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be remembered that on ]\Iay 5 the faculty of 

 the institute adopted by a vote of 56 to 7 the 

 report of the committee adverse to the affilia- 

 tion. A full account of the report adopted 

 by the faculty and of the minority report, 

 together with an account of the meeting of 

 the alumni on May 4 has been published in 

 a special issue of The Technology Review. 



Gexeral "William J. Palmer, of Colorado 

 Springs, Col., and Mr. Andrew Carnegie have 

 donated respectively $100,000 and $50,000 as a 

 nucleus to the $500,000 endowment fund for 

 Colorado College. 



At the Commencement exercises of the 

 Catholic University of America the rector. 

 Mgr. O'Connell, stated that the university 

 possesses, untouched by the Waggaman fail- 

 ure, assets and resources valued at $1,003,801. 

 The bishops' collection ordered by the pope 

 has resulted in $113,550 being turned into the 

 treasury from 77 dioceses. A contingent 

 fund of $200,000 has been raised since the 

 Waggaman failure and has been invested in 

 railroad bonds. 



Earl B. Lovell, adjunct professor of civil 

 engineering at Columbia University has been 

 appointed director of the College of Civil Engi- 

 neering, at Cornell University, as successor to 

 the late Professor E. A. Fuertes. 



Dr. Ralph Hamiltox Curtiss, lately Car- 

 negie assistant at the Lick Observatory, has 

 been appointed assistant professor of astron- 

 omy at the University of Western Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



In accordance with the tutorial system 

 adopted by Princeton University, preceptors 

 with the grade of assistant professor have been 

 appointed in the department of philosophy and 

 psychology as follows : Professor R. B. John- 

 son, of Miami University; Dr. Adam Leroy 

 Jones, of Columbia University; Professor W. 

 T. Marvin, of Western Reserve University; 

 Dr. Wilmon IT. Sheldon, of Columbia Univer- 

 sity, and Dr. E. G. Spaulding, of the College 

 of the City of New York. 



The following appointments have been 

 made in the scientific departments of the Uni- 

 versity of North Carolina : T. F. Hickerson, 



instructor in mathematics; J. C. Hines, Jr., 

 assistant in physics; E. B. Jeffress and B. H. 

 Perry, assistants in geolog-y; W. H. Kibler, 

 B. F. Royal, T. P. Cheshire, assistants in biol- 

 ogy; E. E. Randolph, C. W. Martin, L. M. 

 Kelly, G. L. Paddisson, assistants in chem- 

 istry. 



Dr. James Bissell Pratt has been ap- 

 pointed instructor in philosophy and psychol- 

 ogy, at Williams College. 



Two fellowships of the value of $500 each, 

 granted annually by the Woman's College of 

 Baltimore, have this year been awarded to 

 Miss Sabina Claire Ackerman, Easton, Pa., 

 who will study chemistry at the University 

 of Pennsylvania, and to ]Miss Sara White Cull, 

 who will study biology at Columbia Univer- 

 sity. Other awards in science were as fol- 

 lows : The two scholarships at the Marine 

 Biological Laboratory, at Woods Hole, Mass., 

 to Miss Katie M. Brough, of Hanover, Pa., 

 and to Miss Mary J. Hogue, of West Chester, 

 Pa., both members of the graduating class. 

 Three Woman's College scholarships, estab- 

 lished at the Cold Spring Harbor Marine 

 Laboratory of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts 

 and Sciences, to Miss Ethel Nicholson Browne, 

 Miss Hettie Cole Caldwell and Miss Maude 

 Cecil Gunther, of Baltimore, members of the 

 junior class. 



Mr. Clarence Morgan (Harvard) has been 

 appointed to the new chair of railway trans- 

 portation at McGill University, and H. H. 

 Mackay (Dalhousie) has been appointed as- 

 sistant professor of civil engineering. 



Mr. William Findlay, tutor in mathematics 

 at Columbia University, has been appointed 

 professor of mathematics at McMaster Uni- 

 versity, Canada. 



Mr. a. R. Lord, B.A. Oxon., assistant to 

 the professor of moral philosophy and lecturer 

 on political science in Aberdeen University, 

 has been appointed professor of philosophy 

 and history in the Rhodes University College, 

 Grahamstown, Cape Colony. 



Mr. Edward P. Culverwell, M.A., fellow 

 of Trinity College, Dublin, has been ap- 

 pointed to the new chair of education in the 

 university. 



