The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1905-08-16
NEWS LETTER FROM
UNIVERSITY Of WASHINGTON
Professor ColRey Goes East-Exten.
sion Work Successful - The
University Growing.

Seattle, Wash, Aug. 14.-Profes-
sor Alexander B. Coffey, formerly
professor Of pedagogy at the Uni
versity Of Washington, and resident
lecturer at the University of Wiscon-
sin during the past year, has been
elected professor of philosophy and
psychology at the College of William
and Mary, the second oldest univer-
sity in the United States. Professor
Coffey is we'll known in the North
west as one of the best popular lee
turers on psychology and pedagogy
in school circles. After leaving the
University Of Washington, he spent
two years in Stanford university and
one year at Columbia university in
study and investigation and ad-
vanced work along his special lines
Of psychology and pedagogy.
The success which marked last
years university extension work in
Tacoma has assured it's continuance
during the coming year and will ul-
timately result In other cities secur-
ing the same advantages. Several
cities are now asking that the plan be
put in operation there and it is the
intention to extend the system as fast
as the time of the university faculty
members will permit.
A large collection of beautiful and
interesting animals and plants has
been shipped to the University of
Washington from New York. This
collection is one secured by Profess
sor Trevor Kincaid of the University
as a result of his summers work in
the Bermuda islands and, upon ar
rival, he discovered a number of in
sects in Bermuda which were not
previously known to exist there.
The late Philo' Bennett. by his will,
set apart fund to establish a foun-
dtion in limited number of univer-
stiles in the country to provide a
prize to be awarded each year at
commencement time for the best es-
say by a student on the subject of
good government. The list of uni
versities was to be made out by the
Hon. William J. Bryan, executor for
the fund. The University of Wash
ington was selected as one of these
universities. The money has been
turned over to the regents of the
university and the first prize will be
awarded at commencement of 1906.
ioIu thC idtC OF ICo
re being received, the attendance at
the University of Washington this
fall will again exceed that of former
years by good margin. Registrar
Condor reports many communica-
tions from other states as well. one
days mail including inquiries from
Iowa, Ohio and Indiana.
The Pacific coast members of the
Kappa Sigma fraternity will hold the
first coast conclave of the fraternity
at Portland, Aug. Is and 10. In ad-
dition to alumni representatives, the
active chapters at the University of
Washington, University of Oregon,
University of California and Stanford
university will be represented.
The University of Chicago Press
has just issued reprint from the b.
tanical Gazette of an article published
in the July number of that magazine
by Professor Theodore c. Frye of the
Department of Botany at the Univer-
sity of Washington and Miss Eleanor
B. Blodgett. an alumna of the univer-
sity. The paper is the result of
study of the Apocynum Androsaemi-
folium, a flower of the morphology of
which has been comparatively I'M
known untu this time.