Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1906 — SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES [ARTICLE]

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

George Westinglouse, th? inventor, has received the degree of doctor of engineering from the Technical university of Berlin. Dr. Alexander Pevrunkevitch, head of the department of xo-ology at the Indiana university, is a member of the Russian nobility. The senior officers in each department es study at Yale have had their salaries raised to $4,000 for the year. This affects thirty-five professorships. The health officer of Cleveland, Ohio, has forbidden the use of slates and sponges in the primary grades of the public schools on the ground that they are unsanitary. The woman’s college of Baltimore has appointed Miss Caroline Shawe as purveyor for the college, a new office, the duties of which are to have charge of the scientific and sanitary administration of the entire establishment. A new metric chart, representing geographical measures of the international metric system of weights and measures has been prepared by the bureau of standards of the Department of Commerce and Labor and will be furnished free to any school in which the system is taught. W. L. Schlater has been appointed director of the museum of Colorado college. For four years he was deputy superintendent of the Indian museum in Calcutta and for ten yewm director of the South African museum at Cape Town. He has published a series of volumes on the fauna of Soutl Africa