Educational

Prof. Cari Earrus, of Brown unlverslty, has beon eleeted corresponding member of the British Association for the achievement oL seienre. A Phillips Brooks Memorial at Harvard college has been proposed. The sura of $50,000 has already been raised, and a plot of ground in the northwest corner of the college groimds has been set apart for this purpose. The Bruce gold medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific has been awarded to Prof. Simon Newcomb, of Washington, D. C. for his distinguished services to astronomy. This is the first award of the medal. The National Slimmer School Association, which has been holding yearly meetings at Glens Falls, N. Y., has been dissolved by action of the stockholders on account of the unsatisfactory financial condition of the associatiopi. Two physicians have been appointed en an annual salary to visit the schools I of Plainfield. N. .T., regularly to looi; after the health of the pupils and study I the sanitary condition of the buildings, j They are also to make an examinafion ! of the sigïrt and hearing of each pupil in October and June. An educational magazine palled the Mistletoe, in the interests of Americar universities, is to be published ua'lr advice of five senior professors of the liteTary, law and medical department of the university of Michigan. This wíll be the first real intercollegiate magazine in the country. Bishop McLaren, on account of increasing diocesan duties, lias resigned ; the position of dean of the Western Theological Seminal y, at Chicago, whicl". j he has held since the establishment of; the institution in 1884. The seminary has prospered nnder Bishop McLaren, and it now has ?400,000 worth of property and no indebtedness of any kind. The Women's Federated clubs of sonri. in convention at Sedalia, voted to ■ establish a traveling library in j ri, and appointed a board of seven members to inaugúrate the wórk. A library fund of ?250 was quickly raisec! i by subscription, and the thvee hundred delegates pledged liberal contributions : of funds and books. It was decided to earry on the library after the plans now in successful operation in Iov3 and Michigan. Count Posadowsky, the minister of the interior, announced in the Germán : reichstag that the authorities had : cided that women henceforth shonld be allowed to attend university lecturea j as guests, with the permission of the : rector and professors. He added that the imperial chancellor, Prince Hohenlohe, was arranging .for the federal government's granting women mas. and, he continued, if the ment was successful further measures [ were probable.