task a natural appreciation and kinship .with the older poet that bids fair to make the completed work one of the outstanding events of the present century in literary circles. The Cornhill Publishing Company of Boston will be. the publishers.

-The Universal Film Manufacturing Company of New York city is publishing many moving picture serials of unusual interest and educational value, such as "Winners of the West," and "With Stanley in Africa," "In the Days of Buffalo Bill," and other semihistorical serials are now in preparation. "With Stanley in Africa" is a chapter-play in 18 episodes, built around the rescue of David Livingston in 1871 by Henry M. Stanley. It gives a visual representation of what actually happened in the famous expedition, intermingled with a dramatic story which. might very well have happened and in which subordinates in the expedition play their respective parts. This company deserves no little credit for producing films of this character that are not alone interesting and entertaining but are mentally stimulating and have real educational value.

--The newest Year Book, one long needed, is now in preparation. Dr. Wallace W. Atwood, President of Clark University, and co-author with Alexis Everett Frye of the Frye-Atwood Geographical Series (Ginn), has the work in hand for an American Geographical Year Book to contain up-to-the-minute information on the geography of the Western Hemisphere. Its speedy publication is to be hoped for, since the Year Book will prove of large value to all educators and to the public generally.

-An interchange of professors and students between the United States and the republics of Central and South ...America is recommended in the recent annual report of Dr. Francisco J. Yanes,

Assistant Director of the Pan American Union, who has charge of the section of education.

-The unveiling of the Booker T. Washington monument will be the special feature of the Founder's Day exercises to be held at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, on April 4. The monument which is the work of the famous sculptor, Charles Keck of New York, is a representation in bronze, standing eight feet high, of Booker T. Washington, "lifting the veil" of ignorance and superstition from the eyes of the Negro and pointing the way to opportunity, prosperity and success through education, industry and thrift. The funds for the purchase of the monument were contributed entirely by negroes. The Founder's Day address will be delivered by Dr. Wallace Butterick, chairman of the General Education Board; Honorable Josephus Daniels, ex-Secretary of the Navy, will represent the South; Dr. George C. Hall, one of the leading citizens of Chicago, will represent the Negro, and Dr. Emmett J. Scott, Secretary-Treasurer, Howard University, who was for eighteen years Secretary to Dr. Washington, will formally present the monument to the trustees of the Institute.

--Free dental clinics are now being conducted in 14 out of 21 Wisconsin cities of the first, second, and third classes, as compared with only six cities in 1916

-Miss Emma M. Brown, director of standards and measurements, will be the first principal of the new Skinner Junior high school in Denver, which will be opened the first of September.

Miss Brown will bring to this new work a well-rounded educational experience as a teacher, principal and director.

---Superintendent Jesse H. Newlon of Denver has recently announced the

promotion of Rufus H. Palmer, principal of the Grant Junior high school, to the newely created position of director of elementary education.

Mr. Palmer is a graduate of Denver University, from which institution he received his master's degree in 1912. He has done graduate work at Chicago University, Colorado State Teachers College, and Columbia University.

COLLEGE NOTES

-Dr. Edgar Fahs Smith, president of the American Chemical Society, and formerly professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, delivered the Chandler lecture on March 2 at Columbia University before a distinguished gathering of American chemists. Dr. Smith's subject was "Samuel Latham Mitchell,-A Father in American Chemistry." Samuel Latham Mitchell was the first professor of chemistry at Columbia College.

--Professor H. A. Brouwer, of the geology department of the University of Delft, Holland, has arrived in Ann Arbor, and will soon assume his duties as professor of geology in the University of Michigan, in exchange for Professor William H. Hobbs of the latter institution, who has been cruising in the South Seas during the past year, and who will spend the coming semester teaching in the University of Delft.

-Plans for its Summer Session of 1922, which will open Monday, July 10, and continue until Friday, August 18, were recently announced at Columbia University. Preparations are being made to handle at Morningside a student body exceeding that of last year, when a record total of over 12,000 was reached. Over 1,000 courses will be offered, and the curriculum will embrace

practically the entire range of elementary, intermediate and higher education. The faculty will consist of hundreds of men and women drawn from leading schools, colleges and technical institutions in almost every state.

A notable feature of the summer work will be advanced courses in law for members of the bar, teachers of the law and other advanced students of the law. The instructors will be Professor Roscoe Pound of Harvard, who in a course on sociological jurisprudence will Ideal with the problems of law reforms in America; Professor John Dewey, philosopher, teacher and author, who recently returned from China, will direct a course in problems in the logic and ethics of law. Professor W. W. Cook will be the third member of this special group of teachers. Sixteen other courses in law will be given.

-Fire completely destroyed Alumui Hall at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., February 18. Within an hour after the blaze was discovered the building was a mass of ruins. Students saved books, records and gymnasium equipment from the first floor and basement. The building was insured for $40,000.

-Psychological and selective admission tests, which were adopted at New York University three years ago for the College of Arts and Pure Science and College of Engineering, have proven so successful that they were extended last fall to the day admission of the School of Commerce.

These tests, according to the university authorities, have proven an almost infallible index of a student's ability to assimilate a college education. Applicants who fail in these tests are no longer admitted to the colleges of the university where such tests are required.

-Professor William A. Braun of the Department of Germanic Languages

and Literature in Barnard College, has been appointed by President Butler of Columbia University, American visiting professor at the University of Zurich for the winter semester of 1922-23. This, the first appointment of an American professor at a Swiss university, is taken to indicate that increasing number of foreign students seeking a German speaking university are turning to the German universities of Switzerland.

Professor Braun will remain at Barnard until June, and in October will begin his work at the Swiss university, where he will give a course of lectures in the German language on intellectual and social conditions in the United States.

—B. H. Hibbard of the department of agriculture, University of Wisconsin, recently went to Washington to spend a month on a study the Bureau of Markets is making of marketing statistics. The university has provided the gov ernment with a number of experts during the last five years.

-Dean W. L. Newsom, of the School of Accountancy of Research University, Washington, offers a new subject in advanced Accounting entitled "Public Accounting and Auditing." In this course, which begins March 6, he will give twelve lectures on theory and twelve C. P. A. tests to a group of not over thirty students who have had between one and two years of accounting or its equivalent. The course takes up partnership and corporation accounting and systemization and will deal with all of the important problems confronting practical accountants.

-Professor E. A. Gilmore, of the Wisconsin Law School, who has been appointed vice-governor general of the Philippine Islands, sailed for Manila February 20. The Regents of the university have granted him leave of absence from now through the next

academic year. As vice-governor, he will be subordinate only to General Leonard Wood, governor general. He will be secretary of the department of public instruction, including the bureaus of education and public health instruction.

-After twenty years of active and successful work, Myra B. Jordan, Dean of Women, University of Michigan, has handed in her resignation to the board of regents. She is planning to leave Ann Arbor the last of July with her husband, for a European tour, spendnext winter in Rome.

-Professor C. H. Van Tyne, of the University of Michigan, now on leave of absence in India to gather material for a book on the government and politics of that country, has arrived safely. and according to latest dispatches is receiving every manner of consideration at the hands of officials and leaders.

-More than 18,500 correspondence students studied through the University of Wisconsin Extension division during the year, 1920-21.

-For the education of mountain boys and girls the Lincoln Memorial University at Cumberland Gap, Tenn., is making a drive for $2,000,000.

The enlargement of the present plant is necessary, says Dr. George A. Hubbell, the president, in order that the university may develop along broader lines and take care of the increasing number of students.

--The Carnegie Foundation for the the Advancement of Teaching recently made public the sixteenth report of the president and treasurer for the year ending June 30, 1921. It showed that the foundation had distributed $8,920,661 in retiring allowances and pensions to 999 persons during the sixteen years. of its existence. Of this sum, $705,000 has been paid to former teachers of Iarvard, $609,000 to former teachers of Yale, $525,000 to former teachers of Co

lumbia University, and $407,000 to former teachers of Cornell. The remainder has gone to some 60 other institutions.

-Dr. Charles Wesley Flint, president of Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa, who was recently tendered the Chancellorship of Syracuse University, has notified the trustees of his acceptance, and is expected to assume his new duties about commencement time. Doctor Flint is 43 years old, has been president of Cornell College for six years and is a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal denomination. He was born in Canada, was graduated from the University of Toronto in 1900 and six years later was graduated from Drew Theological Seminary as a bachelor of divinity. He completed a master of arts course at Columbia, and Wesleyan University conferred the degree of doctor of divinity in 1912. Coe College gave him his doctorate in laws in 1916.

-Professor Homer F. Carey, of New York, has been appointed to the faculty of the Wisconsin Law school by the Board of Regents to take the place of Professor E. A. Gilmore during the latter's absence as vice-governor of the Philippine Islands. Professor Carey

will conduct classes in torts and constitutional law during this semester.

-Professor A. S. Whitney, acting Dean of the School of Education of the University of Michigan, was unanimously elected president of the Michigan State Teachers Association at its last annual meeting. Dean Whitney is recognized throughout the state of Michigan as one of her distinguished cducational leaders. He has actively promoted many constructive measures in the educational legislation of that state. -President Walter Dill Scott, of Northwestern University, widely known for his important work during the war

as director of the Committee on Classification of Personnel in the Army, will give the next Convocation address at the University of Chicago, March 24, on the subject of "Handling Men."

-Professor Charles K. Leith, chairman of the geology department at the University of Wisconsin, is on a twomonths' trip to South America. He will inspect mines of high grade iron ore in Chile for an American company, and will then cross the Andes to Argentina, and up to Brazil, to inspect other mines. This is the second trip to South America which Dr. Leith has made.

-Professor Wooster Woodruff Beman, head of the mathematics depart ment of the University of Michigan, died at his home in Ann Arbor January 18. Last June Professor Beman completed fifty years of continuous service at the University, a record unequaled by any other professor in the history of the institution. Professor Beman gained a national reputation as a writer of the history and teaching of elementary mathematics and was a member of honorary mathematical societies in the United States, England, Germany, and Italy.

-More than 600 courses are to be offered at the University of Chicago for the Summer Quarter beginning June 19 and ending September 1. They will include those in Arts, Literature, Science, Divinity, Law, Medicine, Education, Commerce and Administration and Social Service Administration. The first term will begin June 19 and the second term July 27, and students may register for either term or both. The faculty in charge will number over three hundred, about fifty of whom will come from other leading colleges and universities.

-Dr. Marion E. Park, now dean of Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass., has been chosen president of Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, to succeed Presi