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[N. S. Vol. XI. No. 271. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Me. a. W. Grabau has been appointed in- 

 structor in geology in tlie Rensselaer Polytech- 

 nic Institute, Troy, N. Y. 



Obeelin College receives $75,000 by the 

 will of the late Mrs. Caroline E. Haskell of 

 Michigan City, Indiana, and $40,000 by the will 

 of the late William Osborne of Pittsburg. 



By provision of the will of the late Dr. John 

 Stanford Sayre, U. S. N., retired, Princeton 

 University will receive $40,000, part of which 

 is for the endowment of fellowships in applied 

 chemistry and in applied electricity. 



Undee the will of the late Mr. Joseph Kaye, 

 the Medical Department of the University Col- 

 lege of Sheffield has received £1000 for the 

 purpose of founding a scholarship for second- 

 year students. 



We learn from Nature that by the will of the 

 Mr. W. Hiddingh, who died on December 10, 

 1899, the University of the Cape of Good Hope 

 is bequeathed the sum of 5000Z. for the founda- 

 tion of a scholarship to enable young persons 

 to pursue and complete a course of professional 

 study, the scholarship to be tenable for four 

 years. To the University is also bequeathed the 

 sum of 25,000Z. for the purpose of building a 

 university hall and suitable university offices, 

 and a large piece of ground for the site of the 

 building. The South African College will re- 

 ceive the sum of 10,000i. for the erection of a 

 students' building. 



The University of Nebraska celebrated its 

 thirty-first anniversary on February 15th, 

 known as ' Charter Day,' by an oration by Dr. 

 Allen R. Benton, Chancellor from 1871 to 1876, 

 and since then of the faculty of Butler Univer- 

 sity, Irvington, Ind. After the oration, degrees 

 were conferred upon sis students who had 

 completed the work for the degree of B. A., and 

 upon one who had completed the work for the 

 degree of B.Sc. The Regents, at their Charter 

 Day meeting, discussed again the all-year-plan, 

 i. e., the plan of having four quarters of instruc- 

 tion, as in the University of Chicago. The 

 subject was again referred to the Regents' 

 Committee on Courses of Study. Dr. T. L. 

 Bolton, of Clark University, was elected In- 

 structor in Philosophy, to fill the place made 



vacant by the recent death of Dr. Leon 

 M. Solomons. Although the chancellorship was 

 discussed, no election was made. It is the ex- 

 pectation of the Regents to make an election at 

 their April meeting. The new Experiment 

 Station Hall was accepted from the contractors, 

 and it will be occupied at once. A contract was 

 let for the completion of Grant Memorial Hall, 

 by the building of a large transept which will 

 double the capacity of the hall. The sugar- 

 beet industry, in Nebraska, having passed the 

 experimental stage, the Regents Ordered the 

 discontinuance of the sugar-beet experiments 

 on the Experiment Station. 



Anothee bill has been introduced into the 

 Senate, establishing a University of the United 

 States. The bill provides that the government 

 of the university shall be vested in a board of 

 regents to be composed of the President of the 

 United States, who shall be president of the 

 board ; the Chief Justice of the United States, 

 who shall be vice-president of the board ; the 

 commissioner of education, the president of the 

 university, the secretary of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, the president of the National Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, the president of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science,, 

 the president of the National Educational As- 

 sociation, the president of the American Asso- 

 ciation of Agricultural Colleges and Experi- 

 mental Stations, the president of the American 

 Historical Society, the president of the Wash- 

 ington Academy of Sciences, the presidents of 

 the ten institutions of learning exclusive of 

 State universities having the largest number of 

 graduate students doing systematic original 

 work ; the presidents of the ten State univer- 

 sities having the largest number of graduate 

 students engaged in like manner ; the presi- 

 dents of the ten other institutions, in as many 

 States, not otherwise represented, having the 

 largest number of students in the senior class 

 of the academic departments, and six other 

 citizens who, with their successors, shall be ap- 

 pointed by the President of the United States, 

 by and with the advice and consent of the Sen- 

 ate. It is provided that ' University Square,' 

 recently occupied by the old naval observatory, 

 in this city, be the site for the national uni- 

 versity. 



