Maech 23, 1900.] 



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University of Pennsylvania. Leland Stanford Jr. Uni- 



University of Wisconsin. versity. 



Catholic University of Yale University. 

 America.. 



Other institutions may be admitted, at the annual 

 conference, on the invitation of tlie Executive Com- 

 mittee, endorsed by a three-fourths vote of the mem- 

 bers of the Association. 



The Association shall hold an annual conference at 

 such time and place as the Executive Committee may 

 direct. 



The Executive Committee shall prepare a pro- 

 gram for each meeting. 



The officers of the Association shall be : President, 

 Vice-President, and Secretary. These three, with two 

 others elected by the Association, shall constitute the 

 Executive Committee. 



In each conference each university may have any 

 number of representatives, but each university shall 

 have a single vote. 



No act of the Association shall be held to control 

 the policy or line of action of any institution belong- 

 ing to it. 



After the adoption of this constitution, the 

 following officers were elected for the ensuing 

 year : 



For the President of the Association — the 

 Representative of Harvard University. 



For the Vice-President — the Representative 

 of the University of California. 



For the Secretary — the Representative of the 

 University of Chicago. 



For the additional members of the Executive 

 Committee — the Representatives of Columbia 

 University and Johns Hopkins University. 



At a meeting of the Executive Committee 

 the Secretary was authorized to communicate 

 with each of the institutions concerned, and to 

 secure, if possible, the formal acceptance by 

 each institution of membership in the Associa- 

 tion. 



It was decided by the Executive Committee 

 to hold the next annual meeting during the last 

 week of February iu the city of Chicago. It 

 was also voted that the meeting should not in- 

 clude more than four sessions, and that each 

 univer.sity should be asked to suggest topics for 

 discussion. The following topics were pro- 

 posed : 'Migration,' 'Fellowships,' 'Subordi- 

 nate Requirements for the Doctor's Degree,' 

 'The Printing of Dissertations.' 



The Chairman of the Committee was author- 

 ized to appoint some person to prepare a state- 

 ment of facts concerning each topic to be dis- 

 cussed. It was decided that one topic should 

 be taken up for discussion at each session. It 

 was voted that the A.ssocia.tion should not ap- 

 point a representative for the Paris Exposition, 

 and that it should not undertake at present to 

 secure legislation with reference to the pro- 

 tection of higher degrees. The Federation of 

 Graduate Clubs was given an opportunity to 

 present statements in writing on the topics dis- 

 cussed in the Association. 



GENERAL. 



As we announced recently, a school of for- 

 estry is about to be established at Yale Uni- 

 versity. At a meeting of the corporation on 

 March 16th, a gift of $150,000 for this purpose 

 was acknowledged. The donors are Mr. and 

 Mrs. J. W. Pinchot, and their sous, Mr. GifFord 

 Pinchot, '89, and Mr. Amos. R. Pinchot, '97. 

 The donors also authorized the use of a large 

 tract of land in Pike County, Pa., for a summer 

 school. Mr. Henry S. Graves, '92, has been 

 appointed professor of forestry. Mr. Graves is 

 assistant in the Division of Forestry, Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, of which Mr. Gifford 

 Pinchot is chief. 



Mr. Ezra Warner, of Chicago, has given 

 $50,000 to Middlebury College, for a science 

 building, the erection of which will be begun at 

 once. Mr. Warner graduated from Middle- 

 bury College in 1861. 



The Alumni of Haverford College have sub- 

 scribed $40,000 for a gymnasium. 



It has been decided that the new laboratory 

 for physiology and anatomy at Cornell Uni- 

 versity, for which $80,000 was recently given, 

 will be situated in the quadrangle east of Board- 

 man Hall. 



The bequest of about $2,000,000 by the 

 Russian merchant, Mr. Astrachow for the es- 

 tablishment of a university for women at Mos- 

 cow, has been accepted by the government. It 

 is, proposed first to establish faculties of medi- 

 cine and of science. 



The Michigan Gas Association at its annual 

 meeting in Detroit, February 22d, raised a fund 



