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called ' Cupples Station.' The annual income 

 from this gift to the University will be from 

 $120,000 to §130,000 per j'ear. The gift is to 

 form a permanent endowment fund, the inter- 

 est of which is to be expended by the Board of 

 Directors in any way which it sees fit. 



By the will of the late Jonas G. Clark of Wor- 

 cester, Mass., who founded Clark University in 

 1SS9, the entire estate is left to the university, 

 providing the people of Worcester raise a fund 

 of $500,000. If the sum of $250,000 is raised, 

 he bequeaths $500,000. If $500,000 is raised, 

 he bequeaths $1,000,000 and makes the univer- 

 sity his residuary legatee. He also leaves $100,- 

 000 for the university library and $100,000 for 

 a department of art. 



Dr. D. K. Pearsons has offered $50,000 to 

 Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., on condi- 

 tion that the college authorities raise $100,000 

 before Jan. 1, 1901. 



The late Edward Wheelwright has left his 

 estate, after the death of his widow, to be di- 

 vided equally between Harvard University and 

 the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. 



The collection of water colors belonging to 

 the late Professor O. C. Marsh, being part of 

 the estate left by him to Yale University, have 

 been sold for about $500. They are said to 

 have cost over $10,000. 



By the will of Henry M. Curry the Western 

 University of Pennsylvania receives $10,000 for 

 scholarships. 



The University of Pennsylvania has received 

 $20,000 each, from Mr. J. D. Lippencott and 

 Mr. J. G. Carruth. 

 , The University of Michigan has followed the 

 example recently set by Harvard, Cornell and 

 Columbia Universities by making its entrance 

 requirements more flexible and the same for the 

 several degrees it still offers in its literary de- 

 partment. According to the new schedule, 

 fifteen units are required for admission, a unit 

 being one subject pursued for not less than four 

 periods a week through a school year. The 

 fifteen units must include three units of English, 

 three of mathematics, and one of phj'sics. The 

 remaining eight units are to be selected from 

 the following list, but they must include two 



units of either Latin, French or German. The 

 figures indicate the number of units for which 

 each subject may be counted : Greek, 2 ; Latin, 

 2 or 4 ; German, 2 or 4 ; English literature, 1 ; 

 history, 1, 2 or 3 ; chemistry, 1 ; botany, 1 ; 

 zoology, 1 ; biology (a half year each of botany 

 and zoology), 1 ; physiography, 1. 



Dr. Frank Morley, for the past thirteen 

 years professor of mathematics in Haverford 

 College, has accepted a call from Johns Hopkins 

 University. Dr. Thomas Craig has resigned the 

 professorship of mathematics in this University. 



Professor M. C. White, who has for thirty- 

 three years held the chair of pathology in the 

 Medical School of Yale University, has become 

 professor emeritus and is succeeded by Professor 

 Charles J. Bartlett. 



James M. Toitmey, professor of biology in 

 the University of Arizona and director of the 

 Agricultural Experiment Station at Tucson, has 

 been elected assistant professor of forestry at 

 Yale University. 



Dr. Charles A. Elwood, instructor in the 

 University of Nebraska, has been elected pro- 

 fessor of sociology in the University of Missouri. 

 He is a graduate of Cornell University and the 

 University of Chicago. 



The instructors in the summer school of 

 Harvard University include the following : In 

 psychology, Dr. BlacDougall ; in education, 

 Professor Hanus and Mr. Norton ; in theory of 

 design, Mr. Ross, Mr. Clark, and BIr. Swan ; 

 in mathematics. Dr. Smith, Mr. Love, Mr. 

 Ash ton, and Dr. Campbell ; in astronomy. Mr. 

 Reed ; in engineering, Mr. Turner ; in .shop- 

 work, Professor Burke ; in physics. Professor 

 Sabine, Mr. McElfresh, and Mr. Collins ; in 

 chemistry. Dr. Torrey, Mr. Wheeler, and Mr. 

 Black ; in botan5', Mr. Olive and Mr. King ; 

 in geology, Professor Shaler, Professor Brig- 

 ham, Mr. Woodworth, and Mr. Woodman ; in 

 geography, Professor Davis and Mr. Burr ; in 

 mineralogy, Dr. Eakle ; in physical training, 

 Dr. Sargent. 



Miss Cora J. Beckwith, assistant in the 

 zoological laboratorj' of the University of Michi- 

 gan, has been appointed assistant instructor in 

 zoology at Vassar College for the year 1900 

 1901. 



