SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. The thirty-fifth annual session of the School of Medicine opened on Thursday, October 3, at ten o'clock A.M., with the usual formal exercises in the school amphitheatre. The exercises were opened with an invocation by President William E. Huntington, after which Dean Sutherland made an address, which was followed by very interesting remarks and some good advice to the student body by Rev. William T. McElveen, Ph.D., of the Shawmut Congregational Church. President Huntington then extended the greetings of the University to the students, and gave a few words of special welcome to the incoming class. The Registrar, Dr. Frank C. Richardson, concluded the exercises by making the necessary official announcements. The new year at the Medical School opened with an encouraging outlook, the registration exceeding that of last year. The names of twenty-nine new students were enrolled, with a few more who were unable to be present at the opening exercises to be added later. The number in the Freshman class is double the number of last year's graduating class. The optional five-years course seems to have met the general approval of the student body. This approval is shown in a practical way, by two or three graduates now serving as hospital internes, or just completing the interneship, who wish to avail themselves of opportunities for extra work offered by the fifth year, and who have already entered their names as members of the fifth-year class.¡ During the past summer the Pathological Department of the school has been particularly busy. This department made an Exhibit at the meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society which equalled in size all other educational Exhibits combined, and not only attracted much attention, but received gratifying commendation. On request, the school also made a special Exhibit of pathological specimens at the meeting of the American Medical Association held at Atlantic City. As a result of such Exhibits one of the leading surgeons of Chicago sent an artist to the school to make drawings of certain specimens contained in the museum, to be used in illustration of articles which he is now writing. In order to exhibit to the best advantage his gelatin-mounted specimens, Professor Watters has had constructed inclined tables which extend around the walls of the museum. During the past summer Professor A. W. Weysse received his Doctorate in Medicine at Basel University, in Switzerland. It is interesting to note that Professor Weysse presented for his thesis "An Anatomical Physiological Study of the Chest by Means of the Chest Pantograph," utilizing the work he has done during recent years with his students in the Physiological Department of the Medical School. It is not to be overlooked that Professor Weysse's work was one of the potent factors which secured for the school the gold medals won at St. Louis, and Portland, Ore. The Medical Faculty is congratulating Professor Weysse upon the acquisition of this degree. Dr. J. E. Runnells (B. U. S. M. '06), of the Massachusetts State Sanatorium at Rutland, is taking a short postgraduate course in the Pathological Laboratory, devoting his time chiefly to opsonic work. Dr. S. Hamilton, of Pittsburg, spent four months in the Pathological Laboratory acquiring general pathological technique, and making special investigations. Recent Homer's Iliad, First Three Books. Edited for the Use of Schools by J. R. Sitlington Sterrett. This is a sumptuous addition to a series of notable text-books which represent the most advanced Greek scholarship. A striking feature of the text is the insertion of the Digamma. The uproar which followed Bentley's daring innovation finds but faint echo today, but we shall await with interest the result of this attempt to convince the American high-school boy that a letter which is to him little more than a linguistic ghost is a potent personality. The notes are truly exhaustive, as the editors say,215 pages of notes to 62 pages of Greek text. In diction they are delightfully lucid. The editor omits, doubtless as a result of personal experience in the classroom, the usual list of numberless crossreference which the student quietly ignores. The reader will find these notes sane, intelligible, and helpful to his understanding of the text. (New York: American Book Company.) Zion's Herald of September 18 has this to say of Pastoral and Personal Evangelism, a recent book by Rev. Charles L. Goodell, D.D., of the class of '77, College of Liberal Arts: "Dr. Goodell has a right to speak with emphasis and unction, in that he has increased his church at Harlem from 1,400 to 2,400 in two years, and for twenty-five years has never received less than a hundred souls, and never passed a single monthly communion without receiving some. It is a marvellous record. These pages show very fully the means adopted, the methods tried, the spirit cultivated, the price of power, the kind of preparation demanded, how to draw the net, how to work the Sunday school. It will be a help to very many, and will lead, we hope, to large ingatherings this coming fall and winter in many places." Price, $1.00, net. (New York: F. H. Revell Company.) Another recent book by Dr. Goodell is Pathways to the Best, with an introduction by Bishop Charles Henry Fowler. pp. 344. Price, $1.50. (New York: Funk and Wagnalls Company.) Books The work on Professor E. Charlton Black's new edition of Shakespeare is steadily progressing. Of the school edition, Julius Cæsar is ready; Macbeth, The Tempest, and A Midsummer Night's Dream will be out at Christmas. Of the Library Edition, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, and Julius Cæsar are already in type, and will soon be published. Mr. Everett W. Lord, 'oo, has prepared a manual of information for applicants for appointment in the public schools of Porto Rico. This manual, which is a model in its clearness of diction, its fulness of needed information, and the beauty of its typography, is issued by the Department of Education of Porto Rico. Messrs. Houghton and Mifflin announce a new book by Professor Borden P. Bowne. This new work, which bears the title Personalism, embodies the lectures which Professor Bowne recently delivered before Northwestern University on the "Norman W. Harris Foundation." The Open Court Company of Chicago is about to bring out an edition of Empedocles in English Verse, with Introduction and Commentary, by Mr. W. E. Leonard, '98, College of Liberal Arts of Boston University. This work had previously appeared, in part, in The Monist. Professor Arthur W. Weysse has just published, through Friedrich Reinhardt, Basel, Eine anatomisch-physiologische Studie des Brustkorbes vermittelst des Brust-Pantographen. Miss Sara Cone Bryant, '95, has just brought out, through Houghton, Mifflin & Co., a new book, Stories to Tell Children. This work is companion to her very successful book How to Tell Stories to Children. R. ALONZO R. WEED was born in Bangor, Me., Jan. 22, 1867. Weed, both of whom were natives of Sandwich, N. H. Mr. Weed's mother died when he was a lad of seven years; his father, who was widely known in the Boston business and religious world as the publisher of Zion's Herald and as a man of far-reaching influence in philanthropic and religious work, died in 1906. Mr. Weed's father moved to Newton in 1871, and the son has ever since resided in the house in Newton to which he was taken by his parents as a child. Mr. Weed received his early training in the public schools of Newton. He graduated from Harvard College in the class of 1887, and completed the law course in the Law School of Boston University, graduating from that institution in 1890. He was admitted to the Suffolk Bar in the year of his graduation from the Law School, and has practised law in Boston ever since, in partnership with his brother George M. Weed, under the firm name of Weed & Weed. Recently the firm has united with Mr. D. C. Brewer under the firm name of Brewer, Weed & Weed. The offices of the firm are at 113 Devonshire St., Boston. Mr. Weed has filled a number of important professional and political positions. From 1894 until 1902 he was Instructor in Equity in the Law School of Boston University, and since 1902 he has been Instructor in |