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FTuLY 29, 1920 



The council has instituted an Appointments Board 

 for the purpose of supplying students at the end of 

 their University career with information about vacant 

 appointments. Mr. W. R. Grist has been appointed 

 the first secretary of the board. 



Mr. G. C. Steward has been appointed assistant 

 lecturer in applied mathematics. 



London. — Mr. V. H. Mottram has been appointed 

 as from September i, 1920, to the University chair 

 of physiology tenable at King's College for Women 

 •Household and Social Science Department. He is 

 at the present time head of the Animal Nutrition 

 Laboratory at Messrs. Lever Bros. 



Dr. W. S. Lazarus-Barlow has been appointed to 

 the University chair of experimental pathology at 

 Middlesex Hospital Medical School. Since 1903 he 

 has been director of the Cancer Research Laboratories 

 at Middlesex Hospital. 



Dr. J. C. Drummond, lecturer in physiological 

 chemistry at University College, has been appointed 

 as from September i, 1920, to the University reader- 

 ship in that subject. 



The following doctorates have been conferred by 

 the Senate r^D.Sc. in Botany : Miss Kate Barratt, 

 an internal student of the Imperial College, Royal 

 College of Science, for a thesis entitled "A Contribu- 

 tion to our Knowledge of the Vascular System of the 

 G«hus Equisetum." D.Sc. in Chemistry: Mr. E. E. 

 Turner, an internal student of East London and 

 Goldsmiths' Colleges, for work carried out for 

 British Dyes, Ltd., and the Ministry of Munitions. 

 D.Sc. in Experimental Psychology : Mr. G. E. 

 Phillips, an internal student of Universitv College, for 

 a thesis entitled "Mental Fatigue." D.Sc. in Mathe- 

 matics: Mr. G. B. Jeffery, an internal student of 

 University College, for a portion of a thesis : Part ii., 

 "The Motion of a Viscous Fluid," and part iii., 

 "Whittaker's Solution of Laplace's Equation." D.Sc. 

 in Physics: Mr. G. D. West, an internal student of 

 East London College, for a thesis entitled "The 

 Forces Exerted on Surfaces Exposed to Radiation." 

 D.Sc. in Zoology: Mr. F. J. Wyeth, an internal 

 student of King's College, for a thesis entitled "On 

 the Development of the Auditory Apparatus in 

 Sphenodon punctatus." 



At the last meeting of the Senate of the University 

 the question of the acceptance of the Government's 

 offer to provide a site at Bloomsbury was again under 

 discussion. A letter was considered from the Presi- 

 dent of the Board of Education stating that the 

 Government was prepared to continue to be 

 responsible for maintenance, rates, etc., in respect 

 of the new University headquarters buildings, and 

 also, when the time comes for King's College to 

 vacate the existing premises in the Strand, to ask 

 Parliament for authority to purchase the buildings 

 at a fair valuation. The Senate was, however, un- 

 able to make a similar offer in respect of the building 

 at present occupied by the University at South 

 Kensington, which (unlike the King's College build- 

 ing) vvas not erected from funds raised by the Uni- 

 versity. Eventually the Senate resolved: — "That, 

 while recognising and welcoming the desire of the 

 Government to assist the University, the Senate, in 

 view of the important issues involved and the un- 

 certainty as to the nature of the offer in many respects, 

 desire time for further consideration and consultation 

 with the Government; and that the Government be 

 requested to keep their offer open to allow time for 

 such further consideration." 



The following appointments have been made at 

 King's College : — Dr. J. A. Hewitt, lecturer and 

 demonstrator in physiology ; Dr. O. Inchley, lecturer 

 in pharmacology ; Mr. J. E. Hadfield, lecturer in 



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psychology ; Mr. C. S. Salmon, lecturer in physical 

 chemistry; Mr. H. W. Cremer, lecturer in inorganic 

 chemistry ; Mr. W. Partridge, lecturer in chemistry 

 (Public Health); Mr. H. T. Flint, lecturer in 

 physics; Miss C. W. M. Sheriff, assistant lecturer in 

 mathematics; and Mr. L. D. Stamp, demonstrator 

 in geology. 



Mr. J. Hicham, senior physics master at the 

 Durham Johnston School, has been appointed lec- 

 turer in physics and electrical engineering in the 

 University of Manchester. 



Mr. E. Rawson, head of the engineering depart- 

 ment of the Portsmouth Municipal College, has been 

 appointed principal of the Municipal Technical Insti- 

 tute, West Bromwich. 



Mr. S. Mangham, lecturer in botany at Armstrong 

 College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, has been appointed to 

 the chair of botany at the University College of 

 Southampton. 



In Pamphlet No. 8 just issued by the Bureau of 

 Education, India, Mr. L. T. Watkins deals with 

 "Libraries in Indian High Schools." The pamphlet 

 gives a useful list of selected books, and provides 

 excellent suggestions as to the principles which should 

 govern the choice and classification of volumes for 

 school libraries. Its usefulness should not be limited 

 to India ; librarians of schools in the United Kingdom 

 and in other parts of the Empire would find it well 

 worth reading. The pamphlet is published by the 

 Superintendent, Government Printing, Calcutta, and 

 the price is four annas. 



The address of Sir E. Sharpey Schafer, of Edin- 

 burgh University, on "The University Problem," 

 delivered at Cardiff in January last, and now issued 

 in pamphlet form, deals with a question of grave 

 importance to the educational, and therefore to the 

 social, productive, and political well-being of the 

 nation. Sir Sharpey Schafer pleads for a wider out- 

 look and a clearer vision of the needs of higher educa- 

 tion of the university type. He deprecates the idea 

 that universities must find their location in large 

 cities, and pleads for the open air and the country- 

 side as involving far less expense in both sites and 

 buildings, which latter he would plan so as to be of 

 not more than one or two stories in height. In 

 support of his contention he cites the cases of London 

 and Edinburgh, to which may be added those of other 

 cities in the North of England. The ideal environ- 

 ment for a university, he claims, is an academia, 

 a place for undisturbed work whence the sights and 

 sounds of the city are excluded. He alludes to the 

 campus surrounding many an American university, 

 extending from a hundred acres to space to be 

 reckoned in square miles, which often constitutes one 

 of the most beautiful features of the city in which it 

 is situate. Why should not London with its seven 

 million residents have as many university centres 

 as Scotland, Sweden, Ireland, or Yorkshire with far 

 smaller populations? The universities ought to find 

 their financial support in the State, since the educa- 

 tion thev give is essential to its welfare and an asset 

 of first-rate value. There should be no restriction 

 to the entrance of the genuine, well-qualified student, 

 no matter whence he comes. Original research should 

 be fostered, and only teachers capable of it appointed. 

 The pursuit of new knowledge is essential. The 

 argunients set forth in furtherance of the claims of 

 university teachers and the statements adduced in 

 their support are worthy of serious attention at the 

 present critical time. 



