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SCIENCE. 



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reorganized, Denison University includes the 

 following schools : Granville College, Shepard- 

 son College, The Conservatory of Music, The 

 School of Fine Arts, The School of Military 

 Science, Doane Academy. 



Mr. Moeris K. Jesup has given $25,000 to 

 Princeton University for an object not speci- 

 fied. 



Me. K. M. Stimson has given to Marietta 

 College his library containing about 20,000 

 volumes. 



Mb. W. S. Steatton has given $50,000 to 

 Colorado College. 



Messrs. Phelps, Dodge & Co. have con- 

 tributed $10,000 to a special fund for the en- 

 dowment of the departments of mining and 

 metallurgy at Columbia University, and smaller 

 sums have been contributed to the same fund. 



A gift of $25,000 to Lombard College in 

 Galesburg, 111., by William G. Waterman of 

 Galena, 111., and another gift of $8000 by 

 Judge Sylvanus Wilcox of Elgin, nearly com- 

 plete the $100,000 semi-centennial fund of the 

 college. 



The opening of Rochester University to 

 women seems now practically assured, as of the 

 $50,000 required for that purpose $40,000 have 

 already been secured. 



Lyman C. Smith, a citizen of Syracuse, and 

 a trustee of Syracuse University, will build and 

 equip a civil engineering building for that in- 

 stitution. 



The department of geology, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, oifers, in connection with the work of 

 the summer school, an advanced course in geo- 

 logical field-work in New York and Connecti- 

 cut. The work in the corresponding course last 

 summer was in Montana and the Yellowstone 

 Park. The summer excursion for practical ob- 

 servations of mining will begin as soon after the 

 final examinations as possible, and will last six 

 weeks. Instead of the usual trip to the Lake 

 Superior iron region, the tour this summer will 

 be to the anthracite coal mines of Pennsylvania 

 and the iron mines of the Lake Champlain dis- 

 trict. 



The degrees conferred by the University of 

 Toronto at its recent commencement were as 



follows: Ph.D., 1; M.A., 17; LL.B., 2; M.B., 

 45 ; B.A., 134 ; C.E., 2 ; Mg.E., 1 ; Mech.E., 1 ; 

 B.A.Sc, 10; D.D.S., 68; Ph.M.B., 34; Mus. 

 Bac, 3. 



At the recent meeting of the Regents of the 

 University of Nebraska, Dr. Bessey, acting 

 chancellor, reported the enrollment in the 

 several colleges as follows : 



The Graduate School, 148. 



The College of Literature, Science and 



Arts, . . i 923. 



The Industrial College, 585. 



The College o£ Law, 161. 



The College of Fine Arts (Schools of 



Art and Music) , 366. 



Summer School, 282. 



After deducting duplicate names, the total 

 enrollment for the college year is 2205, of which 

 1229 are men and 976 women. 



At the commencement exercises on June 

 7th, degrees were conlarred as follows : 



Bachelor of Arts, 89. 



Bachelor of Science, 34. 



Bachelor of Law, 65. 



Master of Arts, 28. 



Doctor of Philosophy, 1. 



Certificates of graduation from the School of 

 Music, 9 ; University Teachers' Certificates, 31 ; 

 Certificates in Mechanic Arts, 2 ; Certificates in 

 Physical Training, 2. 



At the University of Nebraska the following 

 appointments have been made : Carl Christian 

 Engberg, Ph.D. (Nebraska), to be instructor 

 in mathematics. Clarence Aurelius Skinner, 

 Ph.D. (Berlin), adjunct professor in physics, in 

 place of Dr. Louis Trenchard More, resigned. 

 John Edwin Almy, M.A. (Nebraska), and 

 Ph.D. (Berlin), to be instructor in physics, in 

 place of Dr. Skinner, promoted. Dr. John 

 White has been advanced to the professorship 

 of general and analytical chemistry. The 

 twenty-five appointments to fellowships include 

 the following : 



Botany. — George Grant Hedgcock, William Titus 

 Home, Cora Frances Smith, John Lewis Sheldon. 



Electrical Engineering. — Herbert Silas Evans. 



Geology. — Cassius Asa Fisher, A.B. 



Mathematics. — Louis Siff. 



Pedagogy. — William R. Hart. 



Philosophy. — Frederick Henry Kuhlmann. 



Zoology. — Frank Elbert Watson. 



