GENERAL NEWS

-The Ford Motion Picture Laboratory is engaged in the production of an cducational film library, to be known as the "Ford Educational Library," that will provide for the public and private schools and colleges of every nation in the civilized world films distinctly for class-room use in the way that will make them of greatest value and easiest to obtain. On September 1 the first issue of this library was made available to every school in the United States. The subjects will be specially prepared for use in any class-room by members of the scholastic profession who are experts in their particular line and the units as arranged will be distributed under a plan that will fully meet all conditions in each school, whether the schools be large or small. The library will further offer to every university and college in the United States facilities for the production by their own professors of films for world-wide school use in any quantities that may be necessary to meet the constantly increasing demand.

-The formation of teachers' unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor is branded as "improper and unprofessional" by Dr. Thomas E. Finegan, state superintendent of education in Pennsylvania. Dr. Finegan's declaration followed the action of the teachers in Lancaster, Pa., in joining the labor federation to enforce salary demands. "The teachers employed in the schools are the servants of the entire state," Dr. Finegan said, "as well as of the locality in which the school is maintained. These teachers may not form an alliance of any character with any interest in the community which will prevent them from serving impartially the best interests of all the people and the state. When teachers are unable to obtain justice through the action of their superior officers, their appeal should always be made directly to their constituents, the public at large."

Carlos Merton Cole, who had served as superintendent of schools at Denver since 1915, died suddenly on June 6 following an operation for appendicitis. Mr. Cole was born near Durand, Ill., in 1872. He was educated in the schools of Iowa and graduated from Grinnell College in 1895. He also graduated from the University of Denver in 1916. Before going to Denver he was superintendent at Colorado Springs. He was a modern schoolmaster, energetic and progressive, and thoroughly devoted to his profession. He enjoyed the confidence of his associates and the public.

-Deputy Superintendent R. S. Jones became superintendent of the Cleveland schools August 1, succeeding Dr. Frank E. Spaulding, who resigned to become head of the Department of Education in the graduate school of Yale University. Mr. Jones begins his term as superintendent with prospects indicating unusual progress in public education in Cleveland. Born in Ohio 48 years ago, he received most of his

education in that state. He is a graduate of Ohio Northern University. His first teaching was in the rural schools and afterwards in city schools. Finally he became a high school principal and later a school superintendent. He took time, while advancing in the school world, to secure from Columbia University the master's degree. He served for many years in Illinois and was superintendent at Rockford when asked to come to Cleveland.

-The new National Academy of Visual Instruction, which held its first conferences during the week of July 19 at the University of Wisconsin, elected as its first president Prof. W. H. Dudley, chief of the bureau of visual instruction of the Wisconsin University Extension division, who was one of the leaders in the organization of the academy.

-Albert B. Meredith, who recently became commissioner of education for the state of Connecticut, will receive a salary of $9,000 a year. He is the highest paid administration official in the state.

-J. Leo Muir of the Davis county high school, has been appointed to succeed George N. Childs as state superintendent of Utah. Mr. Childs became superintendent of Salt Lake City on July 1.

-George C. Rowell, for several years editor of American Education and more recently an inspector of the New York state board of charitics, has become field secretary for the New Hampshire Tuberculosis Association. He is organizing the work in various districts of New Hampshire for the purpose of conducting a comprehensive tuberculosis survey of the entire state. Mr. Rowell is a native of Ogdensburg, N. Y., and a graduate from Union College. He has had considerable experience in both newspaper and magazine work. He was also sceretary of the Schenectady, N. Y. chamber of commerce for three years. He is unusually He is unusually well equipped both by training and experience for the line of work that he is

now actively and successfully organizing.

-William R. Howard, superintendent and principal of the Williamstown, Mass., high school for the past nine years, resigned at the close of the past school year. Under his direction the Williamstown schools have moved forward to a high point of efficiency. Albert J. Chidester has been appointed as the successor of Mr. Howard.

-The birds in the neighborhood of St. Louis have had their housing problems reduced to lowest terms by the act of the Boy Scouts of St. Louis, who, as a result of a contest which closed last

spring, provided 2,308 splendidly built bird houses, which have been placed in the public parks and other reserves.

-A resolution protesting against the Smith-Towner bill was passed at the recent meeting of the Catholic Educational Association. The resolution says that the bill "tends to centralize at Washington powers reserved under the Constitution to the respective states or to the people." It was submitted by the Rev. Francis W. Howard.

-A new book by Professor Andrew C. McLaughlin, head of the department of history at the University of Chicago, is just announced by the publishers under the title of "Steps in the Development of American Democracy." fessor McLaughlin is the author also of recent volume on "America and Britain."

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-Three hundred Boy Scouts of America, who through rigid competition. were chosen to represent their various communities, set sail July 3 from New York city to attend the great convention of the Boy Scouts of the World in London July 26-29. Thirty-four nations sent large delegations. Following the convention scout demonstrations were: held in the stadium at Olympia near London. Trips through Belgium and over the battle fields of France were included in the program arranged for the hundreds of Scouts fortunate enough to be selected for this extended trip.

-Herbert D. Bixby, principal of East Technical high school in Cleve land, will succeed as assistant superintendent in charge of elementary education, Miss Catharine T. Bryce, who was appointed to an assistant professorship in the department of education of Yale University.

-A survey of the school system of Philadelphia is to be made in the near future, according to an announcement of the board's committee of twelve which studied the situation. The survey will embrace a study of the city's population, the physical equipment of the schools, the physical administration, the professional organization and administration, the aims, policies and procedure of the schools, and such other matters as the committee shall determine.

COLLEGE NOTES

-The board of trustees of the University of Chicago has authorized an increase in the salaries of a large number of the teaching staff of the university. This is the second increase within a year and the two will add approximately $200,000 to the amount paid each month to members of the faculty.

-David Allan Robertson, associate professor of English and secretary to the president of the University of Chicago, has been appointed by the board of trustees to a new office in the university, that of dean of the colleges of arts, literature and science. Dean Robertson was graduated from the University of Chicago in 1902. He has been connected with the department of English for sixteen years and has been secretary to the president for fourteen years. He has also been head of Hitchcock hall, a residence hall for men. As secretary of University College, secretary of the University Orchestral Association, director of University Public Lectures, and secretary of the Association of American Universities, he has given versatile and valuable service.

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-Arrangements are assuming definite shape for the celebration of the one

hundredth anniversary of the founding. of the Ohio-Miami Medical College, University of Cincinnati, to be held November 4. Leaders of the medical profession in Cincinnati, who are on the faculty of the medical college, are planning to invite the most noted scientists in the United States to attend the centenary. Through efforts of Dr. Joseph Ransohoff, professor of surgery, and his colleagues in the college, Sir Auckland Geddes, ambassador to the United States from Great Britain, has accepted an invitation to speak at the anniversary celebration.

-Professor Leonard Eugene Dickson of the department of mathematics at the University of Chicago, who received his doctor's degree, summa cum laude, from that institution, has been elected a corresponding member of the French academy of science. Professor Dickson is the first American mathematician in pure mathematics to be awarded this high distinction.

-Dr. Wallace Walter Atwood, S. B., '97, Ph. D., '03, professor of physiog raphy in Harvard University, has been appointed president of Clark University to succeed Dr. Stanley Hall.

-Dr. John H. Reynolds, president of Hendrix College, Arkansas, has been selected as director-general of the $25,000,000 educational campaign of the Methodist Episcopal church, south. This is regarded as the greatest educational movement ever attempted in that part of the country. Under the presidency of Dr. Reynolds, Hendrix College has become one of the best endowed and equipped denominational colleges in the south.

-Professor James Henry Breasted, Ph. D., LL. D., chairman of the department of oriental languages and literatures and director of the oriental institute of the University of Chicago, was convocation orator at the 117th convocation of the university held September 3. Professor Breasted, who has recently returned after a year's work as director of the oriental institute in conducting an archaeological survey of the

Near East, has been highly successful in finding extraordinary opportunities for enriching Haskell oriental museum from objects in Egypt and Mesopotamia.

-Director Charles Hubbard Judd of the School of Education, who is also head of the department of education in the university, has been made chairman. of the department of psychology at the University of Chicago, succeeding Professor James R. Angell who resigned to accept the presidency of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Director Judd, who formerly was professor and director of the psychological laboratory at Yale University, has been president of the American Psychological Association and editor of the monograph supplements of the "Psychological Re view." He has written a general introduction to psychology, as well as a recent volume on "The Psychology of The Psychology of High-School Subjects."

-The Pennsylvania College for Women celebrated its fiftieth anniversary last June with a varied program of exercises, which included an elaborate historical pageant entitled "Victory Through Conflict." The pageant, in which about 800 characters took part, portrayed the efforts of mankind through centuries of time to attain the largest measure of earthly success. From modest beginning the college has grown and expanded until it has become one of the leading and influential women's colleges of the middle states. -"Wisconsin," a history of the Badger state university from its beginning to the present time, has been completed by Prof. F. J. A. Pyre of the English department and is now being published as a volume in the American College and University series. book belongs to the series which includes "Columbia," by F. P. Keppel, "Harvard," by J. H. Gardiner, "Illinois," by Alvin Nevis, "Princeton," by V. L. Collins, "Vassar," by Jane M. Taylor and Elizabeth H. Haight, and "Yale," by George H. Nettleton. Prof. G. P.

Krepp of Columbia University is editor. of the series.

-Frederick C. Hicks, professor of economics at the University of Cincinnati, was elected by the university board of trustees president of the university, succeeding Dr. Charles W. Dabney.

-Acting President John E. Cousens of Tufts College was appointed permanent president of the institution last June by the board of trustees of that institution.

-The centennial of the Harvard Law School and the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the late Dean Christopher Columbus Langdell's service were celebrated June 19. The school was founded in 1817 but war conditions caused postponement of the celebration. The program included as speakers Charles E. Hughes, President A. Lawrence Lowell of the university, Dean Roscoe Pound of the law school, Henry L. Stimson, former secretary of war; Professor Harold O. Hazeltine of

the University of Cambridge, England, and James Byrne of New York, a fellow of the Harvard corporation.

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-Professor Chares Edward riam of the department of political science at the University of Chicago, gave the commencement address at the University of Colorado on June 14, his subject being "American Political Ideals." On the same occasion he was given the honorary degree of doctor of laws. A new volume by Professor Merriam has just been published under the title of "American Political Ideals."

-The enrollment of the twenty-first summer session of the Columbia summer school was over ten thousand, the largest in its history. Other leading summer schools report record-breaking attendance this year.

-Plans have been made for a campaign by the International Y. M. C. A. College to raise a fund of $3,000,000, of which $1,000,000 will be for endowment, $750,000 for land and new buildings and $170,000 to guarantee ex

penses for two years. The present endowment is $200,000.

-Dean Shailer Mathews of the University of Chicago Divinity School, class of '84 at Colby College, Maine, gave the anniversary address at the celebration of Colby's centennial from June 26 to 30. The Phi Beta Kappa address was given by President W. H. P. Faunce of Brown University. A pageant illustrating the hundred years of the college history was presented by the student body and alumni.

-Highest honors among the 878 June graduates from Northwestern University were awarded to Mrs. Howard Van S. Tracy of Evanston, who took her baby daughter to college with her and completed the four year course in three years. Mrs. Tracy was graduated with a degree of bachelor of arts.

-The University of Wisconsin had the largest summer student body enrolled in the history of the institution. The total enrollment was approximately 3,600. The great growth in enrollment at the Wisconsin summer session is shown by the figures in recent catalogues; 528 students enrolled in 1905; 1,128 students in 1909; 1,925 students in 1915, and probably about 3,000 in

1920.

-According to a recent announcement by Henry B. Thompson, chairman of the committee in charge, Prince ton University's endowment fund has passed $7,000,000. Contributions of 8,175 persons average $869, ranging from $1 to $360,000. A million dollars represents contributions of over a thousand persons who never attended who never attended the university. New York city and state lead with total subscriptions amounting to $2,865,910.42. New Jersey is second with $891,203, while the Chicago district already has given $730,708.87.

-Herbert Hoover and Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, retiring president of Cornell University, received honorary degrees of doctor of laws at the 154th annual commencement of Rutgers College. Supreme Court Justice G. D. B.

Hasbrouck of New York was honored similarly.

-After serving fifty-seven years as professor of mathematics in Colgate University, Dr. James Morford Taylor tendered his resignation at the close of the last college year. Dr. Taylor graduated from Colgate in 1867. He is the author of several books on mathematics.

With the opening of the college year Syracuse University will have new deans at the head of three of its colleges. Roland L. Nye will be dean of the College of Agriculture, Franklin F. Moon of the College of Forestry and Albert S. Hurst of the Teachers' College.

NEW YORK STATE ITEMS

Death of Jacob R. Street Jacob Richard Street, 60, dean of Teachers' College, Syracuse University, for 10 years, and widely known as an educator, died June 11 at his home in Syracuse, after a long illness. His wife died in 1915, and his health had been failing since. In December, 1916, he found it necessary to tender his resig nation as head of Teachers' College.

Dean Street was born July 1, 1860, at Palmyra, Ontario. He was graduated from Victoria University in 1884 with the degree of B. A., and four years later from Toronto University, with an M. A. degree. In 1898 he was given the Ph. D. degree by Clark University, where he had taken a course in pedagogy.

Previous to coming to Syracuse University 20 years ago, Dean Street had established a name for himself as a highly capable instructor of several courses. After teaching for some time in Smithville high school, he accepted a position as master of modern languages at Walkerton high school. In 1887 he was given the principalship of Caledonia high school, remaining in that capacity for eight years.

In 1899 he was added to the faculty at Mount Holyoke as professor of pedagogy, and, after a year there, was