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UNIVERSITIES, COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE UNITED STATES.-(Continued).

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Luther Foster

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Thomas M. Gatch, Ph. D..

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Winthrop Ellsworth Stone, Ph. D.

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Kenyon Leach Butterfield.

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1866 Kentucky Ag. & M.. Lexington, Ky.....
1868*Massachusetts Ag...Amherst, Mass.
1865* Mass. Inst. of Tech. Boston, Mass.
1857) *Michigan State Agr. Lansing, Mich.
1885 Michigan C. of Mines Houghton, Mich.
1880 Miss. Ag. & Mech... Agricultur'1 Col., Miss.
1893* Montana Agricult'l.. Bozeman, Mont.
1885 *Newark Tech. Sch.. Newark, N. J.
1893 *N. H. of A. & M. A. Durham, N. H.
1889*N. M. of A. & M. A. Mesilla Park, N. M..
1887 *N. C. of A. & M. A. West Raleigh, N. C..
1890*North Dakota Ag... Fargo, N. D.
1891 *Okla. Ag. & Mech... Stillwater, Okla.
1868 *Oregon Agricultural. Corvallis, Ore.
1874 *Purdue University...La Fayette, Ind.
1890 *R. I. of A. & M. A. Kingston, R. I.
1874 Rose Polytechnic Ins. Terre Haute, Ind.
1842 South Carolina Mil. A.. Charleston, S. C.
1881 South Dakota Agr.. Brookings, S. D.
1887 *S. D. S. of Mines...Rapid City, S. D.
1870 Stevens Ins. of Tech. Hoboken, N. J.
1876 Texas Ag. & Mech.. College Station, Tex.
1881*1 Tuskegee Institute.. Tuskegee, Ala.
1802 U. S. Military Acad. West Point, N. Y
1845 U. S. Naval Academy Annapolis. Md.
1872 Virginia Ag. & Mech. Blacksburg, Va
1839 Virginia Mil. Inst.. Lexington, Va.
19 2 Washington Agr.. Pullman. Wash.
1865 Worcester Poly. Inst. Worcester, Mass. Non-sectarian.. Edmund Arthur Engler, Ph. D., LL. D.
*Coeducational. +Marshall College founded 1836; consolidated 1852. Has a theological department.
includes 444 students registered in Radcliffe College, which is affiliated with Harvard University, though the instruction is
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THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION.

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Endowed by Andrew Carnegie; headquarters, Washington, D. C. Objects: To promote original research by systematically sustain-
ing projects of broad scope that may lead to the discovery and utilization of new forces for the benefit of man; projects of
universal scope that fill in gaps of knowledge of particular things or restricted fields of research; the administration of a department
of scientific research under a single director of competent methods; the appointment of research assistants; to increase the facilities
for higher education by original research in universities and institutions of learning. The president is Daniel C. Gilman,
the secretary Charles D. Wolcott. The other trustees are John S. Billings, David B. Henderson, S. P. Langley, Alexander
Agassiz, William N. Frew, Lyman J. Gage. John Hay. Henry L. Higginson, Charles T. Hutchinson, William Lindsay, Wayne
MacVeagh, D. O. Mills, S. Weir Mitchell, William W. Morrow, Elihu Root, Carroll D. Wright, E. A. Hitchcock, John Cadwalader,
Cleveland E. Dodge and William Wirthow.

RHODES OXFORD SCHOLARSHIPS.

The first elections of scholars in the United States under the bequests of Cecil J. Rhodes will occur between February and May. 1904. One scholar will be chosen from each State and Territory to which scholarshi's have been assigned. All candidates in each State and Territory must pass an Oxford Responsions examination, and one competitor will be named for each by the committee or university charged with making appointments. It has been decided that all scholars shall have reached at least the end of their sophomore or second year work at some recognized degreeganting university or college of the United States. Scholars must be unmarried, must be citizens of the United States, and must be between nineteen and twentyfive years of age.

The committees and the universities making appointments will be furnished with a statement of the qualifications which Mr. Rhodes desired in the holders of his scholarships, and they will be asked in exercising their right of selection to comply as nearly as circumstances will permit with the spirit of the testator's wishes.

Any inquiries about Oxford, its colleges and the courses of study there should be add: essed to F. J. Wylic, the Oxford agent of the Rhodes Trustees. The presidents of American colleges are requested to send to Mr. Wylie, for the information of the trustees, copies of their annual calendar, and such other college literature as they may think useful. Copies of Oxford Responsion papers for past years can be obtained from the Oxford University Press, Nos. 91 and 95 Fifth-ave., New-York.

The president of the State University or College is in each of the following States chairman of the committee of selection for that State: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi. Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New-Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota. Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. The following chairmen have been named for other States: Connecticut, President Arthur T. Hadley, Yale University; Illinois, President W. R. Harper, University of Chicago; Kentucky, President D. B. Gray, Georgetown College; Maryland, President W. A. Remsen, Johns Hopkins University Massachusetts, President Charles W. Eliot, Harvard University; New-Jersey, President Woodrow Wilson, Princeton University; New-York State, President Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University; Rhode Island, President W. H. P. Faunce, Brown University.

In the following States appointments will be made by the chartered colleges and universities in rotation: California, University of California, Leland Stanford University, smaller colleses every seventh year; Maine, the order of rotation yet to be fixed; Vermont, University of Vermont, Middlebury College; Washington, the order of rotation yet to be fixed.

UNIVERSITY EXTENSION.

The American Society for the Extension of University Teaching was founded at Philadelphia in June, 1890, and incorporated in March, 1892. Present ethicers: President, Frederick B. Miles; treasurer, Charles A. Brinley; recretary, Charles D. Atkins. The office is in Philadelphia. The aim of University Extension is, first, to extend higher education to all classes of people; second, to extend education through the whole of adult life; third, to extend thorough methods of study to subjects of every-day interest. During the academic year 1902-'03 the society arranged for ninetyeight courses of lectures at seventy-nine centres. The course attendance at lectures was 21,794. The number of courses for 1902-03 arranged by States is as follows: Pennsylvania, 44; New-York, 30; New-Jersey, 12; Maryland, 8; Connecticut, 3; Delaware, 1. The division by subjects is as follows. History, 33; literature, 35; music and art, 17; ethics, philosophy and education, 12; political economy, 1.

The constantly widening use that is being made of the society's lectures and of the University Extension System is shown by the following list and the various auspices under which the courses of last year were delivered: Centres primarily or mainly for teachers, 3; centres under control of women's clubs, 5; People's Institute New York City, for (workingmen), 2 courses; educational institutions (schools, Brooklyn Institute, etc.), 10 courses; New-York City Board of Education (Free Lectures to the People'), 21 courses; regular University Extension Centres. 57. The society has just completed its thirteenth year of work. Since its organization there have delivered under its auspices 1,231 courses, comprising 7,219 lectures. The average attendance at each lecture has been 200, and the aggregate attendance 1,473,879. The most important work, outside of that of the general society in Philadelphia, is carried on under the auspices of the University of Chicago; the Regents of the University of the State of New York; Columbia University; Rutgers College, New Brunswick; University of California. Sample syllabi and circulars descriptive of University Extension can be obtained free of charge by addressing Charles D. Atkins, secretary, No. 111 South Fifteenth-st., Philadelphia.

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PEABODY EDUCATION FUND.

The Peabody Education Fund was founded in 1867 by Mr. Peabody for the cause of education in the Southern and Southwestern States. The fund first amounted to $3,000,000, but as $900,000 of this amount was invested in Florida and Mississippi bonds, afterward repudiated, the furd was reduced to $2,100,000. Officers: Chairman, Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller, Washington, D. C.; secretary, Samuel A. Green,

Boston, Mass.; general agent, Samuel A. Green, Boston, Mass. Executive CommitteeWilliam A. Courtenay, Daniel C. Gilman, Charles E. Fenner, James D. Porter, Hoke Smith.

THE GENERAL EDUCATION BOARD.

The General Education Board was incorporated by an Act of Congress approved January 12, 1903. The incorporators are William H. Baldwin, jr., Frederick T. Gates, Daniel C. Gilman, Morris K. Jesup, Robert C. Ogden, Walter H. Page, George Foster Peabody and Albert Shaw. The object of the incorporation is to promote education within the United States without distinction of race, sect or creed. For the promotion of such object the said corporation is to build, improve, enlarge, or equip, or to aid others to build, improve, enlarge, or equip, buildings for elementary or industrial primary schools, schools, technical schools, normal schools, training schools for teachers, or schools of any grade, or for higher institutions of learning, or, in connection therewith, libraries, workshops, gardens, kitchens, or other educational accessories; to establish, maintain, or endow, or aid others to establish, maintain, or endow, elementary or primary schools, industrial schools, technical schools, normal schools, training schools for teachers, or schools of any grade, or higher institutions of learning; to employ or aid others to employ teachers and lecturers; to aid, cooperate with, or endow associations or other corporations engaged in educational work within the United States of America, or to donate to any such association or corporation any property or moneys which shall at any time be held by the said corporation hereby constituted; to collect educational statistics and information, and to publish and distribute documents and reports containing the same.

PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES.

Grand Army of the Republic.

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First post organized at Decatur, Ill., April 6, 1866. First national encampment held at Indianapolis November 20, 1866. Headquarters for 1903-'04, Memorial Hall, Chicago. There are forty-five State and Territorial departments. The officers of the national body are: Commander-in-chief, John C. Black, Chicago; senior vice-commander-in-chief, C. Mason Kinne, San Francisco; junior vice-commander-in-chief, Henry C. Kessler, Butte, Mont.; surgeon general, George A. Harman, Lancaster, Ohio; chaplain-in-chief, Winfield Scott, Scottsdale, Ariz.; adjutant general, Charles A. F'artridge, Chicago; quartermaster general, Charles Burrows, Rutherford, N. inspector general, Erwin B. Mosser, Hartley, Iowa: judge advocate general, James Tanner, Washington, D. C.; senior aide de camp and chief of staff, Charles H. McConnell, Chicago; Executive Committee of the National Council of AdministrationThomas W. Scott, Fairfield, Ill.; Thomas G. Sample, Allegheny, Penn.; L. W. Collins, St. Cloud, Minn.; John W. Hersey, Springfield, Mass.; E. B. Fenton, Detroit, Mich.; S. C. James, Centerville, Iowa; Henry A. Root, Michigan City, Ind., in addition to the commander-in-chief, the adjutant general and the quartermaster general. The following was the membership in the various departments on June 30, 1903:

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The loss of the organization by death for the year ending March 30, 1902, was 8,299; for the year ending March 30, 1903, 8,366. The highwater mark of membership was reached in 1890, when 409,489 names were carried on the rolls. The membership on June 30, 1902, was 263,745, showing a net loss for the year of 7,235.

Department of New-York.-Officers elected at the thirty-seventh annual encampment, Niagara Falls, June 17 and 18, 1903: Commander, John S. Koster, Port Leyden; senior vice-commander, Michael J. Cummings, New-York City; junior vicecommander, David Isaacs, Niagara Falls; medical director, H Hendrick, McGrawville; chaplain, Rev. McKindree Shaw, Williamson; assistant adjutant general, Henry E. Turner, Lowville; assistant quartermaster general, George E. Dewey, New-York City; department inspector, Samuel McAuliffe, Rochester; judge advocate, Noah Tebbetts, Brooklyn; chief mustering officer, James Taggert, Buffalo; senior aide-de-camp, James B. Black, New-York City. Council of Administration-L V. S. Mattison, Oswego; M. H. Whalen, New-York City; Andrew M. Clarke, Buffalo; W. S. Newman, Hornellsville; Nelson Mattice, Binghamton.

American Flag Association.

The American Flag Association was organized February 17, 1898, its motto being "One Flag, One Country, God Over All." Its object is to secure national and State legislation for the protection of the flag from degrading and desecrating uses, and to secure a general celebration of June 14 as "Flag Day," because on that day in 1777 Congress enacted "That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." The officers of the association are: President, Colonel Ralph E. Prime, Yonkers, N. Y.; secretaries, Theodore Fitch, No. 120 Broadway, NewYork, and Mrs. J. Wells Wentworth; treasurer, Edward Payson Cone, New-York. American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society.

Incorporated in 1895 by the New-York Legislature, with the object of preserving, either by the acquisition as public trustees or otherwise, beautiful American scenery and landmarks and objects possessing scenic or historic value. President, ; vice-presidents, Charles S. Francis, Troy, and F. W. Devoe, J. Pierpont Morgan and W. S. Logan, of New-York; treasurer, Edward Payson Cone, New-York; secretary, Edward Hagaman Hall, Tribune Building, New-York.

Association of the Army of the Tennessee.

The Association of the Army of the Tennessee was organized in 1902, "to keep alive the memory of each other and the stirring scenes in which the army took a part from 1861 to 1865." The officers are: President, Fletcher White, Washington, D. C.; vice-presidents, H. L. Deam, A. D. Gaston, L. D. Alden and W. P. Davis; recording secretary, B. W. Bonney, No. 624 C-st., N. E., Washington, D. C.; corresponding secretary, C. H. Stone; treasurer, James S. Roy.

Children of the American Revolution.

The National Society of the Children of the American Revolution was incorporated April 11, 1895, under the laws of Congress applicable to the District of Columbia, and its headquarters are fixed in Washington. The officers are: President, Mrs. Julius C. Burrows, Washington; vice-presidents, Miss Julia Ten Eyck McBlair, Mrs. Gertrude B. Darwin, Mrs. John W. Foster, Mrs. A. L. Barber, Mrs. Adolphus W. Greely, Mrs. Robert I. Fleming, Mrs. Joseph Paul, Mrs. Russell A. Alger, Mrs. M. A. Knapp, Mrs. John Tweedale, Washington, and Mrs. Mary Harrison McKee, Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; recording secretary, Miss Eliza C. Tulloch, Washington; corresponding secretary, Mrs. James Knox Taylor, the Portland, Washington; registrar, Mrs. Harry Heth, Washington, treasurer, Mrs. Violet Blair Janin, Washington; chaplain, Mrs. Teunis S. Hamlin, Washington. There are State organizations in Alabama, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New-Jersey, New-York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Fees, 50 cents a year. A national convention is held each year in Washington in February. The objects of the organization are to preserve the places made sacred by the men and women who forwarded American independence; to ascertain the deeds and honor the memories of children and youth who rendered service during the American Revolution; to promote the celebration of all patriotic anniversaries; to hold our American flag sacred above every other flag on earth, and to love, uphold and extend the institutions of American liberty. Any girl under eighteen years or boy under twenty-one years of age is eligible for membership who is lineally descended from a man or woman who rendered material aid to the cause of American independence as a soldier, sailor, civil officer or recognized patriot in one of the several Colonies or States or of the United Colonies or States. Membership about 5.S00.

Colonial Dames of America.

The Society of the Colonial Dames of America was organized May 23, 1890, and incorporated April 13, 1891. It was the first society of women for purely patriotic purposes ever founded in this country. Its objects are: (1) To collect and preserve relics, manuscripts. traditions and memories of the founders and builders of the thirteen original States of the Union, and of the heroes of the War for Independence, that the memory of their deeds and achievements may be perpetuated. (2) To promote celebration of great historic events of national importance, to diffuse information on all subjects concerning American history, particularly among the young, and to cultivate the spirit of patriotism and reverence for the founders of American constitutional history. Officers: President, Mrs. John Lyon Gardiner; vice-presidents, Mrs. James W. Gerard and Miss P. P. Boudinot; treasurer, Miss Helen van Cortlandt de Peyster; secretary, Mrs. Timothy M. Cheesman. Headquarters, No. 109 University Place, NewYork City.

Daughters of the American Revolution.

The present efforts of the society are directed toward raising funds for a great hall to be built in Washington in memory of the men and women of the Revolution. The present membership is 38,300. Headquarters, No. 902 F-st., Washington, D. C. National Board of Management: President-general, Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks, Washington, D. C.; vice-president-general in charge of organization of chapters, Mrs. Miranda Barney Tulloch, No. 902 F-st., Washington, D. C.; chaplain-general, Mrs. Teums S. Hamlin; recording secretary general, Mrs. John Walker Holcombe; corresponding secretary general, Mrs. Henry L. Mann; registrar general, Mrs. Ruth M. Griswold Pealer; treasurer general, Mrs. D. Kerfoot; historian general, Mrs. Anita Newcomb McGee; librarian general. Mrs. Edward Bennett. There are forty-eight State and Territorial organizations. A site for the proposed memorial in Washington was purchased for $50,266 17, and the society has now about $90,000 in hand toward beginning building.

*Founders and Patriots of America.

Organized, New-York City, May 13, 1896.-Object: To bring together the descendants of the founders of the country and those patriots who fought in the Revolution; to teach reverent regard for their names, their deeds and their heroism; to inculeate patriotism among the members; to discover, collect and preserve records, manuscripts, monuments and history relating to the genealogy and history of the first colonists and their ancestors and descendants, and to commemorate and celebrate events in the history of the Colonies and Republic. Eligibility: Any man above the age of twenty-one years, of good moral character and reputation, a citizen of the United States and who is lineally descended in the male line of either parent from an ancestor who settled in any of the original colonies, from May 13, 1607, to May 13, 1657, and whose intermediate ancestors in the same line adhered as patriots to the cause of the Revolutionary War. Officers: Governor-general, Colonel Ralph E. Prime, Yonkers, N. Y.; deputy governor-general, General William F. Draper, Massachusetts; chaplain-general, the Rev. Dryden William Phelps, Connecticut; secretary-general, Ferdinand P. Earle Jumel Terrace and 160th-st., New-York; treasurer-general, George Clinton Batcheller, New-York, attorney-general, Edward Lang Perkins, Pennsylvania; registrargeneral, Teunis Dimon Hunting. New-York; genealogist-general, Hon. James Jerome Belden, New-York; historian-general, Franklin Whetstone Hopkins, New-Jersey.

Mayflower Descendants.

Organized, New-York, December 22, 1894, by lineal descendants of the Mayflower Pilgrims to preserve their memory, their records, their history and all facts relating to them, their ancestors and their posterity." Every lineal descendant over eighteen years of age, male or female, of any passenger of the voyage of the Mayflower which terminated at Plymouth, Massachusetts, December, 1620, including all signers of "The Compact," is eligible to membership. Initiation fee, $10; annual dues, $5. The annual meeting is held November 21, the anniversary of the signing of "The Compact." Societies are organized in New-York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Ohio, Illinois, New-Jersey, District of Columbia, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Maine and Rhode Island, with a membership of 3,000. The above State societies have formed a national organization, of which Henry E. Howland is governor-general and Richard Henry Greene secretary-general.

Medal of Honor Legion.

The general officers of the legion are: Commander, General O. O. Howard, Burlington, Vt.; senior vice-commander, Chief Boatswain W. L. Hill, Washington, D. C.; junior vice-commander, J. C. J. Langbein, New-York; chaplain, James Miller, Philadelphia. The organization is composed of men to whom medals of honor have been given by the national government.

Military Order of the Loyal Legion.

Organized April 15, 1865; non-sectarian and non-political. The members are of three classes: (1) Commissioned officers and honorably discharged commissioned officers of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps (regulars and volunteers) actually engaged in suppressing the Rebellion prior to April 15, 1865, and eldest sons of deceased officers who served as above. (2) The eldest sons of living original companions of the first class who are twenty-one years old. Membership on July 31, 1903, 9.054; composed of first class 8,086; second class, 944; third class, 24. Largest commanderies: NewYork, 1,243 members, New-York City; Pennsylvania, 1,126, Philadelphia. The other eighteen State commanderies in order of their organization and place of headquarters are: Maine, 173, Portland; Massachusetts. 926. Boston; California, 690, San Francisco; Wisconsin, 200, Milwaukee; Illinois, 659, Chicago; District of Columbia, 851; Ohio, 830, Cincinnati; Michigan, 321, Detroit; Minnesota, 289, St. Paul; Oregon, 62, Portland; Missouri, 289, St. Louis; Nebraska, 112, Omaha; Kansas, 210, Leavenworth; Iowa, 267, Des Moines; Colorado, 246, Denver; Indiana, 353, Indianapolis; Washington, 88, Tacoma; Vermont, 119, Burlington. The present national officers are: Commander-in-chief, General D. McM. Gregg: senior vice-commander-in-chief, General John R. Brooke; junior vice-commander-in-chief, Admiral Charles E. Clark; recorder, Colonel John P. Nicholson, Philadelphia; registrar, Major William F. Huxford, Washington, D. C.; treasurer, Paymaster George De F. Barton; chancellor. Captain John O. Foering; chaplain, Henry S. Burrage; council, Major Henry L. Swords, Captain Russell H. Mason, Major Augustus M. Van Dyke, General Fred A. Starring, Major Charles A. 1ops. New-York Commandery.-Commander, Brigadier General Thomas H. Hub*No report for 1903.

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