(who alone are admitted under the new regulations), an attendance nearly doubled. Organized instruction in the new Harvard Forest at Petersham opened Oct. 1. Students and teachers are housed in the reconstructed buildings which formed part of the gift of Mr. J. S. Ames, and work on the fundamentals of Forestry is carried on almost entirely in the field. The effectiveness of this scheme, particularly in comparison with the method hitherto necessarily employed at Cambridge, can scarcely be overestimated. No more than two courses are given during any one week and usually the work of each occupies a full day at a time. According to the routine of the camp, breakfast is at 7 o'clock, and there is a lecture for each of the two classes (first and second year) from 8 to 9. At 9 each class, divided into squads, each with a particular assignment, goes into the woods and works till 4 P. M. Under this arrangement the first-year men have been studying forest botany, silviculture, and forest measurements, so as to combine constant practice in the identification of trees, scientific methods of cutting, and the calculation of volume and growth with lectures on these different topics: and in the same way the second-year students have pursued their study of forest organization and the regulation of yield, taking part in the actual lumbering operations in the forest. Both classes will return to Cambridge Dec. 1 for the winter term.

After a year's enjoyment by staff and students in the College Library of the additional space and conveniences rendered possible by the enlargements of the summer of 1907, it is pleasant to report The College that these additions have accomplished more even than was Library. expected of them, indeed, that (as is always the case with indispensable improvements) it is difficult to see how this important department of the University managed to get along for so many years without them. The new collating-rooms are perhaps more obviously useful than any of the late additions; but the treasure-room, and the rooms for small classes upstairs, are scarcely less so. It is also obvious that other additions will be imperatively necessary in the near future. The accessions of the past year (30,000 volumes) have been more numerous than ever before, and there is no prospect of their diminishing; and the result is that the small amount of extra shelf-room gained by the recent enlargement has been already almost exhausted. The basement of Hastings Hall has recently been made available, through the removal to Langdell Hall of law books previously stored there, as an overflow, but it is earnestly to be hoped that further extensions of the Library itself may be made possible in the near future which will render subterraneous accumulations in outlying buildings no longer necessary.

Final figures
of the Summer

School of 1904.

The final statistics of the Summer School of Arts and Sciences of 1908 show that it had the largest attendance in the history of the institution with the exception of the summer of 1903, when the meeting of the National Educational Association in Boston brought an unusual number of teachers to this vicinity. There were 957 students enrolled in the Summer School as against 809 in the summer of 1907. It is to be noticed that these figures do not include the Summer Schools of Theology, Medicine, Dentistry, Mining, the Engineering Camp at Squam Lake, or the field classes under the direction of Prof. Wolff in Montana, Prof. Davis in Europe, and Prof. Woodworth in South America. Of the 957 students, 489 were men and 468 were women. There were 545 teachers, 172 Harvard students, and 134 students from other colleges. The geographical distribution of the students was especially interesting. Massachusetts came first with 436 students; Pennsylvania was second with 67. Other large representations were as follows: New York, 58; Ohio, 34; Illinois, 27; Maine, 26; China, 26; Maryland, 21; Connecticut, 20; New Jersey, 18; New Hampshire, 17; Canada, 17; District of Columbia, 16; Minnesota, 13; Georgia, 11; Rhode Island, 11; Wisconsin, 10. In addition there were representatives from 28 other states. Besides the students from China and Canada, there were 6 from Cuba, 3 from Japan, 2 from Mexico, and 1 each from England, Germany, Hawaii, Panama, and Turkey.

The athletic situation.

It is too early at this date of writing (Nov. 1) to prophesy intelligently concerning the prospect in athletics. On the face of it the outlook seems highly promising all around. The football men are enthusiastic in their loyalty to their new coach, who has certainly succeeded in infusing an unusual amount of life into his men, and has been aided by one of the largest and most efficient bands of assistant coaches that the present writer has ever witnessed on Soldier's Field. The track team has also gone into its autumn work with unusual vim, under its new trainer, Donovan, and in the autumn games on Oct. 24, a new college record of 12 ft. 4 inches was established in the pole-vault. In baseball and on the river the autumn season is progressing favorably; last year's victories in these two branches of sport certainly have not led to over-confidence, for the enthusiasm and energy of captains and candidates have never been surpassed. So far, moreover, the question of athletics has not come up for discussion in the Faculty, so that the Athletic Committee continues to enjoy its welcome respite from outside interference. A word remains to be added as a tribute to the efficiency of Mr. Garcelon, who has taken up the responsibilities of his new position with a zeal which promises before long to relieve the Athletic Committee of a

mass of onerous routine, and at the same time to unify and regulate the somewhat heterogeneous conditions under which different branches of sport are carried on in the University.

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The formation during the past summer of a 'Varsity Club, with quarters on Holyoke St., is another thing which will doubtless serve to improve the conditions of Harvard athletics in years to come. The idea of such a club at Harvard originated with Mr. P. D. Haughton, '99, who soon enlisted the enthusiastic support of a number of old Harvard athletes. The club has been underwritten by graduates who are to pay one fifth of their underwriting as soon as called on. Invitations have been sent to those eligible to join. The dues are $10 a year for graduates of more than three years' standing, and $5 for those of less than three years and for undergraduates. The membership is limited in the older classes to graduates who have represented Harvard on a 'Varsity team in football, rowing, baseball, or on the track, and in later classes to “H” men in the same sports and to undergraduates who have played or are playing on any of these four teams. The principal objects of the club are: to serve as headquarters of the undergraduate athletic council; to carry out more effectively the objects of the present 'Varsity Captains' Club; to promote a greater intimacy and good-fellowship among the members of the various teams; to furnish a common and easily accessible meeting ground for coaches and players; to provide training-tables for the teams and a proper living place for graduates who come back to Cambridge to coach, and a meeting place where such graduates may assemble to exchange ideas and to organize themselves into an effective coaching corps.

The past few months have witnessed the appointment of two more Harvard men as university presidents, and the translation from one university to another of a third. C. A. Duniway, A.M. '94, Miscellaneous Ph.D. '97, has been elected President of the University and Personal. of Montana, and S. E. Mezes, '90, of the University of Texas. D. F. Houston, A.M. '92, has been called from the presidency of Texas to that of Washington University, St. Louis.-The following members of the Faculty are on leave of absence for the academic year: Professors A. P. Andrew, Jr., Kuno Francke, W. F. Harris, A. B. Hart, S. M. Macvane, A. Sauveur, W. R. Spalding, J. H. Woods, and C. H. C. Wright. Mr. G. G. Wilson, lecturer in International Law, and Prof. A. C. Coolidge are on leave of absence for the first half year; Prof. C. H. Haskins for the second. - Prof. Wilson was appointed by Pres. Roosevelt as a delegate to represent the United States at a conference to meet at London in October, 1908, for the purpose of arriving at an agreement as

to the generally recognized principles and rules to be observed by the International Prize Court. At the inauguration of Pres. Garfield of Williams College, Prof. A. L. Lowell, '77, received the degree of LL.D. President Eliot made one of the addresses at the alumni dinner. — The annual series of Hyde lectures under the auspices of the Cercle Français will be given this year by M. Abel LeFranc, professor of literature in the Collège de France, Paris. The course will consist of a series of four public lectures in French on "Molière and His Writings." They will be given in Emerson Hall in February. — Arthur G. Sedgwick, '64, of New York, has been appointed by the Corporation to deliver the Godkin Lectures during the present academic year. - Prof. W. Z. Ripley, of the Economic Department, sailed for London on Nov. 4, to deliver the annual Huxley Memorial Lecture in commemoration of Thomas Henry Huxley's work in the field of ethnology, before the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. This lecture is in substance a recognition of work done in the preparation of Prof. Ripley's book, "The Races of Europe."

R. B. Merriman, '96.

THE UNIVERSITY.

CORPORATION RECORDS.1

Meeting of Sept. 29, 1908.

Voted that the thanks of the President and Fellows be sent to Mr. Jacob H. Schiff for his generous gift of $40,000, the final payment on account of his offer of $50,000 to defray the expenses of a scientific expedition to and excavations in Palestine under the auspices of the Semitic Museum of Harvard University, the remainder, if any, to be used under the direction of the Committee on the Semitic Department for the purposes of the Semitic Museum.

Voted that the thanks of the President and Fellows be sent to Mrs. Henry Draper of New York for her additional gifts, amounting to $3333.32, received since June 23, 1908, towards the expenses at the Observatory of Harvard University

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on account of the Draper Memorial. The Treasurer reported the receipt of $2333.76 from the estate of Francis Porter Fisher "to endow a scholarship to be named 'The George Fisher and Elizabeth Huntington Fisher Scholarship,' the interest of which shall go to help worthy and needy students of said College, preference being given to any collateral heirs of this testator, in such manner as the College trustees may prescribe, it being made to appear that this endowment is a memorial to both my father and mother, . . . and that it is the joint gift of myself and my twin brother, Frederick Pitkin Fisher, both of the Class of 1848."

Voted that the anonymous gift of $2500 for the investigation of cancer, to be used under the direction of the Caroline Brewer Croft Fund Cancer Commission, be gratefully accepted.