-Yale University has received gifts and pledges for the $2,000,000 additional endowment required to meet the terms of the conditional offer of $3,000,000 made at commencement in 1920 by "an anonymous friend of the university."

-October 18 was observed at Tufts College as marking the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of the birth of the Dr. Hosea Starr Ballou, first president of the college. His office in the building named in his honor, Ballou Hall, the first, and for some years the only building at Tufts, was open to visitors.

-The General Education Board has given Vassar $500,000 to increase the salaries of the faculty on condition that $1,500,000 more be raised within two years.

-Temple University, with its ten thousand students and $1,500,000 worth of property, has been offered to the Board of Public Education of Philadelphia as a gift for the establishment of a city college on the condition that the university shall be continued as a "halftime college for those who wish to work while they get a college education."

-The Chinese language will be taught at Harvard this year. Dr. Yuen Ren Chao, a native of Shanghai and a graduate of Cornell University, has been appointed to have charge of such a course for the second semester. Chinese was taught at Harvard forty years ago.

-Vassar College, which received a gift of $500,000 from the General Education Board, founded by John D. Rockefeller, has announced a gift of $100,000 by Edward S. Harkness of New York, also of the Standard Oil group. With this $600,000 on hand the Vassar College endowment fund began on October 12 its campaign for $3,000,000 to

-The air service of the war department has furnished each student of the school of aeronautics of Research University, Washington, D. C., with a very valuable set of books on aviation. Two hundred copies of six different volumes have been made available for the resident and correspondence students. Professor L. D. Seymour has secured also a number of very valuable volumes for reference work on aeronautics, for the university library.

-A movement for students in the universities of Europe to join the undergraduate bodies of America in a concerted effort to further the aims of the conference on the limitation of armaments in Washington was set on foot October 7 at State College, Pa., at a mass meeting attended by 1,200 students. The meeting adopted resolutions calling for a simultaneous pilgrimage of student delegations from every university and college in the United States to Washington with petitions urging the conference, in the name of the nation's young manhood, "to end wars.

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-Professor Charles A. Shull of the University of Kentucky has been appointed to an associate professorship in the department of botany at Chicago University.

-By the bequest of Frank Bigelow Tarbell, late professor of classical archaeology in the University of Chicago, the university has recently come into possession of interesting fragments of pottery and other objects of special archaeological value.

-A total enrollment of 5,936, breaking all previous records, has been reached at Harvard University according to official figures recently made public. Every department of the university except two show an increase over last year.

-The Research University of Wash

ington, D. C., is offering many helpful and attractive courses this fall for which there has been a general demand. Among these courses are home economics in high schools, social usage and etiquette, scenario writing, dressmaking and design, Americanization work, esthetic dancing, and Japanese and Chinese languages. Mr. Gongoro Nakamura has charge of the class in Japanese and Mr. S. T. Wang, son of Senator Wang of the Chinese Republic, of the course in Chinese, which is given free of charge.

-The Society for American Field Service Fellowships for French universities will offer for open competition among graduates of American colleges and other suitably qualified candidates a number of fellowships, not to exceed twenty-five, for the purpose of encouraging advanced study and research in French universities during 1922-23. Full information and application blanks may be obtained from the secretary, Dr. I. L. Kandel, 522 Fifth ave., New York City.

-Official announcement of the registration at the University of Chicago on October 10 gives the total as 5,799, a gain of 421 over the corresponding date a year ago. It is expected that the final registration will show more than 6,000 students in attendance for the autumn quarter. The total number of graduate students in all departments is 1,304; of undergraduates 4,495.

-Registrar Edward J. Grant of Columbia University announced on October 9 that the total enrollment was 22,953, this figure being exclusive of both the home study division and the spring session enrollment, which are expected to swell the aggregate beyond 31,000, last year's mark. In point of number Columbia University holds first place among the large universities of the nation.

-President James R. Angell of Yale University received the degree of Doctor of Laws from McGill University at the special convocation held in Montreal October 13 in connection with the centennial celebration of the founding of the university. Among the others who received this degree are Lord Byng, Governor General of Canada, and President John Grier Hibben of Princeton University.

-The National Academy of Science, one of the most important scientific societies in the country, will hold its fall meeting this year November 14-15 at the University of Chicago. The spring meeting of the academy is always held in Washington, D. C.

-Professor M. J. Cavalier, rector of Toulouse University and a widely known authority on metallurgical chemistry, spent the month of October at Columbia University as French exchange professor. He comes to America as the result of arrangements for an annual exchange of professors of engineering and applied science between French and American universities. Professor Cavalier will divide his time among Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania.

-Dr. John Lee Coulter, a native of Minnesota and a graduate of the universities of North Dakota and Wisconsin, has been elected president of the North Dakota Agricultural College, succeeding Dr. E. F. Ladd, who was elected to the United States senate last March.

-The installation of Dr. John M. Thomas as president of the Pennsylvania State College took place on October 14. Important educational and industrial conferences preceded the inauguration and it was followed by the annual alumni homecoming. Delegates from about two hundred colleges and

Governor William C. Sproul and Dr. Thomas E. Finegan, Pennsylvania superintendent of public instruction, were among the speakers.

-A bequest of $2,000,000 to Harvard University, the income to be devoted to the investigation of the origin and cure of cancer, is contained in the will of the late Hiram F. Mills of Hingham, Mass. Other public bequests include $10,000 each to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Mr. Mills, a noted hydraulic engineer, spent a large part of his life developing the water power of the Merrimac river, especially at Lawrence and Lowell. He was graduated from the R. P. I. in 1856, and was the last survivor of that class.

-Dr. Albert William Smith, acting president of Cornell University during the interval between the resignation of Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman and the installation of Dr. Farrand, has retired. For many years he was dean of the Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering. Professor Dexter S. Kimball succeeded Dean Smith and is now in charge of the former College of Civil Engineering, which this year has been combined with Sibley into the one College of Engineering at Cornell University.

-Since tuition rates in American colleges have been found to be much less than the cost of providing that tuition, the Institute for Public Service sug

gests that the student pay in full for his education, even if he has to give promissory notes to be paid off after he becomes an earner. The institute finds that while full professorships at Yale and the University of Michigan may now get $10,000 and at Columbia and Harvard, $8,000, there are at least eighteen colleges paying full professorships less than $2,000 a year. At least 140 colleges pay not more than $3,000 for full professorships. And this despite the increases in pay and tuition rates since 1914. Increases in tuition fees vary from one dollar to $150. Commenting on the situation The Nation recently asked what excuse there is for charging a rich man's son half of what he ought to pay and then paying a professor half of what he ought to get.

-The entire student bodies of Bucknell University and Williams College recently offered to place their services at the disposal of the railroads of the country in case of a general strike by railroad workers, which was threatened on November 1.

-Fifteen students at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., were recently expelled for hazing as an outgrowth of a freshman-sophomore fight.

-Dr. J. W. Richards, professor of metallurgy at Lehigh University and one of the foremost chemical engineers in this country, died suddenly of heart disease at his home in Bethlehem, Pa., on October 12.

be disposed of under directions of the legislature. Of the 5,000 sets which have been printed 2,000 will go to members of the legislature for free distribution. Most of the remaining sets will be distributed to the school, college and public libraries of the state. A limited num

ber will be sold to individual purchasers at $2.50 for the set of two volumes.

-Royal B. Farnum, former state specialist in drawing and last year president of Mechanics Institute of Rochester, is now principal of the Massachusetts State Normal School.

-Dr. Livingston Farrand, recently head of Colorado University and for two years chairman of the central committee of the American Red Cross, was inaugurated president of Cornell University, October 20. A notable group of the most prominent men in the fields of American education, jurisprudence, finance, commerce, politics and art, participated in the ceremonies. In addition to the inaugural address of Dr. Farrand, addresses were made by Chief Justice Frank H. Hiscock of the court of appeals and chairman of the board of trustees and by Governor Nathan L. Miller. Cornell University alumni returned in large numbers to attend the inauguration and to celebrate the semi-centennial anniversary of the College of Agricul

ture. At the alumni luncheon on Saturday the Cornellians greeted the new president and Mrs. Farrand. The other chief attraction of the day was a football game between Cornell and Colgate.

-Regent Walter Guest Kellogg and Dr. John M. Clarke, director of the State Museum, represented the State Board of Regents at the inauguration of Dr. Livingston Farrand as president of Cornell University on October 20.

-A verdict of $25,000 has been awarded Miss Louise E. Hamburger of Brooklyn by a supreme court jury in a negligence action against Cornell University for the loss of her left eye following an explosion in the chemical laboratory of the university during an experiment she was performing in 1916. The case is said to establish a precedent in New York state and may have a farreaching effect in similar cases on edu

cational institutions. Counsel for the university has announced that an appeal will be taken to the highest courts.

"Christmas seal your Christmas mail!" This is the slogan of the 14th annual sale of Christmas seals which will take place December 1-31 throughout the United States. The committee on tuberculosis and public health of the State Charities Aid Association, as the representative of the National Tuberculosis Association, will organize and give leadership to the sale throughout New York state, outside of New York City. The goal for this year's sale is $586,000. In 1920 approximately $400,000 was raised, and in 1919, $375,000.

-The New York State Council of School Superintendents held its 39th annual meeting in Albany, October 18-21. A unique feature of this year's program was a roll call on the topic "Forward Steps Taken by the Schools I Represent During the Past Year," to which the village and city superintendents in at

tendance responded. The mutual exchange of experience proved highly suggestive and helpful. At the Tuesday evening session Dr. Frank P. Graves, state commissioner of education, made his initial address before this body. The principal speakers at the Wednesday evening session, held in the auditorium of the State Education building, were Dr. George M. Wiley, Assistant Commissioner of Elementary Education, who spoke on "Professional Training as a Basis for a State. Program of Teacher Certification," and Dr. L. Emmett Holt of New York City, who spoke on "Health Education."

-The registration this year in the state normal schools and the State College for Teachers shows a very marked increase over the registration of a year ago. In the ten state normal schools the September enrollment was 3,247, an

increase of 42 per cent over 1920 and approximately 67 per cent over the total enrollment in September, 1919. The registration at the State College this year is approximately 700. The entering class numbers 250, and is one of the largest in the history of the college.

Albany County

-Miss Kate J. Martin, vice-principal and instructor in mathematics in the Cohoes high school, and for forty-five years a teacher in Cohoes public schools, died October 3 in her home in Waterford, after a brief illness. She was born in Waterford and lived there all her life. She taught more than twenty years in the grade schools, after which she was promoted to the high school, where she recently completed twenty-five years of service. As a token of respect the high school was closed during her funeral.

-An open air school at the tuberculosis pavilion on Western Avenue, Albany, was opened October 10, in charge of Miss Anna E. Maguire, formerly of school 8. About 20 children, up to 16 years of age, are being instructed. Owing to the number of children under treatment at the pavilion, it was found necessary to establish a regular school there, since the inmates are Albany children for whom the city must furnish education. A special one room building is being used and the school will be conducted on the same open air plan as in schools 14 and 6.

-School 23, the latest addition to Albany's public schools, was formally opened with appropriate ceremonies on the evening of November 1. The new school is located on the Whitehall Road in the Delaware Avenue section of

the city. Howe Cassavant, principal of the school, presided at the exercises, which were largely attended. A program of music was presented and addresses were made by Eugene B. Sanford, pres dent of the board of education, and Dr. C. Edward Jones, superintendent of schools. Four silk American flags were presented to the school by the Lew Benedict Post 44, Women's Relief Corps. The assembly room was gaily decorated with flags for the occasion. Refreshments were served and the entire building was thrown open for inspection. In his address Dr. Jones stated that there is need for three additional schools, one in the North Albany section, one in the Schenectady road section and one in Western Avenue. After the

erection of these schools his next hope for the educational system of Albany, he said, was for an enlarged music department and a downtown high school.

Cattaraugus County

-Thirty pupils are registered in a new open air school constructed by the Olean Anti-Tuberculosis Association. The school is adjacent to the city high school. The association provides the quarters and the city the teacher, Miss Jessie Wellover, who has had several years' experience in this kind of work in the state of Montana.

Dutchess County

-A plaque of Dante, by Prof. F. E. Triebel, said to be one of the last American sculptors to possess the award of merit of the Roman Academy, was presented to the Poughkeepsie high school by leading Italians of that city on Columbus Day.

A joint conference for all the teachers of Dutchess county, including the four supervisory districts and the city of Poughkeepsie, will be held in Poughkeepsie November 10-11. The meeting will be in charge of Superintendent Ward C. Moon, of the Poughkeepsie schools, and of the four district superintendents, Frank L. Haight of Fishkill, Clayton F. Sherman of Poughkeepsie, Mrs. Maude S. Rundall of Amenia and Frank O. Green of Tivoli.

Greater New York

-Every child who enters Public School 64, on New York's east side, is tested physically and psychologically, and assigned to one of eight types of classes that have been formed in the school. Children especially gifted are enabled to complete the eight-year course in six years. Special attention is also given to the mentally backward.

-A pageant, "America in the Making,'' was a feature of the opening of a new public school in Coney Island on October 2. Former Governor Alfred E. Smith acted as the presiding officer and many city officials were present. The new school is the fourth largest in greater New York, and nearly all of its more than 4,000 pupils come from homes of foreignborn parents.

-The officers of the New York City Principals Association for the year 1921-22 are as follows: President, William Rabenort, of P.