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collection of mortuary objects in the Fitzwilliam 

 Museum ; and Assyriology, although the professor of 

 Assyriology at King's College, London, lives in 

 Cambridge, is wholly unrepresented. No provision 

 is made for the teaching of the Iranian dialects. 

 Altogether some 2,000 a year could well be spent in 

 Oriental languages alone. 



There is no chair of English literature in the 

 University. The professorship of Anglo-Saxon is a 

 recent endowment. By the exertions of the occupant 

 of that chair a sum of 2,100 has been collected, which 

 yields an endowment of 60 a year for an English 

 lectureship. To this small stipend the University adds 

 50 a year. It is not surprising that the distinguished 

 student who has so long occupied the post should at 

 last have been attracted to London by a higher 

 stipend. 



French and German are represented by two readers, 

 who in the last twenty years have taken a large share 

 in the development of a sound and growing school. 

 In the provision for the teaching of modern languages, 

 Cambridge ought not to be behind the northern 

 Universities ; and it is most desirable that professor- 

 ships should be established in at least French and 

 German. The University is indebted to a private 

 fund for a small endowment for the lectureship in 

 Russian and other Sclavonic tongues. This lecture- 

 ship should be made permanent; and lectureships 

 should be established in Spanish and Italian. 



As in the case of classics and mathematics, the 

 University teaching in history is largely supplemented 

 by the colleges ; but the Regius professor pleads for 

 an additional reader and two lecturers. A central 

 building with professors' rooms and lecture-rooms 

 and accommodation for the professorial library is 

 urgently required. 



The newly-established school of economics and 



