1903-04 Volume 28 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

THE SCROLL. totThe new physiological laboratory built for the Universityof California by Mr. Rudolph Spreckels, of San Francisco,was dedicated on August 20. Dr. Wilhelm Ostwald, thefamous chemist, came from Leipzig, Germany, to give thededication address, and there were addresses by PresidentWheeler and Dr. Jacques Loeb.Richard Strauss, now playing in this country, was recentlymade an honorary Ph. D. by Heidelberg University. Inrecognition of this fact, his last work, 'Taillefer,' is to haveits first performance at Heidelberg. Brahms was made adoctor at Breslau and when he wrote his Academic FestivalOverture he dedicated it to that university.Dr. Frederick W. Putnam, Peabody professor of Americanarchaeology and ethnology in Harvard University, hasaccepted a call to the chair of anthropology in the Universityof California. The duties of the chair are of great importance,as the university, through Mrs. Hearst's aid, isexpending some $40,000 per annum in anthropologicalresearch.Principal Story recently said before a meeting at GlasgowUniversity that Andrew Carnegie's gifts to Scotch educationalinstitutions have 'dried up the local springs of generosity.'While in the past it was easy for him to collectmore than $300,000 for the university, now it is difficult forhim to get $15,000. He says Mr. Carnegie's munificencehas scared away other givers of lesser wealth.The 150th anniversary of the founding of Columbia Collegewill be celebrated next October. The celebration willbe purely academic in character. A series of conferences orlectures by a small number of eminent foreign scholars willbe delivered at the university before the officers, advancedstudents, and such scholars from other American institutionsas may be present. One day of anniversary week willbe given over to the students, and all exercises on that daywill be planned and conducted by them.It is reported that Harvard University is to receive a bequestof four million dollars from the will of Gordon Mc­Kay, who was the inventor of the shoe sewing machinewhich brought about effective changes in the manufactureof shoes, p.nd made millions for the originator of the plans.Mr. McKay was a near friend of Prof. Shaler, of Harvard,