UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS.

White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 282, 18 December 1918, Page 10

UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS.

In Russia, before the war, Mine. Ostrovskaia was appointed Lecturer in Russian History at the Faculty of History and Philosophy in IV ograd, and was the first woman to hold a professional post at a Russian University. In France, Mb*. Holeykr and Mine. C urrie lecture at Paris University. In Germany the title of Professor was conferred on l)r. Fngel Reimcrs, of C'harlot',enburg ; Til. Curtuis is Lecturer in f rench Literature at Leipzig, and Frl. Render is Professor of Music at Charlottenburg. She is the first woman Professor of Music. In Italy, Signorina Mazzuchctte is tutor at Milan. In Switzerland, Lina Stern is Profesoi of Biological Chemistry. Australia has a woman <>n the Senate of N.S.W. University, and Victoria has Professor Sweet. In India, Professor llolmer. Professor of Physiology at the Medical College, Delhi, is .1 member of the* Sc ience Faculty of Punjab University . In Norway, Ellen Sleditsch is a University lecturer .it Kristiania, and Dr. Bonnevie is Professor of Zoology. Amsterdam has Dr. Postheemus as first “private docent’’ of Danish and Norwegian philology. Dr. Rhoda Erdmann, Lecturer in Biology at Vale, is the first woman lecturer in the United States of America.