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NATURE 



[February 4, 19 15 



for the Consular Service. At the present time Eng- 

 land is generally represented abroad by a foreigner 

 whose first interests naturally are not British. What 

 we require is that every Consul representing British 

 interests should be an Englishman specially trained 

 for the service, with a full knowledge of British trade, 

 and ready and able to place British interests first. 



A Liberal Education Necessary. 



Our travellers, managers, agents, and responsible 

 clerks in connection with all branches of industry 

 should be properly trained. They should complete a 

 course of study applicable to their particular calling, 

 including modern languages for commercial purposes, 

 commercial arithmetic, book-keeping and accounts, 

 commercial practice, geography and history of com- 

 merce, economics and commercial law. At the same 

 time it cannot be too strongly urged that opportunities 

 must be provided for education apart from the purely 

 utilitarian form. 



The period between fourteen and eighteen years of 

 age is a vital period during which the youth should 

 have the opportunity of fitting himself for livelihood 

 and for life. He should have the opportunity of 

 learning in the fullest sense his trade or i)usiness and 

 of developing those faculties of mind, body, and spirit 

 that would enable him to fulfil his duties to his neigh- 

 bours and to the nation. The school course should, 

 therefore, offer beyond the purely technical or com- 

 mercial subjects other subjects of a liberal character. 

 The youth is not merely a wage-earning industrial or 

 commercial ; he is a human being, and his education 

 and training should enable him to occupy his leisure 

 time to good advantage. 



Responsibility of Education Officials. 



A responsibility rests upon us as education officials. 

 It is for us to see that the educational needs of the 

 nation are really appreciated, and that the fullest 

 educational opportunities are provided for all. If we 

 rightly do our part there should arise in England an 

 industrial army and a commercial armv capable of 

 maintaining for our country that industrial and com- 

 mercial supremacy which is vital to a nation so 

 situated as we are. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



Cambridge. — The Cambridge Review has just pub- 

 lished the names of the past and present members of 

 the university who are serving in some capacity in 

 the King's Forces. The number amounts to 7,237, 

 and the}' are distributed amongst the colleges as 

 follows: — Trinity College, 1,840; Pembroke, 760; 

 Gonville and Caius, 616; Clare, 535; King's, 436; 

 Jesus, 385; Emmanuel, 371; Christ's, 359; St. John's, 

 337; Trinity Hall, 328; Magdalene, 214; Queen's, 

 179; Sidney Sussex, 154; Peterhouse, 140; Downing, 

 126; Selwyn, 125; St. Catherine's, 117; Corpus 

 Christi, 109; Fitzwilliam Hall, 90; Honorary Gradu- 

 ates, 16. With one or two exceptions the numbers 

 run parallel with the sizes of the colleges in normal 

 times, and the list is, with these exceptions, in much 

 the same order as the colleges would be classified if 

 they were arranged on a basis of the number of 

 students. 



The General Board of Studies has appointed Mr. 

 K. J. J. Mackenzie, of Christ's College, Reader in 

 Agriculture. 



London. — ^Two appoir/ments to the university pro- 

 fessorships were made by the Senate on January 27. 

 Dr. Edward Barclay-Smith, of Cambridge, succeeds 



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Prof. Waterston in the Chair of Anatomy at King's 

 College, and Dr. E. P. Cathcart, of Glasgow, suc- 

 ceeds Prof. Leonard Hill in the Chair of Physiology 

 at London Hospital Medical College. 



The D.Sc. Degree has been granted to the follow- 

 ing : — Mr. E. L. Kennaway, Guy's Hospital, for 

 physiological chemistry; Miss Ethel N. Thomas, Uni- 

 versity College, for botany ; Mr. J. Kenner, East 

 London College, for chemistry; and Mr. J. Kenyon, 

 external student, for chemistry. 



The Hon. R. C. Parsons succeeds Prof. Cormack 

 as one of the representatives of the university on the 

 governing body of the Imperial College of Science 

 and Technology. 



Manchester. — At a meeting of the Court of the 

 University held on January 27 Sir Henry Miers, 

 F.R.S., was appointed Vice-Chancellor, in succession 

 to Prof. Weiss, whose resignation takes effect in 

 September. The nomination of Sir Henry Miers had 

 previously received the unanimous approval of the 

 Senate and Council. Since the resignation of Sir 

 Alfred Hopkinson arrangements have been made to 

 lighten the administrative duties of the Vice-Chan- 

 cellorship, and it is hoped that in the appointment of 

 a distinguished man of science to this office additional 

 strength may be given to the advanced teaching and 

 research work of the University. A proposal will 

 shortly be brought forward to establish a professor- 

 ship of crystallography, to which the new Vice-Chan- 

 cellor will be appointed. 



Oxford. — The friends of the late Mr. Arthur Elam 

 Haigh, sometime fellow of Hertford and fellow and 

 tutor of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, will have 

 beard with regret of the death of his elder son, Lieut. 

 Charles Roderick Haigh, Adjutant of the 2nd Battalion 

 Royal W'est Surrey Regiment, who was killed in 

 action in Belgium on November 7. Lieut. C. R. 

 Haigh has left several large bequests to educational 

 and charitable objects, among them being the estab- 

 lishment of a scholarship at Corpus Christi College 

 and another at Leeds Grammar School, both in 

 memorv of his father. There are further bequests to 

 Winchester College, to the Oxford Preparatory School, 

 to Oxford Temperance and Surgical Aid Societies, and 

 to his old regiment. 



The University has adopted a series of decrees 

 allow a certain relaxation of the regulations concern- 

 ing the keeping of terms and payment of dues in the 

 case of those of its members who are serving in the 



It is announced in the issue of Science for January 

 22 that Pomona College, Claremont, Cal., has com- 

 pleted the collection of an endowment fund of 20o,oooZ. 

 towards which the General Education Board contri- 

 buted 3o,oooZ. ; also that Mrs. Russell Sage, who had 

 undertaken to give 2o,oooJ. towards a ioo,oogZ. dining 

 hall for Princeton University, has increased her offer 

 to 50,000^, provided an equal sum is -collected by 

 July I. .Sums amounting to 15,000/. have been sub- 

 SQribei^. 



Commenting upon an article in the January issue 

 of the Technical Journal of the Association of Teachers 

 in Technical Institutions on the Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology in Nature for January 21 (vol. 

 xciv., p. 580), .we rem"nded our readers that in this 

 well-known college there is a continual weeding out 

 of those students who do not display the requisite 

 ability and application. W'e might have added that 

 this plan is common in American institutions of 

 higher education, and is adopted in many of our own 

 technical colleges. In the faculty of engineering of 

 the ^University of Bristol, for example, Prof. J. 



