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The General Education board has appropriated $16,000 for the use of the National Committee on Mathematical Requirements, appointed by the Mathematical Association of America, it was announced late in February. The chairman of the requirements committee is Professor J. W. Young of Dartmouth, who is now on leave of absence from the college to devote himself to the committee's work.

Professor John M. Poor, director of the Shattuck Observatory and professor of astronomy, was the lecturer at the Brooklyn Academy of Arts and Sciences, Wednesday evening, February 4, in the excellent lecture course presented by that institution during the present winter. "The Distances of the Stars" was his lecture subject.

Professor Riverda Harding Jordan, chairman of the department of education, has twice this winter delivered papers before learned bodies. During the Christmas recess he spoke on "Nationality and The Schools" before the joint meeting of sections H and L, American Association for the Advancement of Science, St. Louis. February 3 and 4 at Boston he read a paper on "The Intangible Rewards of Teaching", before the Boston University conference on the shortage of teachers.

Professor William H. Wood, college chaplain and head of the department of Biblical literature at Dartmouth, was one of the speakers at the seventeenth annual convention of the Religious Education association, at Pittsburgh, the week of March 21.

Among faculty activities during the Christmas recess was the attendance of Professor Henry T. Moore, head of the Psychology department at the Christmas meeting of the American Psychological association, Cambridge, Mass. Professor Moore read a paper on, "The Comparative Effect of Majority and Expert Opinion."