The inauguration of Dr. Frank Pierrepont Graves as president of the University and State Commissioner of Education will be the outstanding feature of the 57th annual convocation of the University of the State of New York, which will be held on Thursday and Friday, October 20-21, in the State Education Building in Albany. The 600th anniversary of the death of Dante will be observed with two addresses on Friday evening and a timely address on present conditions in Russia will be given by Baron Sergius A. Korff of Washington, D. C.

Other prominent and distinguished speakers will be President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University; President Lotus D. Coffman of the University of Minnesota; Dr. Alexander Inglis of the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University; Hon. Louis Marshall, distinguished jurist, of New York City, and Dr. Ernest W. Butterfield, commissioner of education for the state of New Hampshire.

Chancellor Chester S. Lord will deliver the chancellor's annual address at the opening session of the convocation on Thursday evening. As usual representatives from schools, colleges and other educational institutions throughout the state will be in attendThe complete program follows:

ance.

Thursday Afternoon Registration of delegates, Education Building.

Thursday Evening

Hon. Chester S. Lord, LL.D., Chancellor of the University, presiding.

Invocation, John Kelman, D.D., LL.D., New York City.

Chancellor's Annual Address and Presentation of Frank Pierrepont Graves, LL.D., as President of the University and Commissioner of Education. Inaugural Address, President Frank Pierrepont Graves.

Address, Nicholas Murray Butler, LL.D.,

President of Columbia University. Reception in the Rotunda, tendered by the Board of Regents to guests and delegates.

Friday Morning Hon. Adelbert Moot, LL.D., Vice Chancellor of the University, presiding. Address: "What Education Means to America," Lotus D. Coffman, Ph.D., President of University of Minnesota. Discussion led by Frederick C. Ferry, LL.D., President of Hamilton College, and Albert Leonard, Ph.D., Superintendent of Schools, New Rochelle. Address: "Principles Determining the Content of the High School Course," Alexander Inglis, Ph.D., Graduate School of Education, Harvard University.

Discussion led by John H. Denbigh, Ph.D., Principal Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn, and Sherman L. Howe, B.A., President Associated Academic Principals, Carthage.

Friday Afternoon

Hon. James Byrne, LL.D., Regent of the University, presiding..

Address: "The Desirability of State Appropriations for Education as an Investment," Louis Marshall, LL.D., New York City.

Discussion led by Mark Graves, Research Director, State Board of Estimate and Control, and Frank D. Boynton, Pd.D., Superintendent of Schools, Ithaca.

Address: "The Problem for the Rural
School," Hon. Ernest W. Butterfield,
LL.D., Commissioner of Education,
State of New Hampshire.

Discussion led by George M. Wiley,
LL.D., Assistant Commissioner for
Elementary Education, State of New
York, and William E. Pierce, District
Superintendent of Schools,
County.

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GENERAL NEWS

-In order to stimulate a deeper interest in the effective use of English, Grenville Kleiser offers a prize of $100 for the best list of fifty prose similes, selected from standard authors.

The contest is open to anyone, and the conditions are as follows: Similes will be judged for their clearness, dignity, and significance; a simile may be short or long, but must be complete in itself; sources should not be given; a contestant may submit as many lists as desired; commonplace and trite similes will be rejected.

All lists should be typewritten and mailed not later than November 1, 1921, to Grenville Kleiser, Room 606, 1269 Broadway, New York City.

-Professor G. F. Warren, of Cornell University, has been requested by Henry Wallace, United States secretary of agriculture, to serve as consulting

specialist to the chief of the Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimates during the reorganization and consolidation of the bureau. Professor Warren has accepted and has been granted leave of absence from Cornell until February 1, 1922.

-The Wyoming State Teachers Association will meet at Thermopolis on October 12, 13 and 14, under the presidency of A. O. Slade. Dr. Frederick E. Bolton, dean of the College of Education in the University of Washington, and Dr. Charles Ernest Chadsey, dean of the College of Education in the University of Illinois, and former superintendent of schools in Detroit and Chicago, will address the meeting.

-H. V. Holloway, of Dover, superintendent of Kent County, has been appointed superintendent of education of the State of Delaware.

-Lewis H. Carris, of Newark, N. J., formerly chief of the Industrial Re

habilitation Division, has been appointed director of the Federal Board for Vocational Education. He will have charge of all educational activities of the board and supervision over allotment of federal funds to the states.

-Dedicatory ceremonies of the Peking Union Medical College, which was erected by the China medical board of the Rockefeller foundation, were held in Peking, September 19. Several hundred visitors, including prominent physicians, educators and missionaries from America, France, England and Japan were present. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who came for the dedication, was felicitated in behalf of the president and the government, and in his response outlined the scope, aims and history of the institution. He also read a congratulatory cablegram from John D. Rockefeller, his father. The cost of the building and equipment totaled $8,000,000, and the college is intended as the nucleus for the scientific medical training of physicians in China, where in the past the practice of medicine has been a matter of tradition rather than of science.

-Dr. Calvin N. Kendall, until recently State Commissioner of Education of New Jersey, died on September 2, at the age of sixty-three years. Dr. Kendall had for some time been suffering from Bright's disease, and for that reason was unable to accept the reappointment as commissioner of education of New Jersey offered to him by the governor, or to preside at the meeting of the Department of Superintendence held at Atlantic City last February.

Dr. Kendall was born in Augusta, N. Y., on February 8, 1858. He graduated from Hamilton College with the degree of A.B. in 1882. He then became a teacher in the rural schools of New York State for two years, and was afterwards principal of the Jackson High School, Jackson, Mich., from 1885 to

1886, when he was made superintendent of the schools of the city, holding this office until 1890. From 1890 to 1892 he was superintendent at Saginaw, Mich.; from 1895 to 1900 at New Haven, Conn., and from 1900 to 1911 at Indianapolis, where he was also a member of the Indiana State Board of Education.

He was appointed state commissioner of education in New Jersey in 1911, and was reappointed in 1916. He leaves behind him a notable record of achievement as an educator and school administrator in the many important positions he has filled.

-Mr. John Robert Gregg, president of The Gregg Publishing Company and author of Gregg Shorthand, accompanied by Mrs. Gregg, recently returned from a three months' trip to Europe.

Mr. Gregg while abroad was principally engaged in organizing commercial courses and commercial schools in connection with the spread of Gregg Shorthand in England. The English people are displaying a wonderful interest not only in Gregg Shorthand, but in American business methods. The Gregg sys

tem has already been introduced into hundreds of classes and about 1,500 teachers are now studying the system with the view to teaching it.

-One hundred and fifty students of the University of California are COoperating with the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce in a city-wide survey of the industrial establishments of San Francisco in order to obtain complete information regarding manufacturing activity upon which the community can. base an intelligent industrial promotion campaign. The young men and women who are doing this work are junior and senior students, members of Prof. Webster R. Robinson's class in economics, and are making a special study of business organization.

When completed the survey will afford the basis for intensive studies, or briefs, on special lines of activity which are either inadequate or wholly unrepresented in San Francisco. Opportunities for engaging in many new industries will probably be revealed, and with the facts in hand, a campaign can be made to attract capital to establish them.

-The University of Minnesota has received from the Commonwealth Fund of New York a grant of $10,000 to be expended by Dr. Leonard V. Koos, professor of secondary education, in making a study of the junior-college movement throughout the country.

-Catholic schools and universities throughout the world observed September 14 as Dante day in commemoration of the 600th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, the great Florentine poet and "father of the Italian language," "in accordance with the encyclical of Pope Benedict issued last May.

In anticipation of the sex-centenary of Dante's death the government of Italy authorized the expenditure of 2,000,000 lire for the publication of a

new edition of his works and for the restoration of the Baptistry of Florence.

-Authors and all literary folk will be interested in the new publication "Who's Who Among North American Authors," published by the Golden Syndicate Publishing Company, of Los Angeles, Cal. Angeles, Cal. It is reported that the libraries all over the United States, Canada, Europe, Hawaii, and other places have bespoken copies of this author's Who's Who for their library reference room. The volume contains the biographical sketch of between 1,500 and 2,000 American authors, with a list of their works, residence addresses, and many photographs, with much additional library help in the form of an addenda. Only living American authors are included in the volume.

-Pennsylvania is to have a Thaddeus Stevens building for the department of education on the capitol grounds in Harrisburg. It was one short speech by Thaddeus Stevens in the Legislature of Pennsylvania in 1835, which prevented the Legislation of 1834 from being set aside. It was one of the greatest single speeches for public schools ever delivered in any state or country.

-That one of the most important functions of the motion picture in education is to teach patriotism and good citizenship to the boys and girls who are the voters of tomorrow, was strongly stressed by city and county superintendents attending the institute recently held in Elgin, Illinois, to discuss plans and problems of the new school year.

Among the school movies screened for the educators present were citizenship films produced by the Society for Visual Education, which is co-operating in the movement for compulsory civics instruction in every grade school in the country.

Edwin M. Harris, superintendent of Kane County Schools, Illinois, declared that the lesson of reverence for the flag

needs to be taught from the kindergarten up, and with increasing emphasis and intensity from grade to grade. He said: "The right sort of patriotic film, shown from time to time during the term and freely discussed in class afterward, will do more than any other single teaching plan to fuse the habit of loyalty and patriotism into the mental and moral makeup of our boys and girls."

-The American Country Life Association will hold its fourth annual meeting in New Orleans, November 10-12. Should consolidated schools be located in the open country or in towns, what should be the relations of the town or small city and the outlying country in regard to church, social and trade relationships, are problems that will be discussed at this meeting. The officers of the association are as follows: Kenyon L. Butterfield, president; A. R. Mann, vice-president; Charles J. Galpin, executive secretary; Charles A. Jenkins, treasurer; Nat T. Frame, acting field secretary.

-Charles H. Sampon, of the Boston University Extension Division, has recently completed two films of 1,000 feet each on the subject of geometry. Teaching geometry by means of the "movies" is a new departure in educational methods. If this method proves successful in arousing an increased interest and study of geometry, it could well be utilized in teaching other subjects in the school curriculum. The outcome of this experiment will be watched with interest by educators and school authorities. These films are being distributed by the Society for Visual Education, 806 West Washington Boulevard, Chicago.

COLLEGE NOTES

-Johns Hopkins University in its department of education offers an unusual list of graduate courses this year

for advanced students in education aiming to do research work. The graduate work provides opportunity for study and investigation in the fields of educational history, principles, psychology, measurement, administration, experiment, and in higher, secondary, and elementary education. It is designed to prepare advanced students to give instruction in the subject, to make application of the results of investigations to the problems in practical situations, and also to introduce students in special subjects to the principles which may be applied in the educational organization of their specialties.

-Dr. George Shannon McCune, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been elected president of Huron College, South Dakota, to succeed Dr. Harry Gage, who resigned to become president of Coe College.

-David Prescott Barrows, president of the University of California, has been appointed a member of the National Research Council for a period of three years in the Division of States Relations.

-Professor A. V. Miller, associate professor of drawing and descriptive geometry, has been appointed assistant dean of the college of engineering of the University of Wisconsin, to take the place of Professor J. D. Phillips, who is now acting business manager.

-Dr. Thomas M. Balliet, who last year retired from the deanship of the school of pedagogy of New York University, will give a course of lectures at Boston University during the academic year.

-Dr. John Sundwall, director of the students' health service and professor of hygiene and public health, University of Minnesota, has been made director of hygiene and public health in the newly established department of physical education in the University of Michigan. He will also become director of students'