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SCIENCE. 



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necessary. We are in face of industrial strug- 

 gles, and we must utilize both science and art 

 to supply the wants of our own and other coun- 

 tries, and to provide commodities made in Eng- 

 land, besides handling 



" Things of beauty, things of use. 

 That one fair planet can produce, 

 Brought from under every star." 

 We are in face of a struggle for existence in 

 which we know full well that only the fittest 

 will survive. How are we going to carry on 

 the struggle? What are our weapons? Our 

 first line of defence in this direction can only 

 consist of our universities aud our teaching 

 centers. Have we enough of them? We 

 know already that we have not enough of 

 them, because we have already lost several im- 

 portant engagements in these industrial battles. 

 Are there no means by which we can judge of 

 their sufficiency ? In those less peaceful strug- 

 gles among nations which must sometimes arise 

 we have a first line of defence of another kind — 

 our Navy. In that case we have the well- 

 understood and generally acknowledged princi- 

 ple that our fleet must be equal to the fleets of 

 any two other possibly contending nations. 

 This principle, I think, should be applied to 

 our first line of defence in these industrial 

 conflicts the results of which are more endur- 

 ing. Do our teaching and research centers at 

 present outnumber in the same proportion, as 

 do our ships, those of any two nations which 

 are actually contending with us in peaceful 

 enterprise? And, also, are they equally efiicient 

 in every respect? I believe, aud I know that 

 this view is held by many representative men 

 of science, that until our universities, our sci- 

 ence schools, our art schools, and our technical 

 institutions bear the same relation both in 

 number and efficiency to those of other nations 

 as do our battleships, cruisers, aud small craft, 

 we shall not be justified in regarding the future 

 of the empire with that freedom from care 

 which is the attribute of a strong man armed. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Me. James Milliken of Decatur, 111., has 

 oflered $200,000 and land for the establishment 

 of a college under the auspices of the Cumber- 

 land Presbyterian Church of that place. It is 



said that the citizens will give over $100,000 

 toward the college. 



New York Univeesity has received $20,000 

 and Rutgers College $10,000 by the will of the 

 late Robert Schell of New York. 



A SCHOLAESHIP in New York University has 

 been endowed with $2500 by Dean and Mrs. 

 Edward R. Shaw in memory of their son, a 

 member of the class of 1900, who died last year. 



The Ohio Institute of Mining Engineers has 

 undertaken to defray the cost of a scholarship 

 of $100 annually at the School of Mines of the 

 Ohio State University. 



The first meeting of the Court of Governors 

 of the Birmingham University was convet,ed 

 for the 31st inst. The donations to the endow- 

 ment fund whicht have already been promised 

 amount to -$327, 000. 



At Harvard University Dr. R. DeC. Ward 

 has been promoted to an assistant professor- 

 ship of climatology, and Mr. W. C. Sabine to 

 an assistant pi'ofessorship of physics. 



The following promotions have been made in 

 the Philosophical Department of the University 

 of Michigan : Mr. George Rebec, Ph.D. (Michi- 

 gan), instructor in philosophy, to be assistant 

 professor of philosophy ; Mr. W. B. Pillsbury, 

 Ph.D. (Cornell), instructor in psychology, to 

 be assistant professor of philosophy and director 

 of the psychological laboratory. 



George H. Ling, now instructor of mathe- 

 matics at Wesleyan University, has been ap- 

 pointed a professor at the Cincinnati University. 



Professor Pieere de Peyster Ricketts 

 has resigned from the chair of analytical chem- 

 istry of Columbia University. 



De. August Toplee, professor of physics at 

 the Technical Institute of Dresden, will retire 

 on the first of October. 



De. Franz Kossmat, assistant in the Aus- 

 trian Geological Survey, has qualified as doceut 

 in the University of Vienna, and Dr. Paul 

 Ehrenreich as decent in ethnology at Berlin. 



Dr. Aethur Weeschnee has qualified as 

 decent for philosophy and psychology at 

 Zurich. The subject of his inaugural address 

 was ' The Influence of Leibnitz on pre-Kantian 

 Psychology and .3Ssthetics.' 



