Ricketts, the University of Chicago professor who died in Mexico City on May 3 last, a victim of typhoid fever, while engaged in the study of the disease, the National Bacteriological Institute last month unveiled a marble tablet inscribed with his name and the date of his death.

The Holy Trinity College of Dallas, Texas, has filed an amendment to its charter changing its name to University of Dallas.

Right Rev. S. S. Ortynsky, D.D., Bishop for the Ruthenian Catholics in this country, has taken title to an estate of 200 acres located near historic Yorktown, Va., on which will be established a college and seminary for candidates for the priesthood of the Byzantine rite. The great undertaking of which the first step has now been taken has been made imperative by the constantly increasing numbers of the Ruthenian Catholics in this country and the inroads upon their faith resulting from a lack of priests of their own rite and speaking their own language. The property acquired is on the York river, near Chesapeake Bay.

The work of raising an endowment fund of $250,000 for Penn College at Oskaloosa, Iowa, has been started. Each graduation class has been asked to contribute at least $1,000, and the average will run above that figure. The city of Oskaloosa will be asked to contribute $50,000 and the Iowa yearly meeting of friends $100,000.

The Agricultural College of the Kentucky State University, and the Kentucky Experiment Station located at Lexington have been united under one head and Prof. M. A. Scovell, who for many years has been director of the experiment station, was placed in charge

of the combined institution.

The Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College, and the Pulte Medical College of Cincinnati are soon to be consolidated into one medical college which will be known as the Cleveland-Pulte Homeopathic Medical College. At a meeting of the trustees of both colleges the plan of consolidation was ratified. The new

institution is to be located at the Cleveland Homeopathic college building in Cleveland. On September 21, at the opening of the fall term the new college with an increased enrollment of students and a larger faculty, will start work for another year.

There is a move on foot for the German Evangelical Synod of North America to found an educational institution at Denison, Iowa. The church is expecting to raise some $60,000 to put the undertaking on its feet. The trustees of the Denison Normal School have offered their improvements for the use of the denominational school if proper terms can be arranged.

The Texas Christian University is to remove to Fort Worth. At present the university is located at Waco, but the commencement exercises held this year are probably the last exercises of the kind that will be held in that city. Fort Worth made a large offer to secure the university.

We frequently hear that the American collegian does not learn how to write English. From Germany now comes the parallel charge that, notwithstanding the praise that has been heaped upon the German school system, the German student is rarely taught the proper use of his mother tongue. The school system of Germany has recently been severely criticised by German professors-Sprengel, Pringsheim and others, and in the Süddeutsche Monatshefte for June, Joseph Hofmiller, a well-known philologist, arraigns modern teaching for being antiquated, absurdly scholastic, and neglecting to train the student either in writing his own language or in modern methods of thought.

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At an adjourned meeting of the board of trustees of the George Peabody School for Teachers, Nashville, Tenn., recently endowed with $1,000,000 by the trustees of the Peabody Education Fund, Wyckliffe Rose was elected president of the school. It was

decided to locate the institution on the site of the old Roger Williams University, a negro school just southwest of the Vanderbilt University campus.

Berlin, Conn., is trying to have a woman's college established there. The citizens have already voted to give a site for the buildings and the Daughters of the American Revolution, the State Association of College Alumnae, the State Teachers' League and other women organizations are fostering a movement to establish a woman's college in the State. They have keen. regret that Connecticut is without an institution for the higher education of woman and believe that their efforts will result in the establishment of such an institution. West Hartford citizens are making a strong bid for the location of the proposed college in that town. Mrs. Russell Sage has been asked to aid in the establishment of the college. Now that Wesleyan has given up coeducation, there is no college for women in the state.

The finances of George Washington University, which have been in a tangle, are expected to be entirely reorganized within a short time. It is expected the reorganization would include payment of all creditors, and that all endowment funds would be specifically represented by interestbearing securities, which will be held. by trust companies and reinvested. All investments will be under control of the university's finance committee. A modern system of university bookkeeping will be installed and a permanent auditor will be named. Negotiations practically were concluded yesterday for the sale of the former site of the college for $550,000.

In the Mitchell tower at the University of Chicago is hung a peal of ten bells in memory of Alice Freeman Palmer. On July 4 these bells were rung by a band of change-ringers who that afternoon formed what is said to be the best guild of change-ringers in the United States or Canada. In

change-ringing the bells hang freely in a frame and are rung in a succession determined mathematically. A ringer is assigned to swing each bell. The first bells in this country arranged in this way were set up in Boston in 1745. Paul Revere was one of the

early ringers of Boston. The art is uncommon in this country, the band at the Groton School being the only one aside from the Chicago guild. As at Groton, it is hoped that students at the University of Chicago will learn the difficult art of campanology and increase the number and skill of the local student band.

The Yale alumni fund collected during the year 1909-10, up to June 30, 1910, is reported as $94,595 given to principal, $36,717 given to income and $13,792 received as interest on principal. Including $5,000 pledged by the class of '70 but not actually paid in, the total amount of the alumni fund for the year is $150,105, as compared with $83,504 as returned by the last report of the university treasurer for the previous year. The total amount of the alumni fund to date as principal is $454,248. Of the classes contributing during the last year '85 and '85 S. are the leaders, with $52,000 as gifts. The amount given last year far exceeds that of any previous twelve months.

Dr. Ephraim Miller, professor of mathematics and astronomy in the University of Kansas, holds the record for the longest continuous service of any teacher in Kansas. He has taught every year for sixty-two years. He began teaching when fourteen years of age and by this means made his way through Alleghany College in Pennsylvania. He has taught in Lawrence for forty years, having first held the position of supervisor of city schools, and then, four years later, being elected to the chair of mathematics in the university. Nineteen years ago the chair of astronomy was established and Professor Miller began his work of interesting Kansas youths in the heavenly bodies.

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HERE were in 1909-10, 58,342 students in attendance at the German universities, 93.5 per cent of these being men and 6.5 per cent women. The matriculated students constituted 90.8 per cent of the grand total and auditors 9.2 per cent. Of the matriculated students 96.5 per cent were men and only 3.5 per cent women, there being practically no women enrolled in theology and only a few in law, the great majority being found in philosophy. Of the auditors, on the other hand, no less than 36.3 per cent were women-Göttingen, Greifswald, Königsberg, Marburg, Rostock, Strassburg and Würzburg all having more female than male auditors. Almost onehalf (49.4 per cent) of the matriculated. students are enrolled in the faculty of philosophy, law coming next with 21.9 per cent, then medicine with 21.1 per cent, and finally theology with 7.6 per cent.

In point of total attendance (matriculated students and auditors) the German institutions rank as follows: (1) Berlin, (2) München, (3) Leipzig, (4) Bonn, (5) Breslau, (6) Halle, (7) Göttingen, (8) Freiburg, (9) Strassburg, (10) Heidelberg, (11) Münster, (12) Marburg, (13) Tübingen, (14) Kiel, (15) Jena, (16) Königsberg, (17) Würzburg, (18) Giessen, (19) Erlanger, (20) Greifswald, and (21) Rostock. It should be remembered that the summer semester (1909) is not included in the figures, and also that several institutions, notably those located in the pleasantly situated smaller towns, have a larger attendance in the summer than in the winter. If the matriculated students only are considered, Halle would change

places with Breslau, and Würzburg with Königsberg. The University of Tübingen leads in the number of theological students with Bonn, Berlin, Breslau and Leipzig following in the order named. In law the order is Berlin, München, Leipzig, Bonn and Breslau; in medicine München, Berlin, Leipzig, Freiburg and Würzburg, and in philosophy, Berlin München, Leipzig, Bonn and Göttingen. Berlin attracts the most matriculated women, followed by München, Göttingen, Heidelberg and Bonn, whereas in the total number of female students, including auditors, Berlin is followed by München, Breslau, Bonn and Göttingen. The largest numbers of auditors are found at Berlin, Leipzig, München, Breslau and Bonn, in the order named.

Vienna is by far the largest of the Austrian universities, being surpassed in point of attendance only by Berlin among the German institutions, while the largest Swiss institution is the University of Bern, this being followed by Geneve, Zürich, Lausanne, Basel, Freiburg and Neuchatel. The universities. of Czernowitz and Freiburg (Switzerland) have no medical faculties. The percentage of matriculated women students at the Swiss universities (22.3 per cent) is much higher than that (3.5 per cent) at the German institutions, while with the exception of Bern and Zürich the Swiss universities all attract more female than male auditors.

If we compare the attendance at the German universities during the winter semester of 1909-10 with that of 1893-94, we shall find that the number of matriculated students has more than doubled during this period, the gain being one of 113 per cent, i. e., from 27,424 to 58,

342. There were almost as many students enrolled in the faculty of philosophy alone this year as there were in all four faculties sixteen years ago, and almost as many students of medicine in 1893-94 as there were philosophy in that year. The number of law students was exceeded by that of medical students sixteen years ago, whereas today the condition is reversed. The number of students of theology has shrunk from 4,587 to 4,048 during the period under consideration, or from 16.7 per cent to 7.6 per cent of the total number of matriculated students enrolled. The number of law students has increased from 7,024 to 11,585, but the percentage has dropped from 25.6 per cent to 21.9 per cent, while in the case of the students of medicine there has been an actual increase from 7,856 to 11,187 accompanied by a decrease in percentage from 28.7 per cent to 21.1 per cent. The number of students under the faculty of philosophy has more than tripled during the sixteenyear period under review, the percentage increase being one from 29 per cent to 49.4 per cent. There may be some discrepancies in the classification of stu

dents of veterinary, medicine, pharmacy, dentistry and the like, as between 189394 and 1909-10, but they are not likely to be of sufficient moment to affect the general situation.

There has also been a marked change in the relative position of the various German universities since 1893-94. Leaving auditors out of consideration,

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the institutions in the year mentioned ranked as follows from the standpoint of attendance: (1) Berlin, (2) München, (3) Leipzig, (4) Halle, (5) Würzburg, (6) Bonn, (7) Breslau, (8) Tübingen, (9) Erlangen, (10) Freiburg, (11) Heidelberg, (12) Strassburg, (13) Marburg, (14) Göttingen, (15) Griefswald, (16) Königsberg, (17) Jena, (18) Giessen, (19) Kiel, (20) Rostock and (21) Münster, the last mentioned institution possessing no law and medical schools in 1894. The only university that shows a decrease in the attendance of matriculated students this year as against 1894 is Würzburg, and there the loss is very slight, from 1,442 to 1,424. he largest gains in actual number of students have been made by Berlin, München, Bonn, Leipzig, Münster and Göttingen, in the order named, while the largest relative (percentage) increases have been registered by Münster, Kiel, Göttingen, Bonn, Giessen, Jena and Marburg. It is interesting to note that there are three large cities in the first group and not one in the second, so that we may say, speaking broadly, that the institutions located

in the smaller cities have experienced a greater relative gain than those in the large cities, while, on the other hand, the universities of Berlin, München and Leipzig alone have to their credit 37 per cent of the gain in actual number of matriculated students at all of the institutions together since 1894.

AMES L. HUGHES, inspector Toronto schools, says: The time is not far distant when books will be abolished from the schools altogether, and in their place will arise an individual course of study suited to each child. It is wrong to teach each child the same thing. Not one in ten thousand is constructed alike. Each one has it in him to make good in one certain line of life work and no other. I can take a child and give him a manual training

course without one study out of the regular school course and yet develop him into a brighter man with a more active and probing brain than I could by sending him through the eight years' academic course. Why? Simply because a child's brain develops when he focuses it upon something that needs probingthat will make the brain active. Schoolbook learning does not do that for the child. Manual training does.

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WO organizations in this country are trying to prove that the future of the American drama lies in the universities. They are the dramatic clubs at Harvard and at Columbia, which undertake to present works by graduates. The Harvard Dramatic Club was formed in order that the best plays written by students in the course in playwriting conducted by Prof. George P. Baker might be produced as a reward for good work and in order to teach the authors something of stage management. At Columbia the process is reversed. There the Graduate Dramatic Club was formed by a group of recent alumni of Barnard and Columbia colleges in the hope that a course in playwriting might be established at the university if the proper incentive were provided in the way of bringing plays before the public.

At Harvard in 1905 Prof. Baker opened a course in the technique of the drama which included besides lectures the writing of three plays by each member of the class-an adaptation in one act, an original play in one act and a play at least three acts long. The course is open only to those graduates who have submitted a satisfactory one act play before registering.

In the spring of 1909 the Harvard Dramatic Club was formed. It is made up of graduates and undergraduates both of Radcliffe and of Harvard. Its first venture was to give "The Promised Land," by A. Davis, '07. Though a difficult undertaking its success warranted the production of four one act plays in the following spring. Two of these, "Fire in the Morning" and

"Horse Thieves," were by H. Hagedorn, '07; the other two were "Death and the Dicers" by F. Schenck, '09, and "The Heart of the Irishman," by L. Hatch, '05.

At the suggestion of the graduate advisory committee, consisting of Winthrop Ames, '95, director of the New Theater; H. T. Parker, dramatic critic of the Boston Transcript, and Prof. Baker, the club next gave "The Scarecrow," a play by Percy Mackaye, which will be produced in New York in the coming season with Edgar Selwyn in the leading part. It is acknowledged that its success at Cambridge led to its professional production.

From a collection of about thirty plays the committee this spring chose four one act plays, "The Better Way," an adaptation from the Spanish of Alarcon by Paul Mariett, '11; "Marvellous Bentham," by Hermann Hagedorn, '07; "The New Age," by David Carle, '09, and "The Higher Good," by T. H. Guild.

To add to the interest in this work John Craig, a Boston stage manager, has offered a prize in dramatic composition of $250 and a promise to produce the successful play for one week in the regular season. Moreover, if in his opinion the play is sufficiently successful to justify a longer performance Mr. Craig will pay every week after the first a royalty of three per cent on gross receipts.

Besides this the MacDowell Club of New York has offered a fellowship in dramatic composition with a stipend of $600 to the author of a producible three act play who wishes to continue work in dramatic composition at Harvard.

The newly formed dramatic club of