Rome and Florence 1899-1900, and at the Sorbonne 1900-1903, where she received the "Certificat d'etude française", 1902. Miss Grace W. Mason, A. B., Smith 1902, has been appointed reader in English Literature. Miss Edith I. Brown, A. B., Smith 1900, has been appointed assistant in Astronomy. Miss Sue A. Blake returns to the department of Physics after the absence of a year. Miss Barrows returns to the department of Zoölogy as instructor after a year's study abroad. Miss Barrows held the American Woman's Table at the Zoological station at Naples. Miss Emily P. Locke, B. L., Smith 1900, has been appointed assistant in Botany. Miss Locke was a graduate student at Smith in Botany 1900-1901, at Teachers' College, in Columbia University, 1901-1903, taking the degree A. M. from Columbia University 1902. Miss Aida H. Heine, A. B., Smith 1903, has been appointed assistant in Geology. The department of Philosophy, instead of two elementary courses in Psychology, one a semester the other a year course, offers in agreement with the usage in other colleges but one general course of one semester for those beginning the subject; but extends through the whole year the advanced work. The year course in Psychology is therefore no longer an alternative in the option for the philosophical requirement. Professor Gardiner offers this year for the first time a course in Metaphysics, based principally on the study of Hegel's Logic. In the Aristotle course, the De Anima and Parva Naturalia are offered in place of the Metaphysica of last year. Professor Pierce, during the absence of Professor Garman, is giving a course in Psychology of three hours a week at Amherst College. President Seelye has been appointed a corporate member of the American Board, whose meetings he attended October 13, 14 and 15 at Manchester, N. H. President Seelye represented Smith College at the inauguration of John H. Finley as the president of the University of the City of New York, September 29. At the annual meeting of the Alumnæ Association, June 23, the following resolution was adopted by a unanimous vote: "We, the Alumnæ of Smith College, wish to express to Professor Stoddard our appreciation of his twentyfive years of service in the college. The college has had no better friend or more faithful worker." The degree of Ph. D. was conferred upon Professor Wood by Chicago University at the September convocation. Mr. Sleeper was made a Fellow of the American Guild of Organists last June, after passing the required examination in organ playing and composition. The examiners were Dudley Buck, George W. Chadwick and Samuel P. Warren. Professor Ganong in May was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Society of Canada, and in June a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Miss Scott attended the annual meeting of the Dante Society at the house of Professor Charles Eliot Norton in Cambridge, May 19. She was reëlected a member of the council of the society, toget her with Professor James Geddes of Boston University and the Rev. C. A. Dinsmore of Boston. Miss Berenson, on May 22, spoke before the New York Branch of Smith College Alumnæ on "The Present Aspect of Physical Training at Smith College". Miss Jordan will give a course of lectures on Modern Literature before the Woman's Club, Easthampton. The lectures will be given fortnightly, and will extend from October to March. At the meeting of the New England Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools, Boston, October 9 and 10, Miss Jordan delivered the opening address, "Influential Fallacies in Education". Professor Gardiner has been urgently requested by the editor of the new Library of Historical Psychology to prepare the volume on "The Feelings and the Emotions". The names of Stout, Dewey and Royce appear in the announcement already issued. The Evening Post, New York, of May 18, contains a note by Miss Scott on the most comprehensive book of war lyrics yet published, Mr. Francis F. Browne's "Bugle Echoes-a Collection of the Poetry of the Civil War, Northern and Southern ". The Archivio Storico Italiano for August has an article by Miss Bernardy entitled "Frammenti Sanmarinesi e Feltraschi"; the Nuova Antologia for September another, entitled "Roma e l'Italia nell' opera di F. Marion Crawford"; and Bollettino della R. Deputazione di St. Patria per l'Umbria, Vol. IX fasc. II, no. 25, a third entitled “Per la biografia di Mons. Constantino Bonelli ". The Harper's Magazine for October contains a story by Mrs. Lee, "A Town Guest". The Educational Review for May has an article by Miss Hanscom, "The Influence of Society on the College ". The Biblical World for May has an article by Professor Wood, "The Adult Class and Modern Biblical Scholarship"; the Congregationalist of July 8, another, entitled "What Shall We Do with Miracles?" an attempt to show the relation of historical Biblical criticism to the narratives of miracles in the Bible. "Economics and Politics in Maryland 1720-1750," by Mr. Sioussat, appeared in August as Nos. 6-7 of Series XXI. of the Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. The American Book Company has in press Milton's l'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, Arcades, and Lycidas, edited by Miss Jordan. Professor Gardiner has a review of Renouvier's "Problemes Metaphysique" and of Pitres and Regis' "Obsessions et Impulsions" in the Psychological Review for May, and a critical review of Hammond's "Aristotle's Psychology", in the Philosophical Review for May. The leading article in Popular Science Monthly for September is "Palm and Sole Impressions, and their Use for Purposes of Personal Identification,” by Professor Wilder. This paper gives a definite method of describing a given condition by means of numerical formula which may be readily indexed. The methods of Bertillon and Galton are described and compared with the palm and sole system. "The Plankton Algæ of Lake Erie" by Miss Snow appeared in August in the Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. This paper has a full account of fourteen species of fresh water algae new to science, discovered, named, and described by Miss Snow. 66 A work by Professor Ganong, entitled The Vegetation of the Bay of Fundy, Salt and Diked Marshes, an Ecological Study," is appearing serially in the Botanical Gazette, beginning with the September number. OLIVE RUMSEY. The Current Events Club announces the resignation from the presidency of Amy Stein 1904, on account of ill-health. Lucie Smith London 1904, has been elected president. The chairman of the Preliminary Dramatics Committee announces that owing to unforeseen circumstances the report of the committee will be deferred. The senior class wishes to announce the following elections: Toastmistress, Winifred Rand. Dramatics Committee: Chairman, Brooke van Dyke. Business Manager, Florence Homer Snow. Advisory Member, Margaret Linton Hotchkiss. Chairman of the Costume Committee, Elsa Katherine Levy. Oct. 7, 5 P. M., Lecture by Professor Campbell, Director of the Lick Observatory. Subject: The Motion of the Solar System through Space. 7 P. M., Sophomore-Freshman Reception. 8, Mountain Day. 10, Massachusetts Missionary Conference. 14, Dickinson House Dance. 17, Phi Kappa Psi Society. 24, Alpha Society. 31, Phi Kappa Psi Society. Nov. 4, Morris House Play. 14, Alpha Society. "What is the Self and what does it become?" Three pilgrims saw I, holding the same road, And thus they would appear, first three, then one ; These were the three: Body and Soul, and one Ceasing, at length, to strive to understand I asked them whence they came and whither went; A civil question, yet the churlish crew Forbore to answer; though I saw that one Might well have said, the dimmest of the three. The Soul, who only could be viewed askance ; For as a star the most remote and pale Will disappear under a direct gaze, So this dim member when reviewed alone, Would be as nothing there; but as I looked |