a locker room, and a lavatory. The main floor, 3,300 square feet in area, will be occupied with the forge and foundry. The ground floor is paved with cement except where this is omitted for the requirements of forging and moulding.

On the second floor are offices and two lecture rooms, each having an area of 600 square feet. The main shop on this floor, which will be equipped for iron and machine work, is 109 by 31 feet. A tool room is located in the center of this shop and is partitioned from it by wire. screens, so that an unobstructed view of the shop may be obtained from any position. The third floor is similar in plan and its main shop will be equipped for pattern making and woodworking.

A large double stack passes up the center of the west side-wall. One flue of this stack wlil be used for the forges and the other for the brass furnace. Two

smaller stacks are placed on the opposite side-wall, and they are intended, mainly,

for ventilation.

The building is covered with a slag roof; and with the exception of this roof it will be entirely fireproof. The heating will be steam radiation operated on the Webster vacuum system; and the lighting will be done entirely with electric lamps and reflecting arcs. The elevator and the machinery in the various shops will be operated only with electric motors; and long lines of countershafting will be avoided by grouping the machinery on separate motor drives.

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lege, Geneva, N. Y., announced a gift of $20,000 for a new gymnasium. The name of the donor is withheld.

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The Illinois legislature has appropri ated $100,000 to the State Normal at Bloomington, for the erection of a new manual arts building.

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Although no definite announcement has been made, it is authentically reported that a $60,000 girls' dormitory will be built soon as an addition to Colorado College, Colorado Springs. The building will probably be named after Mrs. J. M. Bemis, who will furnish a

large part of the funds. Official announcement of this, as well as other contemplated improvements, will be made by President Slocum Slocum commencement day.

The educational commission of the Georgia Baptist convention is making every endeavor to raise $300,000 to be given as an endowment fund to Mercer University. Already the people of Georgia have given liberally, and the commission has received sums as great as $10,000. It now has in hand quite a large amount, and by steady effort hopes to finally swell the collection to $300,000. The general educational board of New York has announced that as soon as the $300,000 has been raised it will give $75,000 to the university.

Work of improvement is going forward rapidly at Mercer. A new dormitory is nearly completed, and plans are being prepared for the new library to which Carnegie has given $120,000.

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Amherst College is to benefit under the will of Edward W. Currier to the amount of about $500,000. Mr. Currier was a member of the class of '65. He died twelve months ago, and left $500,000 to his alma mater, subject to the life interest of a relative. She died recently, and the college comes into its legacy.

After a meeting of the Board of Directors of Union Theological Seminary, New York, held in connection with the seventy-first annual commencement of the institution, it was announced that an unnamed donor had given $200,000 to the institution. At the annual graduation exercises, President Charles Cuthbert Hall announced that the gift would be applied toward the erection of the new buildings upon Morningside Heights and adjoining Columbia University.

With two exceptions the gift is the largest that has come to the seminary in many years. One exception was the anonymous gift of the two city blocks on Morningside Heights, at Claremont Avenue. The recent gift brings the total cash of the seminary on hand up to

nounced by Dr. Samuel Plantz, president of Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis. Miss Florence Childs of Edgerton has given the university $25,000 toward the $150,000 it is endeavoring to raise in order to secure a $50,000 endowment from the general education board. recognition of the gift the chair of mathematics at the university will hereafter be known as the "Childs chair."

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Additional gifts by Wisconsin people, Additional gifts by Wisconsin people, as announced by President Plantz, are as follows: J. A. Kimberly, of Neenah, Wis., $5,000; L. J. Nash, Manitowoc, $2,500; I. K. Hamilton, Two Rivers, $1,000, and E. A. Edmunds, Rhinelander, $1,000. Recently Lawrence University received a gift of $15,000 toward the $150,000 from a man whose name is not made public, at his own request. He gave over half of his possessions and made a verbal promise of giving $10,000 more when the fund is completed except that sum.

The West Virginia Wesleyan College at Buckhannon, West Virginia, has completed recently a new Administration Building at the cost of $81,000.00. The former building was destroyed by fire about eighteen months ago. Among those who assisted towards the new one are Mr. Carnegie, Dr. D. K. Pearsons, and John D. Archbold. President Wier is completing the seventh year of his administration of the College.

$60,000 in interest-bearing securities have been formally transferred by Theodore Harris to the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville, Ky., carrying out his announced intention of bestowing a gift of that amount upon the institution. This is the first big step $1,000,000, a movement to secure which toward getting an endowment fund of

has been started by President E. Y. Mullins. The gift increases the present endowment to $640,000, and it is believed that the remainder can be secured

by 1909, when the semi-centennial celebration will be held. Several other large gifts are now in prospect, although none of them has taken definite form as yet.

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Assisted by the local lodge of Masons, Lieut. Governor Francis D. Winston, most worshipful grand master of the grand lodge of Masons laid the corner stone of the new Carnegie Library building at the University of North Carolina.

The building was made possible by the munificence of Mr. Andrew Carnegie, who agreed to give $50,000 under condition that an additional $50,000 be raised among the friends of the University. President Venable and other

members of the faculty immediately set to work and their untiring energy enabled them to raise the required amount. This makes the building which is neatly designed after the most improved style of modern architecture cost $100,000. It is rapidly nearing completion, work on it being pushed rapidly in order to have it in readiness for occupancy by the opening of the session next fall. The building is constructed of compressed salt and pepper brick and when completed will be one of the handsomest pieces of architecture on the campus of any Southern institution.

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At the commencement exercises of the Lindenwood Ladies College, St. Charles, Mo., ground was broken for the new diamond jubilee college dormitory. The new building will cost $40,000, the amount having been raised by popular subscription and donations.

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Princeton University has $1,200,000 in gifts from persons who would not allow their names to be used.

All this money is for immediate use. Of this sum $600,000 is to be spent in a new physical science laboratory, $200,000 being for maintenance. The other $600,000 will go for the construction and equipment of a geological and biological museum and laboratory. This gift will place Princeton on a high footing as a technical school. The new laboratories will be part of the John C. Green School of Science, which will now be developed as was planned.

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Henry Kendall College, a Presbyterian school, for seventeen years located at Muskogee, Ind. Ter., is to be moved to Tulsa, that city having pledged a twentyacre site and $100,000 to be devoted to buildings and equipments. The property at Muskogee is valued at $125,000, will be sold and the money converted into a permanent endowment fund. Mrs. William Thaw of Pittsburgh, Pa., mother of Harry Kendall Thaw, has promised to

contribute to the endowment. The school will open at Tulsa in temporary quarters next September. Rev. A. Grant Evans is the president,

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Three important bequests were announced by the dean of Barnard College last month. The first was that of Miss Emily O. Gibbes of Newport, who had long been interested in the college. amounts to about $750,000, and will be used for the general endowment of which the college stands in need. The second was from Miss Delphine Brown, amounting to $50,000, which will not be

received until two life interests in it are paid. The third came from Mrs. Burgess, and consists of $10,000 outright, and $75,000 to be received after two life interests are paid. These will also probably be used for general endowment.

These gifts were appropriately announced on "field day," which was instituted several years ago in honor of the gift of Mrs. A. A. Anderson of the three of the college, between One Hundred and acres of ground immediately to the south

Nineteenth and One Hundred and Sixteenth Streets, on which Brooks Hall, the college dormitory, is approaching completion.

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Work has begun on the Baptist College which is to be constructed at Westminster, Texas. At the last meeting of the Collin county Baptist Association, the association pledged $5,000 for the erection of a building with the provision that the citizens of Westminster pledge an equal amount. This has been done and the work begun. The association has maintained a college at Westminster for several years, using a large frame building for the purpose.

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The Synod of Arkansas of the Southern Presbyterian church has decided to locate a college for young ladies in

Little Rock. The object is to raise $25,000 in Little Rock and $50,000 from the Presbyterians in the state at large. Every branch of the Presbyterian church in Arkansas will be asked to co-operate.

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The cornerstone laying of Oklahoma Christian University took place at Enid, Okla., last month, with imposing ceremonies under charge of Dr. E. V. Zollars, LL. D., president of the institution. Addresses were delivered by Rev. George Bradford, president of Epworth University, Oklahoma City; President David R. Boyd of Oklahoma University, Norman; W. A. Humphrey, president of the university board of regents, Guthrie, and ministers of the Christian denomination from Dallas, Oklahoma City, Kansas City, Wichita and Enid. Two thousand persons witnessed the ceremonies.

Three buildings of this educational institution are now under construction, main hall, music hall, and a girls' dormitory. Contracts have been made for a preparatory school, boys' barracks and gymnasium to be completed this year. The school will open in September. It is located on a campus of 40 acres two miles east of the center of the city. The contracts made thus far call for an expenditure of $125,000 in buildings and $100,000 in equipment. An endowment fund has been raised by contributions from wealthy members of the Christian church, amounting to over $300,000.

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John H. Hinemon, president of Henderson University, Arkansas, has announced that a meeting has been called of the representatives of the three Methodist colleges of the state to consider plans whereby they may be united under the same management. This is a step toward the end to which the leading

Methodist educators of Arkansas have

long been working. The three colleges are Henderson College, Arkadelphia; Galloway Female College, Searcy, and Hendrix College, Conway.

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Sixty-eight colleges and universities of Europe and America are represented in the faculty of Syracuse University,

which numbers 216 members. The entire body of alumni now numbers over 4,000, and they are to be found in all parts of the world. All six colleges of the University are open to men and The women on the same conditions.

first woman to receive an M. D. in College of Medicine of Syracuse Unithe United States is a graduate of the virsity.

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President Seelye of Smith College says that not every girl should go to college, and does not recommend the college education for those who are stupid or slow, and have little or no ambition to be wiser than they are. The wonder is that such girls could even get ready for college in the way of passing examination. says that in the secondary schools one often finds girls as intelligent as boys, a statement of a fact so obvious that one wonders that President Seelye should make it. One of the advantages he names as resulting from a college education is the power it gives a girl to develop desirable social traits.

The Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association will be officially represented by three members at the unveiling on Memorial Day of a tablet to Maria Mitchell in the Hall of Fame, New York University. Professor Mary W. Whitney of Vassar College, president of the association, will deliver the address on the unveiling of the tablet. Associated with her will be Mrs. Benjamin Albertson of Philadelphia, curator of the Maria Mitchell House at Nantucket, and Mrs. Charles S. Hinchman of Philadelphia, vice presidents of the association. Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) studied astronomy with her father. In 1847 she discovered a new comet, for which she was awarded the gold medal offered by Frederick IV. of Denmark. She became professor of astronomy at Vassar in 1865. Her successful efforts to obtain the same salary as the men of the faculty make her the first conspicuous advocate of equal pay for women in educational work. She was the first woman to be elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

President Woodrow Wilson of Princeton University gave out his plan for the social reorganization Princeton to Break of the university in Up Small Cliques. the last issue of the Alumni Weekly for

the year.

His suggestions are to abolish the factions now rife among students and give more class spirit. They will also, in time, abolish the clubs which have taken the place of fraternities at Princeton.

President Wilson's report and the remedy offered follow in part:

"Under the present social organization there is a constant and ever increasing disconnection between the life and work of the university. Between its championships and its duties there is almost complete disconnection regarding its hours of play and those of work.

"It has become common for sophomores to ask their instructors during the last few years whether they shall choose the life of the student or that of the clubman. This is not because the clubs try to exclude study, but because the life there is so engrossing and so tempting. Study has to take its chance in competition with these pleasures.

"Group rivalries break the solidarity of the class. The younger classes at no point are made conscious of the interests of the university; their whole time is concentrated upon individual ambitions, upon means of preference, upon combinations to obtain individual ends, and the welfare of the university is ignored."

To stop these combinations and cliques, President Wilson offers a unique plan. It is believed to be something absolutely unprecedented in educational history. While the students probably will object

at first, in the end the plan of the president, it is believed, will meet with much favor. In fact, he suggests:

"My plan is to draw the undergraduates together into residential squads, in which they shall eat as well as lodge together, and in which they shall, under the direction of a member of the faculty, regulate their own corporate life by some simple method of self-government. For this purpose it may be necessary to place all future dormitories in such relation to those already erected as to form geographical units and erect in connection with each group a kitchen, dining and serving rooms, and a handsome common room for social purposes.

"Every undergraduate will be required to actually live in his squad, and the residents will be made up as nearly as possible of members of every class. The objects of this arrangement will be to bring the faculty into close connection with the students; to bring the members of the four classes together, and give the university the common consciousness which apparently comes from the closer sorts of social contact and rid the university of combinations, cliques, and separate class social organizations.'