PRESIDENT MACLAURIN DEAD.

President Richard Cockburn MacLaurin of Massachusetts Institute of Technology died yesterday at 6.30 P. M. of pneumonia, after a sickness of five days.

President MacLaurin was educated in Scotland and New Zealand; he came to America in 1907 to act as instructor in Columbia University. In November, 1908, he became president of M.I.T. He ranked as one of our greatest educators.