Green, Colonel H. G. Prout, Mr. Theodore H. Skinner, Mr. George W. Tillson, and Mr. Albert L. Webster retire.

FELLOWSHIPS

Mr. Gorham P. Stevens of the class of 1898 retains the Swett Fellowship, and is continuing his studies in Paris. His admission to the École des Beaux-Arts as twenty-third out of sixty candidates shows the high quality of his work.

The Savage Fellowship has been awarded to Mr. Paul L. Price of the class of 1900, who is continuing his architectural studies at the Institute.

STATISTICS

A review of the usual statistics of the President's report draws attention to certain points of interest. The total number of students, which has remained nearly constant for seven years, is now increased by 99, the increase being about equally divided between the first year and special students. The increase in the fourth year is offset by the nearly equal falling off in the third. The comparison by courses shows gains in Mechanical, Mining, and Chemical Engineering, losses in Civil Engineering and Chemistry. This classification does not, however, include either first year students or specials. The number of five year students is the same as last year, thirty-five. The number of students registered for mathematical subjects reaches the unprecedented total of 844, while physics with 793 is a good second. All the States and Territories represented last year are still included, with the addition of Arkansas and the Hawaiian Islands. Bermuda replaces Dutch Guiana among the foreign countries. Of the total increase of 99, fifty-three come from Massachusetts, the State's representation declining by one per cent. The number of Massachusetts towns and cities represented is increased, however, by from III to 135. Ninety-nine college graduates are registered against eighty-one last year, seven holding the Institute degree, twenty-three that of Harvard, five of Brown, three of Amherst. The number of women students has declined from fifty-three to forty-five. 312 applicants have en

tered on entrance examinations, 176, a notably large proportion, on certificates of previous college work, or to higher standing on examination, or without examinations by reason of age, previous experience, etc.

The table of graduates now shows a total of 2,314, without change in the relative numerical order of departments, except that Naval Architecture with forty-three graduates has now overtaken Natural History-Biology with thirty-nine.

NEW RULES

In view of the extent to which students have come to delay making up their deficiencies, the following rule has been adopted by the Faculty:

All marks of D are required to be removed at a date to be determined by the respective instructors, but not later than eight weeks after the beginning of the next school year following the imposition of such marks. In case a mark of D is not removed at the date thus determined, the student shall be required to drop any dependent subjects and cease to be regarded as a regular student.

All failures and other deficiencies remaining in the case of fourth year students who seek to become eligible for the degree are required to be made up at a date not later than the beginning of the second term of the fourth year except in the case of those which have been incurred during the first term of the fourth year and in subjects which from the character and arrangement of the work can be pursued only in the second term.

Another change of rule is designed to secure better enforcement of the elective entrance requirement introduced two years since:

Any candidate who has not previously presented a satisfactory elective shall be required at entrance to designate the subject in which he shall pass off the requirement. Such work shall be done during the first term of the first year, shall be outside of regular studies, and shall involve a final examination; but any student may be excused on the ground of excellence of regular work in the same subject. If the elective is not made up at the end of the first term, the deficiency shall have the same effect as a D in any other subject not made up at the proper time.

A slight change in Course VI. introduces a course on the Propagation of Electric Waves, by Professor Clifford, alternative with

Mr. Blodgett's course on Railroad Signals; and in Course IX. third year students have the opportunity to substitute Industrial Electricity in place of Heat.

NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND PREPARATORY

SCHOOLS

By invitation of the officers of the Institute the annual meeting of the New England Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools was held at the Institute October 13 and 14. President Eliot of Harvard University presided; and the programme included addresses by President Hadley of Yale, President Faunce of Brown, Professor McDonald of Bowdoin, and others, on educational questions of general interest. An evening reception afforded welcome opportunities for better acquaintance between members of the Institute Faculty and of the Association, and the general success of the meetings, as a whole, was highly appreciated.

PARIS EXPOSITION

As stated in the last report, the Institute was requested by the officials of the United States Commission for the Paris Exposition to be one of two institutions for exhibiting higher education in engineering and architecture in the United States. The Executive Committee authorized the necessary expenditure, and a committee of the Faculty carried out the preparation of the exhibit.

The amount of space allotted to the Institute was at first so limited that an effective exhibit was deemed out of the question; but by the courtesy of Director Rogers a special assignment of hanging space on an important façade was made, which permitted an effective display of large architectural designs. The remainder of the exhibit consisted chiefly of photographs of a standard size, exhibited in winged frames, and of portfolios with text and photographs illustrating the work of our Engineering Departments. Liberal use was made of the various Institute publications, and effective aid was rendered by Institute graduates connected with the Massachusetts Commission or resident in Paris.

Besides this main exhibit, special collections of minerals and other building stones were made through our Department of Geology, the material being collected from all parts of the country by Professor Crosby and Mr. Fuller, and coming into the possession of the Institute at the close of the Exposition. The Institute shared through the Department of Economics in the preparation of the exhibit of the Massachusetts State Board of Health.

During the summer several members of the Faculty visited the Exposition, and brought back pleasant reports of the success of our share in it.

HONORS AT PARIS

Official notification has been received of the award of a grand prize for the Institute exhibits in class six, group one, Special Industrial and Commercial Education; of a gold medal in class three, group one, Higher Education; of a gold medal in class four, group one, Special Education in Fine Arts, Buildings, plans and models, arrangements, fittings; also of a silver medal for the exhibit in class sixty-three, Systematic Collection, ornamental stones, hard stones or building stones, rough hewn, sawed, or polished. The Exposition having closed, a portion of the Institute material has been donated, on request, to the Musée Pedagogique. The remainder is expected to be returned, and will be of use in connection with the exhibit at Buffalo. The register of visitors at the exhibit was, unfortunately, appropriated by one of them.

The Institute has learned by cable that the Department of Beaux-Arts and Education of the French government desires to own and place in the École des Beaux-Arts a number of the large framed drawings exhibited at the World's Fair in Paris by its Department of Architecture.

This is a great distinction, and a tribute to the value of the work of the oldest School of Architecture in the United States.

The Exposition authorities may be supposed to have given an excessive number of medals with the generous desire of acknowledging those who had aided them in their success, but it is an

entirely different matter when the State makes its choice of works for its museums of education. The French government has little desire to further cumber their museums and collections, for even their storerooms are full of distinguished works. It may be well said a priori that, when it selects anything at the present day, the object must have a decided value.

The competent special committee appointed by the Minister of Beaux-Arts and Education, and charged to make a choice of the best things of the Exposition, have in this case recognized officially the quality of work and the spirit of the method followed at the Institute. In asking for these drawings, it has paid the highest honor ever rendered to a foreign institution and one of which the friends of Technology have just right to be proud.

CANE RUSH

Readers of the REVIEW will have learned from the newspapers of the tragic ending of the cane rush between the first and second years students on November 14. Departing somewhat from the custom of previous years, the President had arranged for the general suspension of the exercises, and took pains to be present at the games. The story of the death of Hugh Moore need not be here repeated, but the presence of President Pritchett and his prompt assumption of responsibility for all later steps that could be taken were most fortunate. No more impressive meeting of Institute students has ever been held than that addressed so fittingly by him on the following day in Huntington Hall; nor has a more pathetic tribute ever been given to a student than by the classmates of young Moore, who followed his body silently past the Institute buildings to the railroad station, and who stood with bared head while the train bore it into the darkness, toward its final restingplace. The President's statement through the newspapers a few days later is so important in its bearings upon the policy of the school as to be repeated in full:

"As I remarked in my brief talk to the students on Friday, when they assembled in Huntington Hall to arrange for the funeral of their dead comrade, that