October 21, 1920] 



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The new session of the Aristotelian Society will be 

 inaugurated on Mondav, November 8, at 8 o'clock, 

 when the president. Dean Inge, will give an address 

 on -Is the Time Series Reversible?" The meeting 

 will be held in the Conference Hall of the L niversity 

 of London Club, 21 Gower Street, W.C.i. 



Kkke public lectures on physic will be delivered 

 bv Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones at Gresham Col- 

 lege. Basinghall Street, E.C.2, at 6 p.m., on 

 November 8, 10, n, and 12. The subjects of the 

 1. ctures will be "The Air We Breathe," "The Houses 

 We Live In," "The Clothes We Wear," and " I he 

 Food We Eat." 



TllK British Medical Journal for October ib states 

 that the L^niversity of Heidelberg has received 5(X),(X)o 

 marks from Herr F. Behringer, of Bielenfeld, for 

 the erection of an institute for the study of the 

 ( hemical constitution of albumin. Until the institute 

 U completed the researches will be carried on in the 

 phvsiological institute under the direction of Prof. 

 Kossel. 



Wk learn from School Life for August 15 last that 

 Mr. .Vugust Heckscher, of New York City, has given 

 VK..rxx) dollars to Cornell University to maintain pro- 

 fessorships of research and to provide facilities for 

 -rientific work. The persons selected for such posi- 

 tions will be relieved of routine teaching and adminis- 

 trati\e details in order that they may be free to 

 devote themselves to scientific investigation and to 

 the training of future investigators. 



0.\ October 18 the report oi the Higher Education 

 ^ub-Committee on London University was adopted 



I a special meeting of the Education Committee of 

 the London Countv Council. Mr. H. C. Gooch said 

 that, having obtained an assurance from the President 



f the Board of Education that acceptance of the 

 lUoomsbury site for the headquarters of the Iniver- 

 ^ity would not close the door against grants from 

 Tr'easurv sources towards the building ami equipmt^nt 

 of the liew premises, the Sub-Committee felt justified 

 in recommending the Education Committee to ask 

 the Council to make a conditional building grant, 

 lie moved: "That, subject to satisfactory arrange- 

 ments being made between the Government and the 

 ( ouncil of King's College for the reinst.itement of 

 King's College on the proposed Bloomsbury site, and 

 ill the •v.nt of the University of London accepting the 

 ■-ite in Bloomsbury referred to in Mr. H. .\. 1-. 

 fisher's letter dated April 7, 1920, and provided that 

 adequate grants are made by the Government for the 

 erection of administrative buildings on the new site, 

 the Council is prepared to ronsi<ler an application for 

 :i building grant for this purpose subject to the condi- 

 tion that the Council's contribution shall not exceed 

 (ine-third of the contribution made by the Government 

 in respeit of expenditure not exceeding i,ooo,(xW., 



ind that the Council be recommended accordingly." 



I he resolution was adopted by eighteen votis against 



live. 



Iiii ^ M < . \ I niversities Committee, of which Dr. 

 I). H. S. Cranage is chairman and the Rev. B.'isil .\. 

 Neaxlee secretary, has issued an admirable educa- 

 tional handbook for the guidance of si-cretario and 

 for providing suggestion* for the building up of local 

 .ducal ional programmes for the various branches of 

 the Y.M.C.A. accordlnjj to their respective need.s. 

 There has l)e<n established with this object an educa- 

 tion department at the headquarters of the asso- 

 riation, i.i Russell Square, W.C.i, from which 

 furfhei- advice and guidance can l)e obtained. It 

 is proposed to ♦•stablish throughout the kingdom 

 divisional areas connected with the local branches 

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of the Y.M.C.A., each with its educational com- 

 mittee representative not only of the members, but 

 also of the local educational activities, whether official 

 or voluntary. The movement is chiefly concerned with 

 the supply' of adult education, the emphasis upon 

 which should lie largely with non-vocational subjects 

 such as religion, history, sociology, science, literature, 

 the arts, and physical education, the technical and 

 vocational studies being offered only when other educa- 

 tional agencies fail to provide them. It is earnestly 

 advocated that one of the greatest needs of our country 

 to-day ts a democracy with the power to think and.to 

 form' judgments, people who have the country's wel- 

 fare at heart and are prepared to take their place as 

 citizens, understanding clearly the implications and 

 duties of citizenship. Having this purpose iii view, 

 the National Council has asked the universities and 

 other bodies co-operating with the association in its 

 war-time educational work to continue to .send repre- 

 sentatives to form the Y.M.C.A. Universities Com- 

 mittee, and the response has been cordial and coin- 

 plete. a body being formed comprised of eighty-five 

 members representative of all the universities and the 

 university colleges of Great Britain and other volun- 

 tar\ agencies. Well-defined lecture and tutorial 

 courses upon a variety of subjects arc arranged, 

 including philosophy, history and geography, litera- 

 ture, art. religion and morals, economics, music and 

 the drama, and .suggestions for correspondence groups, 

 for the formation of libraries, and for suinmer and 

 week-end schools are offered. 



From the Pioneer Mail for August 13 last we 

 learn that an extraordinary meeting of the Senate of 

 .Allahabad University was held on August 7. at which 

 Sir Harcourt Butler. Chancellor of the I'nivcrsity. 

 presided. In opening the debate, the Chancellor said 

 that the policy in the United Provinces for high<;r 

 education was the development of a number of uni- 

 versities of the unitary, residential, and teaching 

 type. The first steo in this direction was ihc estab- 

 lishment of an institution on these lines at Lucknow. 

 and a Bill had been prepared and published which 

 aimed at putting into force the recommendations of 

 the Lucknow I'niversity Conference. The, second 

 step was that the line betw<-cn university and school 

 teaching should in future be drawn .-it the inter- 

 mediate stage. This involved the re-organisation of 

 secondary education. To this end it was proposed to 

 establish' a Board which would sup<T.sedo the existing 

 Sch<x)l-leaving Certificate Board, and be en- 

 trusted with the task of providing the preparation 

 I for university work now given in the intermediate 

 classes of the college, and of developing a system of 

 high secondary education. Th<' third step to be 

 accomplished was the re-orfianisation of .\llahabad 

 University. It should l>o diyide<l into two parts, one. 

 internal, being a self-contained unitary, residenti.il. 

 and teaching university, and the other, external, con- 

 sisting of aflfiliated outlying colleges. In conclusion, 

 it was pointed out that priinary, s«condary. and 

 technical education would not be iii any way retarded 

 by lack of finances should the schemes for university 

 reform be .idopted. .\ discussion followed, and the 

 .Senate passed a resolution, moved by fir. Sapru. 

 approving the general scheme for establishing a uni- 

 versity at Lucknow, but reserving its opinion as to 

 details. Motions were also passed b\ which the draft 

 Bill for the establishment of a Board for Hich School 

 and Intermediate Education, and the renort of fh<» 

 coinmitfee on the re-organisati<in of .Mlah.-Uind I ni- 

 versity. should be referred to a Select Committee. 



Is Bulletin No. 50. i«)t«). of the I'nitrd States 

 Bureau of Education nn account is given, of the 

 condition of jtcience teaching in the schcoU of 



