1912–13 Volume 37 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

100 THE SCROLL.estimated to be worth $1,500,000, to the Virginia Trust Company, naming theUniversity of Virginia and the University of North Carolina as residuarylegatees, while nine other institutions will receive $10,000 each, includingColumbia University, University of South Carolina, College of Charleston,Clemsen College, North Carolina A. and M. College, V. M. I, and V. P. I.Control of the property is retained by Mr. Chaloner during his life, and theright to Vote stock, but he agrees not to encumber any of the real estate orhypothecate any of the securities except for the permanent Improvement ofhis Merry Mills property or his New York estate.The general catalogue of the alumni of Dartmouth College has just appeared,the first since 1900. Dean Emerson is editor of this volume, which includesseveral new features. Academic, civil, and military records and vital statisticsof the entire body of alumni are given. A geographical list arranging allalumni and recipients of honorary degrees by countries, states, and towns inalphabetical order is an important addition, as is also the list of non-graduates.Statistical tables also show the distribution by states and cities, occupation, andlearned professions. Since the foundation of the college, 11,902 degrees havebeen granted to 10,334 different men. These are divided as follows: Bachelordegrees, 8,002; advanced degrees, 97; Medical School, 2,152; Thayer School ofCivil Engineering, 236; Tuck School of Administration and Finance, 61, andhonorary degrees, 1,254. The number of living and dead is almost the same,5,160 and 5,174, respectively.Stanford and Indiana have recently added courses in journalism, the latteralso a course in dramatic art. Purdue has established a poultry department.Pennsylvania State has added a course in milling engineering. Syracuse hasabolished the Ph.B, degree and added a four-year course In industrial engineeringand a course to prepare teachers of agriculture. The engineering studentsof the University of Pittsburgh will have their year divided Into four terms.Three of these will be spent at the university and the fourth in practical workin industrial establishments in Pittsburgh and vicinity, co-operating wlfh theuniversity. This plan is already in successful operation at the University ofCincinnati. At fhe recent commencement exercises and presentation of newbuildings at the University of Cincinnati, President Dabney delivered his annualstatement, in which he said:The distinguishing features of this occasion are the celebration of the openina' oithe engineering building, gymnasium, and Carson field, and the graduation of the firstclasses from the co-operative engineering course. No new undertaking in education hasreceived more universal approval than this course, planned and worked out by our ownCollege with the co-operation of the manufacturers of Cincinnati. Its complete success,proved here by the presence of these first graduates, is a matter of the greatestsatisfaction.Announcement has been made at the University of Chicago of a new systemof retiring allowances for professors or their widows. A fund of $2,500,000taken from the $10,000,000 Rockefeller gift of 1910 has been set aside for thispurpose. This pension system will grant to men who have attained the rankof assistant professor or higher, and who have reached the age of 65 and haveserved 15 years or more in the institution, 40 per cent of their salary and anadditional 2 per cent for each year's service over 15. The plan also providesthat at the age of 70 a man shall be retired unless the board of trustees speciallycontinues his services. The widow of any professor entitled to the retiringallowance shall receive one-half the amount due him, provided she has been hiswife for ten years. Because the University of Chicago has a provision in itscharter giving Baptists a certain preference In its board, it cannot receive advantagefrom the Carnegie Foundation; but the last gift of $10,000,000 fromMr. Rockefeller allows it to do its own pensioning.The Harper Memorial Library at Chicago was dedicated with imposingceremonies in June. New buildings will be erected at a cost of over $1,000,000—one for the departments of geology and geography, to cost $300,000; one for