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year of his Fellowship at a foreign University and to study 

 there some subject which brings him into personal contact 

 with the students and teachers, as is found in a University 

 laboratory or atelier. A scheme for providing reasonable 

 augmentation of the Fellow's stipend during the first year 

 spent abroad is outlined which would provide the probable 

 sums required during a period of twenty years. The ad- 

 vantage to the College would be that after twenty years the 

 management would be in the hands of men familiar with 

 foreign methods and kept in touch with their variations ; and, 

 if all the Colleges adopted the system, the University would in 

 the same lapse of time become as up-to-date as the Colleges. 

 Although changes can be made at once by an Act of 

 Parliament, no real reform of a popular institution such as 

 a University can be effected in less time than the period 

 of a generation. 



No. 23. HISTORY IN HANDY VOLUMES. (From the Morning 



Post, October 2, 1912.) 446 



This letter was the closing unit of a series of contributions 

 by readers of the Morning Post on the subject of their 

 favourite reading. 



Its purpose was to recommend the practice, which I have 

 followed during my life, of always going to the fountain-head 

 for information about any fact of whatever kind which has 

 passed into history, whether it be civil or military, industrial 

 or scientific. 



The History of his own time by Frederick the Great and 

 the Gedanken und Erinnerungen of Bismarck give us the 

 facts at first hand about the creation of the Kingdom of 

 Prussia out of the Mark Brandenburg and that of the German 

 Empire out of the Kingdom of Prussia. 



Similarly, the Illustrated London News of 1854-55 give 

 us the facts at first hand of the Crimean War, a Military 

 Expedition which was full of instruction but of little else. 



A comparison is made between the service of news relat- 

 ing to the Crimean War in 1854 and that relating to the 

 present European War ; and the performance of the New 

 York Times is cited as an example. 



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