Mr. E. Wegmann Jr. will lecture before the engineering students of the University of the City of New York, Monday on "Masonry Dams."
Professor H. M. Petrie will hold the chair of Egyptology founded at University College, Oxford, by the will of Miss Amelia B. Edwards.
Two new portraits were hung in Memorial Dining Hall yesterday, one of Sir Richard Saltonstall, 1586-1658, the other of Gordon Saltonstall, 1856-1878.
Prof. Henry Drummond of Glasgow will lecture in Boston this spring on the Evolution of Man. His lecture will be given on the Lowell foundation.
The Phi Kappa Psi chapter of Madison has given up its charter and withdrawn from the fraternity and now appears under the name of Rho Kappa Upsilom.
John E. Hill, who has been engaged in sanitary engineering by the Brazilian government, has resumed his work as instructor of civil engineering at Cornell.
Dr. Hans Virchow of the University of Berlin, will have charge of the anatomical exhibits which the German department of education will send to the World's Fair.
Dr. G. Stanley Hall has just accepted the presidency of the congress of psychologists which will be held at Chicago during the last week in July, and will last a week.
The Rev. Arthur Brooks, D. D., of the Church of the Incarnation, N. Y. City, has written a Memorial article on the life and work of his brother, the late Phillips Brooks.
Dr. Benjamin Rand has been appointed Honorary Vice-President of the Columbian Congress of Rational Psychology, of which ex-President James McCosh is the president.
The second annual indoor exhibition of the Brown University Athletic Association was held Wednesday. The program consisted of jumping, tumbling, high diving, sparring, wrestling, fencing, pyramids and work on the parallel and horizontal bars. The class contest in squid drill was won by the freshmen, the trophy being a silver cup.