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 This photograph, taken on the summit of Mount Washington twenty years ago, shows Professor Hugo Kronecker, the distinguished physiologist of the University of Berne, whose recent death is deplored by many students throughout the world, feeling the pulse, at that time intermittent, of Professor Henry Pickering Bowditch, of Harvard University, long the leader of physiology in the United States.

—It is announced that the British universities will open as usual in the autumn, though about half the students have enlisted in the army. The Rhodes scholars from the United States and from the British colonies are expected to be in attendance at Oxford.—It is said that all German universities will be closed.

future the distribution of the Nobel prizes will take place on June 1 instead of in December, as hitherto. The next distribution has been fixed for June 1, 1915.