

 banl^ers to the amount of £30,000. The treas- 

 urer has received from Messrs. Wernher, Beit 

 and Co. their check for £10,000, promised to 

 promote the incorporation of the college in 

 the university. For the completion of the 

 incorporation scheme, there remains the sum 

 of £18,000 to be raised. 



The Medical Record states that recently 

 several foreign missionary societies in this 

 country and England agreed to establish 

 jointly a school of high rank in China for the 

 instruction of natives in the principles of 

 modern medicine and surgery. In accord- 

 ance with the scheme a medical college is now 

 under construction. The cost is estimated at 

 $50,000. Toward this the Dowager Empress 

 has contributed about $6,000. Subscriptions 

 are now being sought from high Chinese offi- 

 cials, who are expected to follow the example 

 of the Empress. There will be a five-year 

 course, and the school will have authority to 

 confer the degree of doctor of medicine upon 

 students who complete this course and pass 

 the examination successfully. The training 

 will be regardless of creed, but the bulk of the 

 students at first will naturally be christians. 



The total number of matriculated students 

 during the present summer at the German 

 universities is 39,581, against 37,881 last win- 

 ter and 37,813 during the summer of 1903. 

 Ten years ago the attendance was about 11,000 

 less than to-day. Eleven thousand seven hun- 

 dred and seventy-five of the present students 

 study law, 8,111 philology and history, 5,945 

 medicine, 5,945 mathematics or natural sci- 



ences, 2,235 evangelical theology, and 1,770 

 Catholic theology. 



The Seminary for Oriental Lang-uages at 

 Berlin has, during the present summer course, 

 156 students. Of these, 70 are jurists, 45 are 

 candidates for the diplomatic and consular 

 service, 29 are scientists, teachers and members 

 of the philosophical faculty, 18 are Govern- 

 ment officials, merchants and private persons, 

 19 are officials of the Federal post-office depart- 

 ment, 13 are army officers, 2 are physicians, 

 3 are theologians, and 2 are technicians. The 

 number of foreigners is 10. 



Professor A. Marston has been appointed 

 dean and G. W. Bissell, vice-dean of the Divi- 

 sion of Engineering of the Iowa State College, 

 both retaining their chairs as heads of their 

 respective departments. Professor L. E. Ash- 

 baugh has been appointed associate professor 

 of civil engineering and W. M. Wilson, as- 

 sistant professor of mechanical engineering. 

 A new assistant professorship of electrical en- 

 gineering has been created, but the position 

 is as yet unfilled. The last legislature has 

 established an Engineering Experiment Sta- 

 tion for which the trustees have appointed the 

 following staff: A. Marston, director; G. W. 

 Bissell, L. B. Spiney, S. W. Beyer, W. H. 

 Meeker and the president of the college. Dr. 

 A. B. Storms, ex-officio. Last year's enroll- 

 ment in the engineering division of the col- 

 lege was 675. 



Dr. H. B. Torrey has been promoted to an 

 assistant professorship of zoology at the Uni- 

 versity of California. 



J. Burt Miner, Ph.D. (Columbia), has been 

 appointed insti-uctor in philosophy in the Uni- 

 versity of Iowa. 



The managers of the Philip Walker Eund 

 have elected Mr. J. Henderson Smith, B.R., 

 Balliol College, of Oxford University (M.B. 

 Edin.), to the Philip Walker studentship for 

 three years. This is the first election to the 

 studentship, which has only been founded dur- 

 ing the past year for the furtherance of orig- 

 inal research in pathology. 



Baron von Eiselberg, professor of surgery 

 in the University of Vienna, has declined an 

 invitation to succeed Professor Konig in the 

 corresponding chair at Berlin. 



