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mcnt of the School of Agriculture, In • 

 with a scheme that has been afn'ee<l "! ''<^ 



Coqwration and the Director of the IMani iMv...iijg 

 Kcsvarch Institute. 



Prof. C. K. InghB. Prof. 13. M. Jon«». and Prof. 

 G. I, Taylor have been appointc<l as mcnihcni of a 

 committee to make recotnm<-ii<I..ti.iiis t., th. Tmslces 

 of the Kdward Jiusk Sti 



Mr. E. G. D. Murray, 'l>e 



Medical Research Council and lormcrly on the stall of 

 the War Office Central Cerebro-spinal Fever libera- 

 tor)', has been elected to a fellowship at Christ's 

 College. 



Liverpool. — Applications are invited for the 

 Campbell Brown chair of industrial chemistry. The 

 porson appointed will be required to devote his time 

 to research work, with a certain amount of advanced 

 teaching on the chemistr>' of oils, fats, and waxes 

 other tnan mineral. Applications must reach the 

 Registrar of the University before March i next. 



London. — Applications are invited for the Quain 

 professorship of^physics, tenable at University College, 

 in succession to Sir William Bragg. They should 

 reach the Academic Registrar, University of London, 

 South Kensington, S.W.7, by, at latest, January 3. 

 AppUcations are also invited for the University 

 readership in statistics at the London School of 

 Economics. The latest day for the receipt of appHca- 

 tions by the Academic Registrar of the University is 

 January 4. 



St. Andrews. — An interesting experiment is to 

 be tried in the institution by the University Court of 

 a series of courses of lectures to be held in University 

 College. Dundee, for the convenience of the managing 

 and clerical staff of the L. and N.E. Railway or of 

 other railways. The first course to be carried out 

 is that in railway law, Mr. James Allison having been 

 appointed lecturer. It is intended later to hold 

 courses in railway economics, railway geography, and 

 railway operating. 



The following have been elected as representatives 

 of the Universities in Parliament : — Cambridge : Sir 

 Geoffrey Butler (U.) and Mr. J. F. P. Rawlinson (U.) ; 

 London : Sir S. Russell- Wells (U.) ; Combined 

 English (Birmingham, Bristol, Durham, Leeds, Liver- 

 p)Ool, Manchester, and Sheffield) : Sir Martin Conway 

 (U.) and Mr. H. A. L. Fisher (L.) ; Combined Uni- 

 versities of St. Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and 

 Edinburgh : Rt. Hon. Sir H. Craik (C), Sir G. Berry 

 (C), and Mr. D. M. Cowan (L.) ; Queen's University, 

 Belfast : Col. T. Sinclair (U.). 



The Bradford Technical College may shortly become 

 a constituent college of the University of Leeds. It 

 originated in weaving and designing classes at the 

 Bradford Mechanics' Institute in 1877. The main 

 building, finished in 1882, includes lecture rooms and 

 laboratories of departments of chemistry, dyeing, 

 engineering, architecture and building, biology, 

 mathematics, and physics. A textile block, opened in 

 191 1, includes a practical dye-house, finishing shed, 

 special dyeing research laboratory, and a power house 

 specially arranged for demonstration and experimental 

 purposes. Since 1920 there have been added a new 

 engineering block, specially equipped for advanced 

 work and research on internal combustion engines, 

 and union buildings with refectory and common 

 rooms and athletic grounds. 



The provision of ten post-graduate scholarships 

 for the session 1924-25 for overseas students at the 



! Imperial College of Science and Tf" » ' -v. SouUi 



Kensington, h^ been announced. I iimaster, 



chairman of tl'- .'/.vormtKr Uwlv of ,,. t»^/i,u 



the offer to t 



behalf of " 1 , 



purpose and luty of the College, the <■ 



educational 1 m in Great Britain on 



foverning Ixxly of which are represent 

 )ominions and India, and it has been at' 

 scholarships will be each of the value of 30*^^. 

 will l)e available for university students of 

 the Dominions of Canada, Australia, New / 

 South Africa, and of India. No conditions h 

 laid down as to the selection of scholars, tl 

 left entirely in the hands of the Prime Mii 

 the Dominions and of the Government of India. 



Contact between the Secondary School and ' 

 community it serves is, according to the report of • 

 West Riding Education Committee for 1922-2^. ■ 

 spicuous by its absence, the prevailing local 

 being that these schools are primarily, if not 

 intended to produce teachers — this, notwitli 

 that in fact less than 20 per cent, of the pni 

 the teaching profession and notwith^' 

 efforts made to secure recognition by - 

 the " First " and " Second " examination->. In i 

 nexion with these efforts some headmasters have, s.i', -, 

 the report, interviewed local chambers of cr' 

 and have modified their school curricula in th- 

 information thus gained, in order to brin^ 11. 1 . 

 closer relation to local industries. The commit!- <• 

 recently permitted its inspector in charge of second.;: \ 

 education to visit the United States for the purp>o^t < <{ 

 studying American schools. In that countrv m 

 attention has, of late, been devoted to pronv 

 operation between the school and the local in : 



The twelfth annual conference of Educational 

 Associations will be held on January' i-ii, at Uni- 

 versity College, Gower Street. London, W.C.i, un<i r 

 the presidency of Sir Henrj' Hadow. The presiden • 1 i ! 

 address on "The Claims of Scholarship" will i ■ 

 delivered on the first day of the meeting by Sir Hci;: . 

 Hadow. In all, some forty associations concern ■ 

 directly or indirectly with education w4ll be hold. ..^ 

 meetings and conferences. Among the papers a: i 

 lectures to be given are the following, the \mA\ 

 responsible and the date being given after the author s 

 name in each case : " The Value of Psycho-Anah>i-^ 

 to the Educator," by Miss Barbara Low (Montesscri 

 Society, January i) ; " The Sun and Stars," by Sir 

 Richard Gregory (School Nature Study Union, Jaii;:- 

 ary 2) ; " Modem Developments in Education and \\\v 

 Outlook for the Future," by Mr. J. Howard Whii. - 

 house and others (Society for Experiment an! 

 Research in Education, Januan,- 3) ; " School I\< - 

 form," by Prof. J. J. Findlay (King Alfred Sclu. I 

 Society, January 4) ; " The Teaching of Hygiene and 

 Racial Progress," by Mrs. Hodson (Eugenics Educa- 

 tion Society and Ling Association, Januarys 4) ; " Hand- 

 work and Life," by Mr. E. Young (Educational Hand- 

 work Association. January- 5) ; " Recent Advances m 

 the Relations of Psycho-Analysis to Education," by 1 >r. 

 J. Glover (British Psychological Society-, January 7 ; 

 " Light and Life," by Sir Henry Gauvain (Association 

 of Teachers of Domestic Subjects, January 8) ; " The 

 Question of an International Language," by Prof. 

 F. G. Donnan (International Language (Ido) Society, 

 January 9). An exhibition by pubhshers of book.s. 

 maps, etc., has been arranged as in former years, but 

 the exhibits will be placed in the College Memorial 

 Hall where there is more room for an adequate dis- 

 play. Scientific and kindergarten apparatus, etc., 

 will form a separate exhibition. 



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