either correction by glasses or readjustment in class work. Most of these cases can be largely corrected by properly fitted glasses.

-Warning that numbers may endanger the efficiency of law education in this country is sounded by Harlan F. Stone, dean of the Columbia University Law School, in a recent report to President Nicholas Murray Butler. Dean Stone asserts that "about 700" is the maximum limit of the student capacity of a law school that does not sacrifice excellence to mere physical growth. Dean Stone favors an exacting examination system in the professional school as a duty to the public and to the courts. The law, says Dean Stone, is no place for a man of mediocre ability.

-The New National Catholic Service School for Women, which opened in Washington, D. C., last November, under the direction of Dr. Charles P. Neill and a distinguished faculty, is a unique institution. The standard of instruction and work is of graduate character, admitting only students who have completed a college course or have had its equivalent in study and actual experience and the institution aims to give a thorough going and adequate training to Catholic women in the field of social welfare. The three modern and splendidly equipped buildings of the new school are located on an attractive sight on Nineteenth street, N. W., in the heart of the nation's capitol.

-The International Health Board of the Rockefeller Foundation will coöperate with the Philippine government in the reorganization of the public health work in the islands, according to a recent announcement made by the foundation. Fellowships for advanced studies. in the United States will be offered, the announcement stated, and special attention given to training young women in public health nursing.

-Dr. Clarence E. Rainwater, formerly director of the Hamilton Park recreation center in Chicago and now connected with the sociological department of the University of Southern California, is the author of a unique and significant book recently published by the University of Chicago Press under the title of "The Play Movement in the United States." The book is the first attempt to give a complete and authentic report of this movement in the United States, including all phases of its development from sand gardens and model playgrounds, small parks and recreation centers, to civic art and welfare, neighborhood organization, and community service.

-Dr. David B. Corson, city superintendent of schools, Newark, N. J., is chairman of a committee recently appointed by the State Council of Education to coöperate with Rutgers College in outlining a course of study for high school teachers in preparation for the proposed teachers' college of the State University at New Brunswick.

-Dean A. S. Whitney of the School of Education of the University of Michigan is the newly elected president of the Michigan State Teachers' Association. The association has been reorganized upon the basis of six district associations, with boundaries so arranged that annual meetings, which will be held in each district, will be easily accessible to all members of the association. There will be a general association, controlled by a representative assembly, and a paid secretary for part or full time work as the case requires.

-Professor David Friday of the department of economics of the University of Michigan assumed his new duties on January 1 as president of the Michigan Agricultural College. Agricultural College. He is the author of a book published last year entitled "Profits, Wages and Prices," and has

written numerous articles along economic lines on taxation, income and capital accumulation, prices, and similar subjects.

COLLEGE NOTES -Contending that public interest in football "has tended to give excessive importance to college athletic contests,' and that "like many other questions touching the direction of undergraduate life, this is one that affects all American colleges," President A. Lawrence

Lowell of Harvard University, in his annual report to the overseers, made public recently, urges that "it would be well for faculties, administrators and governing bodies to consider afresh the proper place of public intercollegiate athletic contests in the scheme of education."

-A gymnasium costing $300,000 and a new dormitory of 100 rooms will be erected at Colgate University within a few months, according to plans recently determined upon by officers of the institution and members of the alumni.

-Four types of electric furnaces are being constructed for use during the second semester in the course in electric furnaces of the department of chemical engineering of the University of Wisconsin College of Engineering. All of them were designed in the department and constructed at the university largely by students.

-Eight fellowships for women will be awarded for study in 1922 by the American Association of University Women. Announcement of the condi

1 tions for this award, the thirtieth to be made by the association, was recently made at Columbia University by Margaret E. Maltby, associate professor of physics at Barnard College, Columbia, and chairman of the association's committee on fellowships. Thirteen thousand American women are members of the association which is working with

similar organizations in England, France, Spain, Italy and Scandinavia to encourage higher education for women and "lead ultimately to world peace through acquaintance."

-The Chinese language and civilization will be taught in night courses at Columbia University in the spring session beginning February 8 by Ma Soo, Chinese journalist and publicist. Reading, writing and speaking Chinese will be taught in a course on elementary Chinese. A general introduction to Chinese literature, art, culture and thought will be studied in a course on

the essentials of Chinese civilization for which a knowledge of the Chinese language is not necessary.

-Highest tribute was paid the late Henry Carter Adams, former professor of economics at the University of Michigan, at a special memorial meeting held in connection with the annual convention of the American Economic Association at Pittsburg. The entire session of Thursday, December 29, was given over to the memorial service. Professor Adams was one of the founders, and an early president of the association. Addresses were made by Professor Seligman of Columbia, Professor Ely of Wisconsin, and Professor Dixon of Princeton, as well as by Professors Sharfman, Friday, and Cooley, representing the University of Michigan.

-Gifts to Columbia University since 1890, a record in contributions to university education, have reached a total of $42,259,283.81, according to a recent announcement contained in a report of Treasurer Frederick A. Goetze. During the administration of Seth Low as president, covering 1890-1901, $5,459,902.82 was received. In 1901 Nicholas Murray Butler became president and during the succeeding nineteen years, to the end of 1920, contributions to the several corporations, included in the university,

reached $34,609,091.14. The year 19201921, said the announcement, brought $2,190,289.85.

-William K. Bixby of St. Louis has presented $250,000 to Washington University for the erection of a new art school building. The gift is outright, and has no other restriction than that the building shall be on the main campus of the university. It will be called the W. K. Bixby Art School Hall.

-Dr. Thomas M. Balliet, formerly dean of the School of Pedagogy of New York University, recently gave a series of six lectures on the supervision of instruction at Boston University School of Education.

-Professor John Carleton Jones has been made acting president of the Uni versity of Missouri, filling the place made vacant by the resignation of Dr. A. Ross Hill. Dr. Jones became assistant professor of Latin at Missouri in 1882, and has served there ever since.

-Dr. Harry A. Garfield, president of Williams College, has been named as one of the twenty representatives of colleges and universities in the country who have been added to the membership of the educational committee of the foundation of $1,000,000 which is being raised for the purpose of perpetuating the ideals of Woodrow Wilson, former president of the United States.

-Dr. Elmer Burritt Bryan has been installed as the tenth president of Ohio University. Governor Harry L. Davis presided and made an address, praising the work of the institution of higher learning. Dr. Edward S. Parsons, president of Marietta College, spoke as a representative of the endowed educational institutions of the state, and Dr. R. M. Hughes, president of Miami University, spoke for the state-supported institutions.

--When it seemed that Columbia University would be unable to obtain the

funds to take up its option on the Dyckman tract, the proposed site for a $3,000,000 stadium at 218th street and the Harlem Ship Canal, an anonymous donor notified President Nicholas Murray Butler that he would provide whatever was needed to make up the purchase price of $700,000. The option was to have expired at noon December 31. The Dyckman tract will now be called the Columbia stadium site, and as soon as funds are available a vast structure devoted to sports and athletics will be constructed. The plans for the development of this newly acquired tract as an athletic playground provides for a football stadium with a seating capacity of 56,000, costing $750,000; a baseball field with a capacity of 10,000, costing $125,000; and an athletic field with three tracks and a 220-yard straightaway with a capacity of 3,000 or 9,000, costing $450,000.

--At the concluding session of the eighth annual meeting of the Associa tion of American Colleges in Chicago, January 14, President Charles A. Richmond of Union College, Schenectady, was chosen president of the association to succeed Professor F. C. Ferry of Hamilton College, New York; and President Frank Aydelotte of Swathmore College, Pennsylvania, secretary-treas

urer.

-The salaries of presidents and faculty members in state colleges and universities have increased 50 per cent since the school year of 1913-14, declared John J. Tigert, U. S. Commissioner of Education, in an address at the recent eighth annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges held in Chicago.

-Jacob M. Dickinson, ex-secretary of war, has made to the University of Chicago libraries a large and valuable gift of books, many of them of special portance both to the faculty and

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graduate students. The books largely in the fields of political science, history, and general literature. Ex-secretary Dickinson, who has been counsel for the United States before the Alaskan boundary tribunal and president of the American Bar Association, was secretary of war in President Taft's cabinet from 1909 to 1911.

-At the recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Toronto, Canada, the University of Toronto conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Science upon Professor Eliakim Hastings Moore, head of the department of mathematics at the University of Chicago. Professor Moore, who is president of the American Association, has already received honorary

degrees from the University of Gottingen, the University of Wisconsin. and Yale and Clark universities.

-Dr. George Armstrong Wauchope, head of the department of English, of the University of South Carolina, has been selected as the exchange professor representing the university and will go to the University of Virginia in the near future to deliver a series of lectures.

-The motor vehicle department of the state of New Jersey recently announced that "true to the traditions of New Jersey, the state, in honor of Princeton University, has adopted the college colors of orange and black for 1923 registration plates." It is predicted that flivvers will always be able to make first downs on muddy fields.

Death of Thomas S. O'Brien Thomas S. O'Brien, principal of public school 24, one of Albany's leading educators who had been connected with the city's public school system for the past 40 years, died suddenly of heart disease at his home in North Albany, January 31. On the preceding day he was about his regular school duties and was preparing to celebrate his 50th wedding anniversary on Saturday, February 4.

Principal O'Brien was born in 1851 in Ireland, educated in the schools of Dublin, came to America as a young man and settled in Rensselaer, where he first ran a private school. He later moved to North Albany, taught in Menands and in 1881 was appointed principal in the Albany public schools and assigned to school 20. After serving there a number of years he was transferred to school 13, after which he was sent to school 5, where he spent many years of his life. When the Teachers'

Training School was instituted at school 24, Prof. O'Brien was made the principal. That school was later abolished, but Prof. O'Brien was retained as principal of the grammar department in the school in addition to being appointed secretary of the merit list committee.

Principal O'Brien was a man of sterling qualities, the possessor of a pleasing personality and splendid character, the head of a distinguished family and highly efficient in his teaching and professional services. He was active in every movement for the betterment of Albany and its public school system. He was held in the highest esteem by his fellow citizens, his associate teachers and principals and by the hundreds of pupils who were indebted to him for their early training.

Professor O'Brien is survived by his widow and four sons, Dr. Joseph P. O'Brien, the Rev. Dr. Vincent G. O'Brien, pastor of St. John the Baptist church, Schenectady; John F. O'Brien,

an Albany attorney; Thomas S. O'Brien, Jr., a civil engineer in the state highway department; two daughters, Mrs. Peter A. Delaney of New York; Mrs. Martin F. Lynch, Bay Side, L. I.; a grandson, Frank C. Delaney of New York; a great granddaughter, Patricia O'Brien, and several other grandchildren.

-Are school boards as yet financially independent is the question that the supreme court of the state will soon be obliged to settle. The recent decision by the Rochester board of estimate and apportionment to reduce the budget estimates of the board of education below the amount asked, $4,557,770, has raised the issue. A suit in the supreme court on behalf of the board of education to have its full budget allowed has resulted. The school board contends that school expenditures should be separated from general city expenditures on the ground that education is a state, not a municipal function, and that therefore the constitutional provision that restricts municipal tax levies to two per cent of the city's assessed valuation does not apply. The board of estimate's action was predicated on the belief that education is considered a municipal function and that since the constitutional limitation restricts this year's tax levy for all municipal purposes to about $7,000,000, other city functions would have to be unwarrantably curtailed if the full school budget asked were allowed.

-Head teachers in state prison schools recently held a two days' conference in the regents' room of the New York state education building in a movement to simplify the problem of educating the inmates. Dr. A. C. Hill of the education department, directed the meeting. Reports on school progress and conditions were made by Mrs. Helen P. Stone of the women's prison; Earl

P. Murray, Great Meadows prison; N. J. Henzel, Sing Sing; H. S. Shelton, Auburn prison, and John B. Brunson, Clinton prison. Dr. Hill, in opening the conference, said: "Schools in prisons are dealing with no ordinary educational problem. They are not directing the development of plastic minds but are trying to turn the mental activities of mature men and women into new channels. Their function is not to build but to rebuild. Their aim is reformation, not formation; readjustment rather than adjustment."

-After a rather embarrassing delay the State Board of Regents, at its regular meeting December 29, unanimously voted to issue to Dr. Adolf Lorenz, famous Austrian surgeon, a license permitting him to practice in New York state. Three weeks previous Dr. Lorenz stopped performing operations upon crippled children when the State Department of Education called his attention to the fact that he did not have a license. An attempt was made to obtain a temporary license through Dr. Augustus S. Downing, deputy commissioner of education, but he said he had no power and that under the law nothing could be done until the regular meeting of the Board of Regents. The Regents endorsed a license granted to Dr. Lorenz in the state of Illinois in 1902, which was accepted as valid in this state.