44 2 Lord Miluer and Imperial Scholarships 



proceeding to their home University, he furnished them 

 with a kind of education which had previously been denied 

 to them ; and I cannot doubt that broadening the outlook 

 of his own University was uppermost in his mind when he 

 made his will. No corresponding benefit would be con- 

 ferred on Colonial or foreign Universities by sending young 

 Englishmen to study there. The reactive effect of the pupil 

 on the teacher is possible only in Oxford and Cambridge, 

 where the tutorial relation between the teacher and the 

 taught exists in its highest development. 



The true complement of Rhodes's scheme is to furnish 

 the teachers at Oxford and Cambridge at the very beginning 

 of their career with outside experience of what is to be the 

 business of their lives. At present I suppose that at least 

 nine-tenths of the teaching staff at these Universities date 

 their start from the day when they were elected to a college 

 Fellowship. In Oxford and Cambridge the Junior Fellow 

 is the key to the situation. Yesterday his position was 

 indefinite, he existed on approbation ; to-day he is a Don. 

 The change is very sudden, and he must have time. As he 

 is now one of the managing body of the college it is of 

 importance that he should know by personal experience how 

 similar work is done in other countries, and there is no time 

 for acquiring this knowledge better than the first year of 

 his Fellowship. Absence from his college and University 

 for a year is then an advantage. At the end of it he 

 returns with greater authority than if he had continued his 

 former life without a break. It is therefore of the greatest 

 importance that he should use this critical year to the best 

 advantage. 



The only way to learn how things are done in other 

 countries is to go there and do them ; therefore the newly- 

 made Fellow should lose no time in entering himself at 

 a foreign University, not in the first instance to study the 

 subjects of his own fach, but with a view to study what- 

 ever subject brings him most in contact with the students 

 and the teaching staff. The subjects which do this best 

 are those which require work in a laboratory. It does not 



