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Prof. Count Morner 



We regret much to have to record the death of Prof. 

 Count Karl Axel Hampus Morner, Rector of the Royal Karo- 

 linska Institute, Stockholm, and President of the Nobel Medical 

 Committee, on the 30th March last. He qualified as a medical 

 man in 1884, and died at the age of sixty-two years. As Presi- 

 dent of the Nobel Medical Committee it was his duty to deliver 

 the introductory speeches on each successful candidate for the 

 Nobel medical prize, and his addresses were always an impor- 

 tant feature of the distinguished ceremony in Stockholm at 

 which the Nobel Prizes are bestowed by the King of Sweden 

 or his representative. He had a wide knowledge of medical 

 science, as was necessary in a person of his position, and 

 naturally kept in touch with all the newest developments of 

 that science. He was very fond of England and the English, 

 spoke our language very fairly well, and often visited England, 

 always taking care to see different portions of the British Isles. 

 He was one of the most distinguished foreigners at the cele- 

 bration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary in 191 2 

 of the founding of the Royal Society. In Stockholm he was 

 very popular among the students, and indeed with all classes. 

 He was gentle, genial, and kind to all, and of the best type of 

 a nation which is notoriously itself of the best type in the world. 



The Choice of our Rulers (Prof. J. Wertheimer, D.Sc.) 



This Empire is very largely governed by men who enter 

 the service of the State by means of the conjoint examination 

 for first-class clerkships and the Civil Service of India. For 

 the leading permanent officials in the great departments of 

 State, as well as our Proconsuls in India, are ultimately selected 

 mainly from the successful candidates. 



What is the nature of this examination, and to what extent 

 does it allow men trained in different ways to serve the State 

 in these capacities ? 



The results of the examinations in the two years immediately 

 preceding the war show that, except in rare instances, the key 

 to success in these examinations is the study of Greek and Latin. 



Taking the first-class clerkships, in 191 3 sixteen vacancies 

 were announced and the men who gained the first sixteen places 

 secured 19,320 marks for classics and classical history ; classical 

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