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that his work as a student must be carried much 

 farther than has hitherto been customary, if he is to 

 attack with success those problems which bring his 

 science close to reality and to the needs of the prac- 

 tical man. A Tripos in Economics has therefore been 

 established, the first examination for which was held 

 in 1905. The advanced portion of it includes such 

 subjects as modern methods of production, transport 

 and marketing, trusts, the recent development of 

 joint-stock companies, railway and shipping organiza- 

 tion and rates, banking systems, stock exchanges, 

 investment markets, international aspects of credit 

 and currency, tariffs and bounties ; and it is expected 

 that, as in the second parts of most other triposes, a 

 mass of new work, the result of current research, not 

 yet available in text-books, will be placed before the 

 students. 



The Medieval and Modern Languages Tripos dates 

 from 1886. It provides for the study of English, 

 French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Russian. A 

 colloquial test has recently been added. The Semitic 

 Languages Tripos was established in 1878; the 

 Indian Languages Tripos was founded in 1879, and 

 merged in the Oriental Languages Tripos in 1895. 

 The University founded a professorship of Sanskrit 

 in 1867; and a chair of Chinese has existed since 

 1888. The University possesses the finest Chinese 

 library in the world outside of China, the gift of Sir 

 Thomas Wade. Provision is made for the teach- 

 ing of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Hausa, Burmese, 

 and the Indian vernaculars of Bengali, Hindu- 

 stani, Marathi, and Tamil. The teaching of living 

 Oriental languages for the benefit of practical 

 students is carefully co-ordinated under a recently 

 appointed director of studies ; and not only are the 

 most necessar3^ languages taught in their living forms 

 by competent scholars, but these latter are assisted by 



