MACALESTER COLLEGE, Saint Paul, Minn., a coeducational institution, founded in 1885 under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church. A four-years' college course leads to the degrees of bachelor of arts and bachelor of science, and a conservatory of music grants the degree of bachelor of music. The average an nual enrolment of students is 360, and its faculty 38. Its total endowment is $558,000. It has seven buildings and total resources of $960, 000. Its library has over 15,000 bound volumes. Its total income (tuition and endowment in terest) is $60,806.
McALL (ma-kal') MISSION, a Protestant association founded in 1871 by Robert Whitaker McAll and his wife for religious work among the working people of France. On 17 Jan. 1872 the first station was opened in BcUe ville, one of the manufacturing suburbs of Paris. The work consists largely in striving to interest people in the questions pertaining to salvation of souls and then urging them to affiliate with some one of the nearby Protestant churches. No effort is made by the mission to establish churches, but some educational work has been begun in the large cities. Friends of the movement in America founded an Ameri can McAll Mission in 1883 with Philadelphia as headquarters, and there are also auxiliary societies in Great Britain and Canada. It was a McCall missionary who introduced the Boy Scout movement into France. During the Great War its agents served as chaplains and in other capacities, and its establishments were con verted into hospitals. The expense of the work in France in 1916 was $60,000.
McALLISTER, Addams Stratton, Amer ican engineer: b. Covington, Va., 24 Feb. 1875. He was educated at the Pennsylvania State Col lege and at Cornell University. In 1898 he be came electrical engineer for the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company and in 1899 held a sim ilar position in the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. In 1901 he was as sistant in physics in Cornell, instructor in 1902 °3 and acting assistant professor of electrical engineering there in 1903-04. He also was lec turer on engineering at the Pennsylvania State College in 1909-14. In 1905 he became associate
editor of the Electrical World and in 1912 was made full editor of this publication. In 1917 he became secretary of American Engineering Service of Engineering, a member of national lighting committee of the Advisory Commission of Council of National Defense and also a member of the War Committee of Technical Societies. In 1914-15 he was president of the Illuminating Engineering Society, afterward becoming its chairman and secretary. He is also president of the New York Electrical So ciety. Cornell gave him the degree of Ph.D in 1905. He is the inventor of alternating-current machinery. Dr. McAllister has contributed more than 100 articles on engineering to various technical journals and is the author of 'Alter nating Current Motors' (1906; 3d ed., 1909), and 'Standard Handbook for Electrical Engi neers' (1907). He is a member of a number of clubs and societies, including Engineers' Club of New York and the New .York Southern So ciety.
McALLISTER, Ward, American society leader: b. Savannah, Ga., about 1830; d. 1895. He came of a family several of whose members were conspicuous at the bar. With his father, in 1850, he went to California, where he re mained two years, and whence he removed to Newport, R. I, and afterward to New York City. Becoming possessed by marriage of a considerable fortune he was able, by means of influential connections through his mother and wife, to enter into social life with the advan tages of personal qualifications and family prestige. As a raconteur as well as an accom, plished gourmet he had already attained prom inence within a select circle when, by a well turned remark, he became the leader of leaders in New York society, which, according to his strict limitation, included but 400 persons. The popular expression "The Four Hundred" orig inated from this assertion of McAllister's. He made contributions to the press, which, how ever, impaired rather than strengthened his unique position, as did also his volume
McALLISTER, Fort. See FORT MCAL