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Faculty Notes.

One of President Alderman's recent addresses
was delivered at Bristol, Va.-Tenn.,
on April 17, before the final session
of the conference of superintendents
of public instruction in Southwest Virginia.

On April 29, Professor Ormond Stone
went to Harrisonburg, Va., where he attended
a meeting of the board of visitors
of the new normal and industrial school
to be established in the near future at the
place named. Professor Stone has recently
been appointed on the managing
board by the Governor; and at the meeting
in question was made chairman of the
committee on courses of instruction.

Dr. John William Mallet, Professor of
Chemistry, has been awarded a pension by
the Carnegie Board, and will retire from
active service at the end of the present
session, after 38 years of distinguished
work in this university.

Dr. Richard Heath Dabney, Professor
of History, recently made a short visit to
Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, Va.,
where he served as a judge at an intercollegiate
debate held on the evening of
April 17.

Dr. Charles W. Kent, Professor of English
Literature, recently delivered two
addresses in Staunton, one on John R.
Thompson, at Stuart Hall; the other on
Tennyson, at the Mary Baldwin Seminary.

At College Hour, Saturday, May 9, the
leading address of the occasion was delivered
by Dr. Albert Lefevre, Professor
of Philosophy.

Professor W. H. Heck, Curry Professor
of Education, made an address at Memphis,
Tenn., April 24, before the final
session of the 1908 conference for education
in the South.

Dr. Bruce R. Payne, Professor of Psychology,
recently visited the Augusta
Military Academy, Fort Defiance, Va.,
and the city of Winchester, delivering
addresses at both places.

Dr. Charles H. Bunting, Professor of
Pathology, has resigned his position in
order to accept a chair in his alma mater,
the University of Wisconsin.

On the evening of April 13 the Colonnade
Club of the University gave a reception
to Mr. and Mrs. Bryce. Among other
distinguished foreigners present were
Prof. and Mrs. J. B. Bury, of Cambridge
University, and Mr. Indu Bhushan de
Majumdar, of Calcutta.