included agricultural education, commercial education, industrial education, part-time education, teacher training, homemaking and industrial rehabilitation. A copy of the final program, which will be ready for distribution about December 15, may be secured by writing the office of the National Society for Vocational Education, 140 West 42d street, New York City.

-The "school population" of the United States, as announced by the the census bureau, is 33,250,870. Of this number, comprising citizens five to 20 years old, more than 21,370,000 were attending school between September, 1919, and January, 1920, when the census was taken. Utah apparently is the most studious state, 73 per cent of her citizens eligible by age being registered in schools. Massachusetts leads in the seven to 13 year group with 96.1 per cent and Louisiana comes last with 75.9 per cent.

-All pupils of the eighth to twelfth grades in the schools of Illinois are invited to enter a gold medal prize competition for the best essay on "Pioneer Women of Illinois. The prize is given by the state of Illinois and the Daughters of the American Revolution. The State Historical Society and the superintendent of public instruction are in charge of the competition. The contest will close May 1, 1922. Definite information and the rules for the contest will be furnished by the state committee upon application to Mrs. Jessie Palmer Weber, secretary, Illinois State Historical Society, Springfield.

-The National Association of Credit Men and the District Association of Credit Men have made arrangements with the Research University, Washington, D. C., to incorporate in the university curriculum their national course of study. John E. Moore, director of the Washington Association of Credit Men

and treasurer of Muth and Company, will be dean of the new school, which will have for its special purpose the training of credit and collection men for business firms. The course of study is six months in length. The new school will open December 12.

-Dr. Robert R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee Institute and successor to Booker T. Washington, recently completed his good will tour of Mississippi and spoke at more than a score of meetings on what the white and colored people of Mississippi can do in promoting sympathetic, helpful co-operation and education of all the citizens of that state. The tour was made on the invitation of leading colored citizens and with the co-operation of leading white citizens, including Governor Russell and other liberally-minded men and women who are interested in cementing better inter-racial understanding and greater inter-racial co-operation.

-More than 200 pupils with various defects were enrolled in speech correction classes in Omaha, Nebr., during the last year, and many of them were cured, according to the United States Department of Education. Seventeen classes were formed, meeting in the schools and at the headquarters of the board of education. In these classes were 27 children who stuttered and 129 with phonetic defects; some children had from 6 to 10 defects.

-Payson E. Smith, commissioner of education for Massachusetts, made the principal address at address at the Berkshire county teachers' convention held in Pittsfield November 4. Among other things Commissioner Smith said: "The young man who takes with him into his work a body of information which would. enable him to answer all questions proposed by Mr. Edison has certainly an asset of great value. Of still greater value, however, are the assets which the

young man may have in certain habits of persistence, self-control, concentration and the like. In the early years of the child's life educational processes, besides aiming to give him something of a mastery of the tools by which he is to gain his later education, should aim to assure for him, to the utmost extent possible, that group of habits which may be the most valuable attributes he can carry into his life work."

-School Review is the title of a welledited publication authorized by the Denver board of education and published five times during the school year with the purpose of giving the utmost publicity to the business and conduct of the schools of that city. This method of keeping the taxpayers and patrons fully informed regarding the work and needs of the schools is highly commendable and should prove a worthy example for other cities to follow.

-Lady Griffith-Boscawen of Bristol, England, has launched a campaign to require all teachers to take the oath of allegiance. She declares hundreds of disloyal teachers are imparting communist ideas to British children.

and also reviewed the Reserve Officers' Training Unit, made up of students of the institution, who acted as his guard of honor.

-Dr. G. Harvey Reavis, assistant state superintendent of Maryland, has been appointed dean of the School of Education of the University of Pittsburg at a salary of $8,000. Radical changes in the plans for the work in teacher training are to be made.

-Henry Allen Peck, vice-chancellor of Syracuse University, died of heart disease on the morning of November 18, at Syracuse, after an illness of only a few days. Vice-chancellor Peck was born in 1863 in Mexico, Oswego county, N. Y., and completed his education at Syracuse University, to which institution he returned six years later to become professor of astronomy. He was dean of the College of Liberal Arts for several years before becoming vicechancellor last summer.

-The faculty of the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania has voted to abandon the midyear and final examinations. Through daily recitations and class marks the student's work and progress is carefully noted. The time heretofore given to examinations will be devoted to additional class discussions and lectures.

-A special convocation took place at the University of Chicago November 5 in honor of Marshal Foch of France, commander-in-chief of the allied armies in the World War. Other recent guests of the university have been General Nivelle, the defender of Verdun, and Ex-Premier Viviani and Marshal Joffre. The latter two visited the university as members of the French Mission to the United States.

-President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University, has been elected president of the League to Enforce

Peace, to succeed Chief Justice William Howard Taft.

-The installation of Dr. David Kinley as president of the University of Illinois, took place December 1. The installation exercises occurred at the first main session of the educational conference held at the university December 1 and 2. The general topic for the conference was "The Relation of the Federal Government to Education." Dr. Kinley spoke on the "Relation of State and Nation in Educational Policy."

--Assistant Professor Frank E. Robbins, who has taught Greek in the University of Michigan since 1912, has been appointed assistant to President Lotus D. Coffman of the University of Minnesota.

-The total enrollment of 610 students in the classes of the German department of the University of Wisconsin this semester is an increase of about 27 per cent over the registrations at this time last year, when there were 478 students in the German courses.

-The colleges and universities with which Research University of Washington, D. C., has entered into actual accrediting relations has risen to fifty. Replies are still coming in and it is expected that the university will be on mutal accrediting relations with most universities this year. A large percentage of the accrediting colleges and universities are in the list of accredited higher institutions of learning published by the American Council of Education.

-At the National Academy of Sciences meeting in Chicago, November 1415, Professor Albert A. Michelson, head of the department of physics, gave an interesting lecture on "Progress in the Application of Interference Methods at Mount Wilson." The lecture included special reference to the measurement of the diameters of stars.

JULIAN A. C. CHANDLER, PH.D. -Answering the call of his alma mater, Dr. J. A. C. Chandler, until recently superintendent of the city schools of Richmond, Virginia, is now president of the College of William and Mary, having been inducted into office on October 19 with ceremonies made memorable by an address by President Warren G. Harding. William and Mary is the alma mater of three Presidents of the United States. Dr. Chandler is a native of Virginia and is one of the younger educational leaders of the South. He is only 39 years of age. Before becoming superintendent of the Richmond schools in 1909 he served as dean of the faculty at the Women's College, Richmond, and as professor of history and literature at Richmond College. At the exercises attending his inauguration an honorary degree was conferred upon President Harding.

-Professor Joel Stebbins, now professor of astronomy at the University of Illinois, has been appointed director of the Washburn observatory and professor of astronomy at the University of Wisconsin, beginning July 1, 1922, to

succeeed Prof. George C. Comstock, who has been director of the observatory since 1889 and has reached the age of retirement. Professor Comstock will carry on his work as director of the observatory during the present academic year. Dr. Stebbins will act as non-resident professor of astronomy during the present year and assist in refitting the observatory apparatus.

-Dr. John Sundwall has been appointed associate director of the new department of hygiene, public health, and physical education at the University of Michigan. For the last three years Dr. Sundwall has been head of the health and welfare service department at the University of Minnesota and was previously connected with the University of Kansas and the United States Public Health Service.

-Shailer Mathews and Gerald Birney Smith, of the University of Chicago Divinity School, are the editors of a monumental work entitled "A Dictionary of Religion and Ethics," which has recently been published. They were assisted in their work by over one hundred prominent scholars. The volume sets forth in compact form the results of modern study in the psychology of religion, the history of religions, the present status of religious life in America, Europe, and the most important mission fields, and the important phases of Christian belief and practice. It also covers both social and individual ethics.

-Marshall Ferdinand Foch received the honorary degree of LL. D. at Yale University November 12 at a special convocation, the third of its kind in the last quarter of a century. In 1902 the university honored with its highest degree Lord Kelvin, who was at the time the most eminent scientist of the English-speaking world. Two years ago a special convocation was held in honor

of Cardinal Mercier, on whom the degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred. In the afternoon Marshall Foch witnessed the Yale-Princeton football game and was received with tumultuous applause by the immense throng in attendance when he arrived and walked across the bowl prior to the game.

-In ten years, while Wisconsin's population has grown only 121⁄2 per cent, the enrollment in her high schools has doubled. Furthermore, statistics show that almost one-half of the graduates of Wisconsin high schools now go to university, college or normal school.

-Professor J. A. Stoddard, who has served two years as high school inspector and seven years as assistant state superintendent of education in South Carolina, has accepted the chair of secondary education at the University of South Carolina. He is devoting his entire time to the duties of the position and offers several practical courses both for undergraduates and graduates.

-Princeton University is to replace the Marquand chapel, destroyed by fire two years ago, with a chapel that will approach the dimensions of a small cathedral. It will be one of the largest edifices of its kind in the world devoted to the use of a college and it is expected that the cost will be much more than $1,000,000. .

-Dr. Lorant Hegedus, who as Minister of Finance has had charge of the program of financial reconstruction in the Hungarian Parliament, will deliver a series of lectures at Columbia University during the present academic year. Dr. Hegedus, formerly a professor in the University of Budapest, visited America. 27 years ago.

-R. B. Von Klein Smid, president of the State University of Arizona, succeeds President Bovard of the University of Southern California. Dr. Van Klein Smid is one of the brilliant men

in university service, and the University of Southern California offers him great opportunity for educational leadership.

-Dr. Charles Franklin Thwing retired November 11 from the presidency of the Western Reserve University, after having been head of the institution for 31 years. He presented his resignation last June. Dr. Thwing recently celebrated his 68th birthday. A purse of $10,000 was presented to him by the trustees and alumni as a token of gratitude and appreciation for his 31 years of service to the institution. Dr. James D. Williamson, vice-president of Adelbert College and a trustee of Western Reserve University, was designated temporary president pending appointment of Dr. Thwing's successor.

-Dean F. J. E. Woodbridge of the faculties of political science, philosophy and pure science, Dean Herbert E. Hawkes of Columbia College, Prof. William H. Carpenter, provost and acting librarian, and Prof. Ashley H. Thorndike of the department of English, represented Columbia University at the meeting of the Association of American Universities held at the University of Missouri November 4-5.

-A cablegram from Rome, Italy, November 25, announced the death of Professor Tracy Peck, professor emeritus of the Latin language and literature at Yale University.

-The annual conference of student volunteer groups of forty eastern colleges was held in Princeton December 2-4. The meeting this year was given over to discussion of the phases of foreign missionary work carried on by the colleges and universities of the east, and laying plans for activities of the coming year.

-A recent report of the campaign fund committee which is raising an endowment of $3,000,000 for Union Col

lege, Schenectady, N. Y., shows $524,000 has been pledged. Reports have not been received from two-thirds of the alumni. Pledges of 711 alumni amount to $261,378; pledges of friends of the college, $12,625; gift offered by the Carnegie corporation, $75,000; gift offered by the

general education board, $175,000. The gifts of the Carnegie corporation and general education board are contingent on the college raising $500,000, more than one-half of which has been pledged.

-Charles Denison Daniel, A. M., educational specialist of the army and former dean of the Tennessee Polytechnic Institute, has been appointed professor of English at Research University, Washington, D. C., according to a recent announcement of President Rapeer. Professor Daniel is a specialist on the teaching of English and has charge of the work of constructing courses in English for the educational division of the army.

the upper elementary grades, have been called back into the schools for a few hours each week. The law affects cities of 5,000 or more inhabitants.

-Dr. Earl W. Fuller, senior assistant physician at the Rome State school, and a graduate of the Albany Medical College, has accepted a position as psy