VOL.5, NO. 12
LOCAL ACTIVITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES
the section a t the close of the meeting. The first annual scholarship award for the highest scholarship in freshman chemistry was presented t o Homer Deadman of Falls City, Nebraska, a t a public meeting of the Rho chapter of Phi Lambda Upsilon the evening of November 22nd. Aside from the personal medal the winner has his name carved upon the Phi Lambda Upsilou Freshman Scholarship Cup. Doctor Fred Upson, chairman of the department of chemistry, gave the address of the evening upon "How Discoveries in Science Are Made." All freshman chemistry students were especially invited t o the meeting. Colorado State Teachers' College. A series of radio talks on popular science were given over radio station KFKA of the Colarado State Teachers' College on December 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, 1928. These lectures were sponsored by the chemistry department of Greeley, Colorado, High School and were so arranged as t o be of interest to both city dwellers and farmers. They treated the subject of chemistry in a non-technical manner. It is hoped that this series of talks will stimulate in both ~ r a and l urban districts, a greater interest in every-day chemistry and the part it plays in every activity of mankind. Teachers' College, Columbia University. Two new trustees of Teachers' College, named November ZZnd, are: M. Gordon Neale of the University of Missouri (alumni representative); and Owen D. Young of the General Electric Company and of the Radio Corporation of America.
Ninth Annual Ohio State Educational Conference. April 4th. 5th, and 6th are
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the dates of the Ninth Annual Ohio State Educational Conference a t Columbus. "Evaluating education" will be the keynote of this three-day meeting conducted by the College of Education a t the Ohio State University. Each year the atLast tendance materially increases. year's gain of 335 pushed the number who took part in the three general and 38 sectional meetings t o more than 4800. Since 1923 the attendance has practically doubled. T o extend the "conference" idea, allowing group interests to have even wider consideration, Friday and Saturday forenoons and Friday afternoon will he given over t o sectional group meetings. General sessions will be held Thursday and Friday nights only. The customary Saturday morning general session will give way t o sectional meetings. Groups admitted t o the Conference for the first time will be represented this year by sections concerned with adult education, higher education and attendance supervisors, school nurses, and visiting teachers. In addition t o the three new grouus . . mentioned, one or more sectional meetings will be given t o problemsof groups interested fi biological science, city superintendents, clinical psychology, commercial education, county superintendents, educational and intelligence tests, elementary principals, elementary teachers, English, geography, high-school principals, history, home economics, industrial and vocational education, journalism, junior high-school principals, kindergarten and primary teachers, Latin, mathematics, modern language, music, non-biological science. parent-teacher association, physical education, religious education, school husiness officials, schwl librarians, special education, teacher training, and village and consolidated school superintendents.
Austrians Make Gas from Lignite. Gas for fuel and illuminating purposes can be made satisfactorily from lignite, recent experiments a t Marburg on the Drau in Styria indicate. This work is being watched with much interest by Austrian engineers and industrialists, because up to the present Austria has had to import high-grade anthracite far its gas-works.-Science Service
