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erations, and, hence, demands at all times the 

 best that educators can devise in the way of 

 practical instruction. There is, however, a 

 supplementary type for this latter class of 

 pupils, represented in our day by the University 

 Extension movement, upon which Professor 

 Huxley spent a great deal of precious time. 

 He believed that the common people should be 

 taught something concerning the things with 

 which thev come in dailv contact, and that 

 their powers of observations should be awakened 

 concerning the vital forces of Nature. Accord- 

 ingly he undertook to give instruction by means 

 of lectures to intelligent workmen in Jermyn 

 Street, London, and to his own and everyone's 

 surprise soon found that these were exceedingly 

 popular. /The aim was to make his hearers 

 familiar with the simpler aspects of scientific 

 subjects. ^In doing this he would choose some 

 very common subject, a horse, a piece of chalk, 

 etc., and trace its growth and development in 

 so logical and simple a manner that even a 

 child could understand. These lectures were 

 subsequently bound up together and published 

 under the title "Physiography," and they exist 

 to-day as the plainest and most interesting ex- 

 position of natural phenomena in the English 

 language. 



universities: actual and ideal. 

 The actual and the ideal in university train- 



