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...69th annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the national science societies affiliated with it, will convene in New York City in the last week of December. Columbia University, New York University, the City College, and the American Museum of natural history will have general charge of the convention, at which an attendance of more than 2,000 is expected. Dr. Charles R. Van Wise, president of the University of Wisconsin, will preside...
...General Education Board and the Rockefeller Foundation announced Friday an appropriation of $2,000,000 to be added to other property valued at $9,000,000 for the endowment of a medical school in connection wit Chicago University. This endowment, which is larger than that of any medical school in the United States, will make the new medical department the greatest school for the education of specialists in this country. The purpose of the new school is to make it unnecessary for advanced students, or physicians seeking special training, to study abroad. To this end, it is planned to have...
...workout in the Stadium, running through signals and lining up in two teams for a few minutes' hard work. Flower and Bond were in the backfield of team B, with S. Burnham '19, and did some good work on the offence in a short practice against team C. The general tone of the day's work was light and quiet, with the men of letting the men start the week's work gradually in preparation for the hard game Brown is expected to give the university this week, when the Brunonians come to Cambridge flushed with their...
...first session of the National Academy of Science will be held in the new Massachusetts Institute of Technology this afternoon and evening. At the evening session in the General Library, President and Mrs. Lowell, and President and Mrs. Maclaurin of Technology, will hold a reception from 9.15 to 10.30 o'clock. The scientific sessions and the exhibit are open to the public...
This great growth came during the presidency of James Carnahan. Not only were the number of students increased under his regime but the number of professors and buildings grew, and the general policy was broadened. In the 31 years of his administration, 1,677 students were admitted to the first degree of arts, the annual average being 54. Of these 73 became presidents or professors in colleges or other seminaries of learning, eight became senators of the United States, 26 members of the House of Representatives, four members of the President's Cabinet; and a large number became eminent...