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kinds, the greater is the pleasure which life can afford 

 him, the better can he contribute to the progress of the 

 world both by stimulating others and by himself pointing 

 out the way in which advances can be made. A university 

 has to think, not only of forming specialists, but of 

 making these specialists better by giving them a wide 

 range of knowledge, and still more of sending out men 

 who sustain the level of taste and insight in the whole 

 community and are fit to be its intellectual leaders. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 

 Cambridge. — A public meeting under the auspices of the 

 University Eugenics Society will be held in the new lecture- 

 room, Emmanuel College, by permission of the master 

 and fellows of the college, on Monday, May 22, at 

 8.30 p.m. The Rev. Prof. Inge, D.D., Dean Designate of 

 St. Paul's, will give an address on " Some Social and 

 Religious Aspects of Eugenics." 



O.XFORD. — The preamble of the Statute exempting 

 students in natural science and mathematics from examina- 

 tion in Greek passed Congregation on May 16 by 156 

 to 79. 



Lo.NDO.N. — Presentation Day was on Wednesday, May 10. 

 The Chancellor (Lord Rosebery) presided, and an unusually 

 large number of graduates were presented. A precedent 

 was established this year by the presentation of cadets of 

 the Officers' Training Corps who had gained War Office 

 certificates or proceeded to commissions in the Army. The 

 principal's report showed that the total admissions to the 

 University in 1910-11 were 4255, compared with 4053 in 

 the previous year ; internal students, 4350, compared with 

 4185 ; and total candidates in examinations leading to 

 degrees or diplomas, 12,681, compared with 12,787. The 

 number of degrees or diplomas granted was 1222. Refer- 

 ence was made to extension of university professoriate, 

 following the appointment of a large number of board of 

 advisors. Among individual benefactions during the year, 

 the most important were those of Sir Francis Gallon for 

 eugenics (40,000/.), Mr. Henry Dixon for scientific in- 

 vestigations (8000/.), Dr. Charles Graham for medical and 

 pathological research (33,500/.), and Sir Felix Semon for 

 laryngology (1040/.). The report also referred to the 

 notable development of student activities — military, 

 athletic, and social. Lord Rosebery, in a short address, 

 appealed for more adequate accommodation for the central 

 premises of the University and for increased financial 

 support from the authorities and city companies. 



It has been decided by the council of Armstrong College, 

 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to establish a professorship of philo- 

 sophy at the college, and to appoint an additional demon- 

 strator in physics. 



The Lancet announces the appointment, by the Lord 

 President of the Privy Council, of Sir Donald MacAlister, 

 K.C.I3., principal of Glasgow University, as his repre- 

 sentative on the International Committee for Post- 

 graduate Medical Instruction. 



Three scholarships in naval architecture have been 

 instituted at the University of Liverpool by the General 

 Comrnittee of Lloyd's Register of Shipping. Each scholar- 

 ship is of the value of 50/. a year for three years, and one 

 will hi- vamnt rinnunllv. The first election will take plnrr 

 (his \^ .-li . 



Two c.is-.b i>f impoilance to persons taking part in 

 competitive examinations were settled at the Bow Street 

 Police Court on Saturday last. The defendants were 

 tutors at a coaching establishment, and therefore debarred 

 from taking part in the examinations of the Royal Society 

 of .Arts. Notwithstanding their ineligibility, they duly 

 competed under assumed names and gained prizes. The 

 Royal Society of Arts, being anxious that their examina- 

 tions should be inviolate, and to make it clear to all that 

 people are not allowed either by the rules of the society 

 or the law to compete in examinations in a way which 

 is detrimental to other candidates, took action in the 

 matter, and they are to be congratulated on the result, 

 the defendants being found guilty and punished. 



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.According to Science, at its recent session the legis- 

 lature of Kansas voted approximately 200,000/. for the 

 State .Agricultural College at Manhattan for the next 

 biennium. The funds provide for one wing of an agri- 

 cultural building, with a detached laboratory for the 

 cutting and cyring of meats. The first wing of the new 

 building is to cost 25,000/. Two more wings are to be 

 added as the money is voted, each complete in itself. The 

 legislature also provided a special fund for various objects, 

 including money for experiments in the western part of 

 the State in cooperation with the Federal Government ; for 

 soil surveys, also in cooperation with the United States 

 Government ; for experiments in producing improved 

 wheat, corn, and other crops. The college has this year 

 approximately 2500 students, more, it is said, than are 

 enrolled in any similar institution in the world. The cost 

 per student in this institution in 19 10 was 21/. 



We learn from The Belfast News-Letter that the Library 

 and Technical Instruction Committee of Belfast contem- 

 plate making a collection of kinematograph films of educa- 

 tional value for public exhibition in that city. Mr. F. C. 

 Forth, the principal of the Technical Institute, a week or 

 two ago gave a very successful introductory demonstration 

 of the advantages of the kinematograph for teaching the 

 character of various operations and movements that 

 students may perhaps never be able to see for themselves, 

 and which are but poorly represented by the simple lantern- 

 slide. Among the films shown there were illustrated 

 metallurgical works, a visit to Niagara Falls, cheese mites, 

 a fresh-water hydra, rotifers, the circulation of protoplasm 

 in the water weed, the circulation of blood in a frog's foot, 

 chameleons feeding, toads fighting, and the development 

 of a flower. 



On July 14 the King will open the new buildings of the 

 University College of North Wales, which have been com- 

 pleted at a cost of about 112,000/., exclusive of the site, 

 which was presented by the citizens of Bangor. Of the 

 total cost, rather under 10,000/. remains still to be col- 

 lected, and the sums already received include 16,800/. 

 from Carnarvonshire, 18,350/. from London, 1350/. from 

 the staff, and 3500/. from old students. The quadrangle of 

 buildings, which is flanked on three sides by the class- 

 rooms and offices, has been completed on the fourth side 

 by the Great Hall specially presented by Sir Pritchard Jones. 

 The removal of the arts classes to the new buildings has 

 given increased accommodation to the science departments, 

 and among the gainers the agricultural and forestry 

 departments may be noted. That theory and practice are 

 not always inconsistent is evidenced by the large number 

 of prizes secured by the former department at agricultural 

 shows. 



The council of the Institution of Civil Engineers has 

 made arrangements to hold a conference on the subject of 

 the education and training of engineers on June 28 and 

 29 at the institution. The subject-matter to be discussed 

 at the ponference will be dealt with in three groups, 

 namely, general education, scientifR- iniining, and prac- 

 tical training. Among other topics which will receive con- 

 sideration at the meetings may be mentioned : — the extent 

 to which mathematical and scientific subjects should share 

 with other subjects of literate education the attention of 

 schoolboys who intend to enter later the engineering pro- 

 fession ; the question of specialised entrance examinations 

 for university and college courses of study in engineering 

 science with a view to the curricula to be followed, and 

 ,ilso of the inclusion in the latter of courses in modorp 

 languages ; the relation of practical training to college 

 study — whether, or to what extent, before, sandwiched, 

 or after its conclusion ; the position and uses of engineer- 

 ing laboratories in relation to education at college ; the 

 value of a university degree in engineering science in 

 relation to professional competence ; the requirements of 

 practical training in works, with the necessary comple- 

 ment of scientific study ; practical training in workshops 

 or on works of construction, with special reference to 

 training in the engineer's office; the relation of engineer- 

 ing employers and colleges from the point of view of the 

 practical training of college students ; workshop training 

 as a preliminary to practical training in other branches 

 of engineering. 



