posed woman's building and gymnasium. The new structure will afford a modern and completely equipped gymnasium for women, with all accessories, including a large swimming pool. The building will include administrative rooms for the dean of women, office of the chaperones, luncheon room, tea room, parlors, rest room, restaurant, as well as halls for the young women's literary, musical and social organizations. The general purpose is to provide a pleasant, home-like clubhouse for the nine hundred young women attending the university.

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At a meeting of the special committee. of the board of trustees of the University of Maine the contract for the new agricultural building on the campus was awarded to George H. Wilbur & Son of Dark Harbor for $34,446. The new building, which will be commodious and handsome, built substantially of Maine brick with granite trimmings, will occupy a place between the present farm building and the greenhouses. The money The money is on hand and work will probably be commenced as soon as the frost is out of the ground.

Compulsory education is provided for in Oklahoma's new constitution. Text books are to be uniform and domestic science, agriculture, horticulture and stock-feeding are to be included in the school courses.

As a result of Dr. Patrick's talk a large sum was promised. Miss Gould contributed $10,000; Mrs. Russell Sage, $10,000; Miss Grace H. Dodge, $10,000; John H. Converse of Philadelphia, $10,ooo, while a society woman of Boston pledged $50,000, with the understanding that her name was not to be mentioned. A note was received from a New York woman prominent in social and philanthropic circles, who also pledged a large amount of money, but wished her name withheld.

Outside of the money subscribed, $50,ooo of which is to go to build a preparatory school, the sum of $350,000 is needed as a permanent endowment fund, besides a sum sufficient to erect a central college building. Ten thousand dollars accrues to the college annually from students' fees and tuition. This is required. for the running expenses.

The work of renovating that part of the college damaged by fire will be begun at once. When the college is better equipped with buildings an affiliation with the women's colleges in America is contemplated for advanced study in history and art.

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Andrew Carnegie announced in a letter to President William Goodell Frost that he would give $200,000 to Berea College subject to the condition that the college raise $200,000 to make up the sum that President Frost deems necessary if the institution is to carry on its work among both the whites and Negroes of Kentucky.

Founded among anti-slavery Kentuckians before the Civil War, Berea College was in a position in 1866 to admit colored students exactly as a Northern school would do. But now a new law, backed by Southern sentiment, requires the college to make separate provision for its

white and black students.

For this purpose what has become known as an "adjustment fund" of $400,ooo is needed to provide lands, building and equipment for the colored school. Besides Mr. Carnegie's gift about $50,ooo has been pledged. W. G. Frost is president of Berea.

Rev. Henry M. Sanders, D.D., who in 1901 retired from the pastorate of the Madison Avenue Baptist Church, of which he had been the head for ten years, has given $75,000 to Vassar College for the erection of a chemical laboratory. Plans for the building have already been accepted. Work of construction will begin before Feb. 15. It is expected that when school reopens next fall the three story building will be ready for occupancy.

Dr. Sanders has, with his wife, always been interested in educational questions. In 1900 Mrs. Sanders entertained 150 working girls at her home, and got them. to join with her in various social and educational works.

The laboratory will cost about $90,000, the difference between this amount and that of Dr. Sanders's gift to be taken. from the resource fund of the college. It is to be of brick with terra cotta facings and in accord with the other buildings of the college. The structure will be 130 by 60 feet.

The gift which Dr. Sanders has made to Vassar will make it possible for that institution to provide for its students of chemistry accommodations and facilities greater than those enjoyed by the students in any other girls' college.

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Trinity College, Conn., has received by bequest of the late John Ordronaux, M. D., LL. D., $10,000. Dr. Ordronaux (Hon. '70) was an eminent lecturer and writer on medical jurisprudence and had lectured on that subject at Columbia Law School, Dartmouth University of Vermont, and Boston University Law School. He left a valuable body of writings upon the different legal phases of insanity.

The school management committee of the Chicago Board of Education has voted to abolish secret societies in the Chicago high schools. This means an end to the fraternities so far as the official tolerance of the school authorities is concerned. The new rule must withstand a storm of legal attacks, which, it is expected, will be made upon it, but the score or more of court decisions by

which similar rules have been upheld in various parts of the country are thought to be more than dugh to insure the rule's validity.

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The will of Miss Alice Byington, of Stockbridge, Mass., which was filed for probate last month, disposes of an estate of $400,000, and these public bequests are made:

To Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va., and to Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala., each $50,000; to Mount Hermon School for Boys and Northfield Seminary, Moody schools at Northfield, Mass., each $25,000; to Miss Mary Adele Brewer, sister of Justice David J. Brewer of the United States Supreme Court, $25,000. The residue of the estate is given to Hampton Institute, which will eventually receive more than $160,000.

Miss Byington was a daughter of the late Judge Horatio Byington of the Massachusetts Superior Court, who died in Stockbridge in 1856. She was a close friend of the late General S. C. Armstrong, founder of Hampton Institute.

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From a source which can not vet be publicly announced, the Harvard Dental School has received promise of the funds necessary for the erection of a new building. The site which has been chosen is in Brookline, adjoining the property on which the buildings of the Medical School stand. It is an excellent situation for the new building, both from its convenient proximity to the Medical School and because the new hospitals and other institutions which are being, or are soon to be, built in that section will contribute to the clinical work of the students of the Dental School.

As the gift to the Dental School is immediately available the actual work of construction will be begun in the spring as soon as the frost is out of the ground, and will be pushed as fast as possible. The set of plans which was drawn a year ago when the project for the new building was first published, have been abandoned because of a change in the scheme which made them impracticable. A new set of plans is now in course of

preparation, which will be entirely different from the first lot. Last year at this time the amount available for the building fund was only $ 000, and at that time $500,000 was considered essential for the erection and suitable endowment of the school.

The work of the Dental School has been greatly hampered for some years past by the inadequacy of its location. With the new building the school will have a greater opportunity to carry on the efficient charity work that is being steadily developed. The clinical work of the students among poor people who cannot afford the services of a private practitioner is very extensive. The change will result in bringing the Boston. departments of the university into a single great plant, with equipment and surroundings better than any other department of the university has.

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At the quarterly meeting of the board. of trustees of Princeton University held last month the annual report of the treasurer showed the total reecipts for the year 1906-07 were $592,037.75 and the total disbursements $563.910.64. With With last year's balance of $38,710.26 and gifts of cash, real estate, bonds, etc., for the endowment account amounting to $795.735.82, the net balance to the university for the year is $862.573.19.

Gifts to the amount of $24,903.35 and a bequest of $25,000 from the late Professor S. Stanhope Orris for the endowment of scholarships were also announced.

President Wilson in his annual report praised the preceptorial system. He said that the board of trustees have become deeply convinced of the substantial success of the new plan. He said that the new course of study and the new methods of instruction had stood the test of use and experience, and he added that no modifications of any consequence had been necessary.

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Colorado College has just succeeded in raising $457,000 toward endowment, thus securing $50,000 pledged by the general education board conditional on the college raising $450,000. The endowment

now amounts to over $908,000. In twenty years the college has grown from almost nothing to a college of 629 students, with a faculty of forty-one, a campus valued at $200,000, and buildings and equipment valued at nearly $800,000. Besides the college of liberal arts, there are schools of forestry and of engineering. The college is one of the fifty-one in the country to receive the benefit of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. It has a chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa society.

Lord Curzon is trying to raise a fund of $1,250,000 or more for the University of Oxford; at latest advices he had obtained about $275,000. Both Oxford and Cambridge are hard up, and the "Sun" wonders why so rich a country as England leaves them in that uncomfortable condition. "The University of Berlin," it says, "receives yearly from the Prussian State nearly $850,000, while it is estimated that within a decade the universities and colleges of the United States have had funds donated by private persons amounting in the aggregate to more than $200,000,000. In two years alone the money derived from individual subscriptions reached a total of almost $35,000,000.

The University of Wisconsin has begun the publication of a series of high school bulletins to include a number of manuals for high school teachers. The object of the new series is to outline the ways and means of accomplishing the generally accepted purposes of the several studies in the high school curriculum. The organization of the high school courses, the methods of teaching, discussion of textbooks lists of reference books, and other material of assistance to high school principals and teachers are included in these bulletins. The first in the series is "The High School in English," by Willard G. Bleyer, assistant professor of English, and the second number is the recently published "High School Course in German," by M. B. Evans, assistant professor of German. Others in preparation, to be issued during the coming year, include "The High

School Course in Mathematics," by E. B. Skinner, assistant professor of mathematics, "The High School Course in Latin," by a committee of the recently organized Wisconsin Latin Teachers' Association: "A Report on the Entrance Examinations in Composition," by Willard G. Bleyer; "The High School Course in French," by Hugh Allison Smith, assistant professor of romance languages; and "Public Speaking in the High School," by Rollo L. Lyman, assistant professor of public speaking. It is planned to publish other bulletins from time to time dealing with the other subjects in the high school curriculum and with other matters pertaining to secondary school work.

The trustees of the Carnegie Foundation have decided that Wesleyan University is ineligible for benefits on the ground of being a sectarian institution. Although a change was made in the charter of the college last spring for this special purpose, the difficulty was not obviated, inasmuch as thirteen patronizing conferences still elect trustees for the college. The charter is the only means by which the Foundation trustees can judge as to whether a college is sectarian, and when any such clause as that above mentioned is present in the charter of any college, benefits are refused on account of sectarianism.

Announcement is made that the New York University Law School Library has received 20,000 volumes, 14,000 volumes of which have been added during the past twelve years, in which time the university has expended more than $40,000 on the library. The 20,000 volumes mark has been reached with late additions, consisting of the codes and general commercial laws of Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Holland, Belgium, Norway, Sweden and Denmark which have just been put on reference. The rapid growth of the law library has been the result of a systematic attempt, begun in 1895, to make it one of the best of its kind. At that time the library consisted of the original foundation of some 5000 volumes, to which about 1000 volumes had been added. The university had devoted most of its energies to raising the standard of teaching, and the library had been neglected. Scarcely a single set of reports was complete. Today, however, originals of every State and Territory except South Carolina have been received and kept complete to date, originals of Federal reports in all divisions have been cured. Canadian reports have been completed and Australian and New Zealand reports of great value have been collected, and English reports since the judicature act have been duplicated.

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Leslie W. Miller delivered an address at Philadelphia last month before the

Urges Need of Industrial Education.

American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. Mr. Miller is principal of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia and is one of the most noted authorities on Industrial training in this country. He said: No time need be lost in urging the need of industrial education, or the public duty in reference to it. From the humblest parent who takes his child out of school at the earlist moment that the law allows, to the President himself, who has pleaded earnestly for it in both of his more recent messages to Congress, everyone who thinks about the matter at all is praying for help, for society and individual alike, through a more intelligent adjustment of educational methods to present-day requirements, of which the call of the industries is of course an exceedingly important part. Men are everywhere seeking, not to be convinced of the necessity of doing something, but to be shown how to do it. They turn first to the public schools, but a very little reflection will show that this is not to any great extent a public school question at all. The common school has its own very distinctive and honorable place well established and well defined. Undoubtedly something can be done in the way of giving more sensible, because more practical, direction to the work in the elementary branches, largely by eliminating some of the more obvious vanities by which this grade of instruction is weakened at present, but it is plain

enough that anything that is to be taken very seriously as industrial education must begin after the pupil has passed the age at which he is supposed to leave the grammar school, so that the whole question revolves itself at once into a high school problem. Here again it is quite true that a good deal may be done. We have only to carry the manual training idea a little further, specialize a little more definitely, and concentrate our efforts a little more on particular trades, which pupils are required to choose, instead of introducing each pupil to the elements of all trades, and much useful information may be given and excellent tendencies developed-there is no doubt about that-and if short courses covering at most two years are offered, that dreadful gap that intervenes in the life of the boy or girl between fourteen and sixteen, when at least ninety per cent of them are neither pupil nor apprentice, may be largely filled.

But even this will leave what is by far the larger part of the question untouched. What American industry needs is a kind of education that cannot be given to boys of sixteen. We must have something that will go a long way beyond that. We need in this country a few model establishments that will set high standards of excellence in all the nobler forms of craftsmanship, and that may serve as conservatories of the best traditions, and as centers of distribution for the technical information on which their exercise depends. Try to imagine that the textile industry would have been in France without the Gobelins, or what the ceramic arts would have been without