College And School

COLLEGE AND SCHOOL.

Rev. Alfred S. Lyle, the oldest living graduate of the University of California, presided at the commencement exercises of that institution. He took his degree in 1864.

Mrs. S. R. Reins is the oldest principal in the New York schools, having served continuously since 1863. The teachers under her presented her with a sunburst of diamonds and pearls hidden in a box of American Beauty roses which she found on her desk.

The executive committee of the Carnegie institute, Washington, has made a grant of $5,000 and traveling expenses to Professor Arthur Gamgee, emeritus professor of physiology, Owens college, Manchester, to enable him to prepare a report on the physiology of nutrition.