A brief history is given of the rise and of the influence on 

 industries of experimental researches in the German Universities. 

 Research Universities realise better than other institutions Carlyle's 

 idea that "the end of man is an action not a thought." 



Ample freedom of study and research, both for teachers and 

 for students, is what is most required in a University. 



Prof. Senier concludes thus : " If we desire to rival the work 

 of the German Universities, we should seriously attempt the better 

 organisation and coordination of our entire educational system. 



One might imagine a trunk railway with stopping-places and bran- 

 ches. The trunk line might represent pure science, literature and 

 philosophy and be always extending itself further; the stopping- 

 places to where the scholars or students branch off to apply their 

 training to livelihood occupations. Where exactly these stopping- 

 places should be placed should be fixed after careful deliberation. 

 Most would branch off for arts and crafts from the primary school 

 most of the remainder would branch off after the secondary school ; 

 a small proportion would enter the University, branching off for 

 the professions at places decided upon. 



Encouragement to enter the University should only be given 

 after careful consideration. Far too many men nowadays are pain- 

 fully struggling against Nature in the University, to the detriment 

 of the occupations for which Nature really equipped them. Even 

 in the German Empire only 13 out of every 1000 of the male 

 population enter the University." 



Instruction in Agriculture at the University of Oxford. 



(The Journal of Board of Agr.\ Lond., Dec. 1909, n. 9, p. 749). 



" One of the most recent additions to the list of institutions 

 providing instruction in agriculture is the University of Oxford, 

 which, in 1907, definitely recognised Agriculture or Rural Economy 

 as a subject of study within the University. 



" Agricultural education had, indeed, received some recognition 

 in the University more than a century before, when, in 1796. 

 Dr. Sibthorp, then Professor of Botany at Oxford, bequeathed land 

 worth about 200 a year for the endowment of a Chair of Rural 

 Economy. The Sibthorpian Professorship, as it was called, was, 

 however, practically amalgamated with the Professorship of Botany, 

 and from 1796 to 1884 it was never held independently. In the 

 latter year Sir Henry Gilbert was appointed to the Sibthorpian 



