5 8 4 ENGLISH EDUCATION 



Church of England, 225 (for 69.322 pupils) Wesleyan, 1,075 (for 375, 535) Roman Cath- 

 olic, and 12 (for 9,863) Jewish. The parliamentary grant for elementary education was 

 11,445,055, the additional amount provided by rates and borough funds being i 1,635,- 

 725; for higher elementary the receipts were 1,129,699 from parliamentary grants, and 

 1,857,955 from rates and borough funds. 



It was announced on November 28, 191 1, that Sir R. Morant, who had been secretary 

 and chief permanent official of the Board of Education since 1903, had been appointed 

 Chairman of the new Board of Commissioners under the National Insurance Act. He 

 was succeeded at the Board of Education in 1912 by Mr. W. A. Selby Bigge. 



On July 2-5, 1912, a congress of the universities of the empire was held in London, 

 under the chairmanship of Lord Rosebery, Lord Curzon, Lord Rayleigh and Lord 

 Strathcona. Fifty-two universities were represented. It was resolved to establish in 

 London a bureau of information concerning the universities of the empire. 



In local educational circles some of the principal events of 1910-12 may be noted. 



Oxford University. The question of the continuance of the study of Greek by mathe- 

 matical and science students has been much discussed, and at a large meeting of Convo- 

 cation it was decided in the affirmative by a great majority. The preamble of a statute 

 making Greek optional in Responsions was rejected however by 188 votes to 152 at a - 

 Congregation on November 22, 1910. The new buildings of Oriel College, provided by 

 the munificence of Cecil Rhodes, were opened on September 28, 1911, and form a new 

 feature of High Street, opposite St. Mary's Church. The Union Society new buildings 

 were opened by Lord Curzon, the Chancellor, on June i, 1911. He also inaugurated 

 some new buildings at Lady Margaret Hall on October 22, 1910. A new electrical 

 laboratory presented by the Drapers' Company of London was handed over to the 

 University on June 22, 1910. The front of Christ Church has been restored. The 

 Principal of Brasenose, Dr. C. B. Heberden, D.C.L.,was elected Vice-Chancellor in 1912 

 in place of the President of Magdalen, Dr. T. H. Warren, D.C.L. A new financial 

 board for the University has been formed. Mr. Falconer Madan, senior sub-librarian, 

 was recommended in June 1912 by the curators of the Bodleian Library to the office of 

 Bodley's librarian, vacated by the death of Mr. E. B. Nicholson. The Prince of Wales 

 entered Magdalen College as an undergraduate in October 1912. 



The millenary of the city of Oxford was celebrated at the beginning of July 1912, 

 when a historical exhibition was collected, the city entertained members of the university 

 and others, and degrees honoris causa were conferred upon the mayor and the town clerk. 



Cambridge University. During 1911 Mrs. Butler, widow of A. J. Butler, Fellow of 

 Trinity College, presented to the library a valuable collection of the early editions of the 

 works of Dante. Mr. E. W. Hunnybun presented his unique collection of drawings of 

 the flowering plants of the British Isles. Mr. J. Willis Clark, late Registrary of the 

 University, bequeathed to the library his valuable collections relating to the town, coun- 

 ty, colleges and university of Cambridge, including his manuscript collections. .Sir 

 Harold Harms worth's offer to found a professorship in English literature took shape 

 during the Michaelmas term of 191 1 ; in February 1912 Dr. A. W. Verrall was appointed, 

 and on his death Sir A. Quiller Couch, the novelist (" Q ") was chosen professor in 

 October. Following a promised anonymous donation of 125 for ten years towards the 

 stipend of a Reader in Modern History, the readership has been established. A new 

 lecture rooms building was completed and brought into use in the year 1911-12. A 

 munificent offer of the Drapers' Company to provide a physiological laboratory was 

 accepted by the Senate, and the erection of the building was begun; with this is connect- 

 ed a laboratory of experimental psychology. 



Other Universities. In the new buildings of Birmingham University at Bournbrook, a 

 statue of King Edward VII (the gift of the pro-vice-chancellor, Alderman F. C. Clayton) 

 has been erected to commemorate the opening of the buildings by his Majesty and Q ueei1 

 Alexandra on July 7, 1909. These buildings include departments of mining and metallurgy, 

 mechanical engineering, chemistry and physics, together with foundries and other plant for 

 experimental purposes on an unusually complete scale, and an experimental mine. There 

 is also a large hall and library, and the buildings (from the designs of Sir Aston Webb and 



