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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY.


The Chemical Laboratory.

country for all the various callings for which an extensive scientific training, based upon liberal preparation is valuable and necessary.'

A CONFERENCE OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY TRUSTEES.

One of the most interesting features of the program at the University of Illinois was the conference of trustees of Amercan colleges and universities. The invitation to this meeting was itself a document of real educational significance as it outlined with clearness certain problems of deep concern for higher education in the United States. Thus it said: "In England the old universities are self-governing bodies, controlled largely by the faculties; in France and Germany they are departments of the government, and so far as they are not directly under the control of the government, they are autonomous, that is, ruled by the faculties. In the United States alone we felt it necessary to create a third organ, an independent, often self-renewing

The College of Agriculture.