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NATURE 



[DECEMhl... __, :92j 



University and Educational Intelligence. 



Birmingham. — The degree of D.Sc. haa been con- 



frrrH on Mr. C. S. Fox for a thesis on "The Bauxite 



aii.l Almiiinoiis Liiteritc Occurrences of In<li;i." and 

 siip|iliiii<iiiiiry papers; and on Wx H M (Iridiths 

 to! I ilifsis on "The Phytop lies of 



liesli \\.itrr. and the Factors <1 Occur- 



rence and i I .li apers. 



CAMHKiiMih. — Mr. S. W. I'. S; been elected 



to a fellowship at Christ's Collet;' 



The secrctaryshii) of tin- Ho;nd oi Research Studies 

 has become vacant li\ tin- icMi^nition of Sir Geoffrey 

 Hiiil.r. now del ted ivpresentatu (• of the University 

 HI I '.II li.iniciit . \s ho li.is done vahi;d)lc work in steering 

 tin- I 111'- toi the I'h.D. degree successfully 



past ii i.d dillh nities. 



It i-^ iiiojjoat'd, sul)n< t to tho npprovnl of the 

 Statutory Commis.sionci -., to limit; all I lUMisity 

 oliicers appointed in tlic fiiuiiu uiukr sucli pension 

 scheme as sh.dl he adopted by the University and 

 approved by the Commissioners ; and further, for the 

 University to take powers to come to an agreement 

 with present holders of University offices whereby 

 they may come under the general pension scheme. 



It is proposed to admit to the privileges of affilia- 

 tion graduates of certain other inu\xrsitics who 

 have graduated with first-class honours witliout the 

 present restriction that they must have passed in 

 Knglish, mathematics, aiul Latin or Greek at one 

 of the examinations leading to their present degree. 



Edinburgh. — On Monday afternoon, December 

 lo, the Rt. Hon. S. M. Bruce, i'nine Minister of the 

 Commonwealth of Australia, visited the University 

 and received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. 

 Mr. Bruce was warmly received, especially by a 

 nuinber of Australian students, who formed a compact 

 section of the audience and who gave their distinctive 

 call. In a speech immediately following the ceremony 

 Mr. Bruce emphasised the great need they felt in 

 all the Overseas Dominions that men of university 

 training should take increasing interest in the affairs 

 of their respective countries. At no time in the 

 history of Great Britain or the Empire as a whole 

 had it been more imperative that they should have 

 these men, with all their traditional ideas gathered 

 in the university, to give of their services freely and 

 willingly to the country and to set a standard of good 

 citizenship. He appealed for renewed unity of the 

 people, and said that " a strong and united British 

 Empire is the greatest hope there is to-day for the 

 future peace of the world and for the happiness 

 and security of the whole of humanity." 



SHEFFiFT.n. The following appointments have 

 been made : Mi k. A. .Morrell, to be lecturer in 

 radiolog>^ ; .Mr. C. Wilkinson, to be lecturer in the 

 history of medicine ; and Dr. D. C. Barron, to be 

 assistant-lecturer in medicine. 



London. — The following doctorates have been 

 awarded : Ph.D. (Science) : Prabhatchandra Sar- 

 badhikari (Imperial College — Royal College of Science) 

 for a thesis entitled " Cytolog>^ of Osmunda and 

 Doodia — On the Somatic and Meiotic Mitosis of 

 Doodia — I " ; Mustapha Ahmed Abu Zahra (Imperial 

 College — Royal College of Science) for a thesis entitled 

 " The Mechanical and Graphical Solution of the Two- 

 dimensional Motion of a Cylinder of a General Section 

 in Viscous Fluid subject to Oseen's Approximation " ; 

 Hassan Sadek (University College) for a thesis entitled 



" Miocene Period in t*-- ^■••'* -* ">: ^ • -vpt. 



Ph.D. (Economics) : 1 i-loi 



School of Econoniics; . . ^ ..^ . ;>udg« 



Studies and the tfeasurement of Living Costs 

 Standards." 



Mr. E. C. Davies, a distinguished student of Pro! 

 R. M, Wild at the Universit\' of Manchester has beet 

 appointed assi^t.i lit I.-tu-' -lieNati 



Technical C<^>ll<t^e, iMirhan 



SiNCK ouv is>ue of Decembi 1 foUowinj* an 



nouncements of the election of rcpruscntati'. • 

 Universities in l^arliament have appeared : ' 

 Sir Char" m (U.) and Lord Hugh Cecil (L.) 



Wales- Mvies (Lab.). 



Applications are i : committee of th 



University College Ho^^u... io, ,,.c Radcliffe Crocke 

 travellin;.; scholar.ship in dermatology', theapproxi 

 mate value of wliirh is 280/., tenable for a t 

 twelve montiis. to he spent at some place 

 outside the United Kingdom. Further p.^ 

 may be obtained from the Dean, Universit>- CoUegj 

 Hospital Medical School, University Street, W.C.i, 



iiii .\eu \ Drk correspondent of the Times state 

 that Mrs. Montgomery Ward has given 3,ooo,oo< 

 dollars (about 660,000/.) to the North-Westem 

 Universit\-, riii( ai;o '-a medical centre a' 



the Uni\(..'Mi.\ to !< lie Montgomery VVar( 



Memorial. Yale Lnnersity has announced tha' 

 4,000,000 dollars (about 880,000/.) of the i5,ooo.oo< 

 dollars (about 3,330,000/.) left to it by the bequest 

 John W. Sterling will be used to erect a library. 



Recent progress in vocational education in Ameria 

 is described in the sixth annual report of the Ve<\--^^ 

 Board for Vocational Education. The enrol: 



iji .schools aided b}- the board has increased stea 



from 164,000 in 1918 to 475,000 in 1922, m 

 which year their total expenditures amounted to 12^ 

 million dollars. The outstanding feature of tliis 

 development has been the growth of the general 

 continuation schools. The main purposes of this 

 type of school are the same as those of the continua- 

 tion schools provided for b\- .Mr. Fisher's Education 

 Act of 1918. Of the 48 states, 43 now maintain part- 

 time schools for young persons who have left full-ti:ue 

 schools to go to work, and 21 have enacted state-%v 1 !e 

 mandatory or permissive part -time school l.i.v-. 

 Although the enrolment in schools of this type i. as 

 increased from 53,000 in 1918 to 228,000 in 1922, tiis 

 number is le-s than one-tenth of the boys and tiirls 

 14 to 17 years of age not attending school of any kind. 

 One notable aspect of recent progress in the vocational 

 school movement is its influence on the re'.jular puhhc 

 iLi\- schools: "There i-- a new spirit in elenienl.irv 

 education ; it is tiie spirit of attention to practical 

 needs." Conversely the outlook of the vocational 

 education programme is beinc broadened so as 

 include much more than sim; ific prepa 



tion " for the technical proce-- skilled 



Some idea of the extent to which enipluyers reco£ 

 the value of continuation schooUng may be gather 

 from the fact that at least 25 national associations of 

 employers have set up organised systems of training 

 for emplovees, some with endowments ranging from 

 2 to 10 miilion dollars. The Federal War Department 

 has developed an elaborate system of testing for 

 teaching trades in the Army, baised on a pohcy 

 fitting men not only for etfective military- ser\-ice bl 

 also for success in civ-il hfe. 



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