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are necessary to meet the needs of such students, and to 
press such amendments upon the local education authority 
with the view of remedying the defects indicated. (3) That 
the attention of the technological branch of the Board of 
Education be directed to the desirability of recruiting the 
staff of inspectors from those with experience in techno- 
logical teaching. 
By the will of the late Mr. John Daglish, Armstrong 
College, University of Durham, will eventually receive 
about 45,0001. After the payment of claims on the estate 
and certain legacies, the whole of the testator’s property 
is placed in the hands of trustees upon trust to pay the 
income to the testator’s widow during her life. Subse- 
quently soool. is to be paid to Armstrong College for the 
foundation and maintenance of a travelling fellowship in 
mining and the associated subjects to be called the 
““Daglish Fellowship.’’ As certain annuities successively 
fall in, the income is to be paid to Armstrong College for 
its general purposes, among which three, in the order 
mamed, are to have precedence, The first of these is the 
augmentation of the principal’s stipend to 15001. a year, 
the second is the augmentation of the stipend of the pro- 
fessor of mining to 800]. a year, and the third the augment- 
ation of the stipend of the professor of agriculture to a 
similar sum. When all the annuities have fallen in, the 
trustees are to hand over 30,000]. to the college to be 
invested for its general purposes. The income of the resi- 
‘due is to be paid to Armstrong College, to be applied 
‘as ordinary revenue, until the council of the college shall 
erect, as one scheme, further buildings costing not less 
than 20,000!., and shall have received from legacies or 
subscriptions 10,0001. applicable to such buildings. 
THE new buildings of the King Edward VII. Grammar 
School, at King’s Lynn, presented by Mr. (now Sir) W. J. 
Lancaster, were opened by the King and Queen on Monday. 
The Town Council of Lynn provided the site for the build- 
ings, which with the foundations cost more than 43,o00l., 
and include chemical and physical laboratories and lecture- 
rooms. In the reply of the King to an address of welcome 
presented by the Mayor of Lynn, the words occur :—‘‘ The 
occasion of our presence here to-day shows that you are 
not content with the traditions of the past, however worthy 
of remembrance those may be; but through the liberality 
of an old pupil of the school which bears my name, the 
new buildings of which I am now about to open, are deter- 
mined to keep abreast of the times, and are conscious that 
it is only by a thorough education that the younger 
generation can hope to prove successful in later life.’’ 
An address was also presented by the governors of the 
school; and the King read a reply, in the course of which 
he said :—‘* You are aware of the deep interest which I 
have always taken in the public institutions of the county 
of Norfolk and in all schools established for the purpose 
of imparting higher education. It is not easy to over- 
estimate the far-reaching benefits of the tuition obtained in 
such an institution as this. . . . You, as governors of the 
school, will, I feel sure, exercise the most solicitous care 
in the direction of the studies of your pupils, that they 
may be able to face the stress of life with an intellectual 
equipment such as will enable them to hold their own in 
the world and bear their part in its work and duties with 
efficiency and to the benefit of others; nor will, I feel con- 
fident, the higher teaching of morality, truth, and self- 
respect be neglected.”’ 
THE annual report of the council of the City and Guilds 
of London Institute for 1906 has reached us. In the last 
report the council directed attention to the financial posi- 
tion in which the institute had been placed by the reduc- 
tion of the contributions of the Corporation and the 
Mercers’ and Fishmongers’ Companies, but in the present 
report the council is able to state that the Corporation has 
reverted to its previous contribution of s5ool.—the amount 
in 1904 having been reduced to 4oo0l.—and has decided to 
contribute a similar sum for each of the following five 
years. The Mercers’ Company has also reverted to its 
original contribution of 2000]. The Vintners’ Company 
has increased its contribution, and the Saddlers’ Company 
has withdrawn conditions previously attached to its subsidy. 
The Fishmongers’ Company has yet to rescind its resolu- 
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tion to reduce its contribution from qoool. to 20001. The 
extracts printed in the volume from the examiner’s reports 
should be carefully read by teachers and students. Apart 
from the value of the suggestions and criticisms they con- 
tain, they afford an instructive insight into the mental 
capacity of the artisans, who are training to become skille” + 
operatives in many of the chief branches of industry. Th ” 
show very clearly where the preliminary education of the 
students is at fault, and the errors into which they most 
frequently fall. The council remarks that from the reports 
furnished by the examiners it appears that, on the whole, 
there is a gradual but distinct improvement in the 
character of the students’ work, and in the knowledge, 
intelligence, and skill which their answers and exercises 
display. 
An address by Prof. George H. Mead, delivered before 
the Chicago Chapter Sigma Chi in March last, is re- 
printed in Science for September 28. Prof. Mead states 
that science in the colleges of Chicago and other American 
universities has not the importance and popularity that it 
should have. This is due, it is said, to the freedom of 
choice of studies in the preparatory schools; the scientific 
courses are not selected by the children at a period when 
the concrete subject-matter of science properly presented 
should be immensely more attractive than languages and 
abstract studies. The science courses in the high school 
are not, Prof. Mead affirms, popular at the present time, 
nor is the money spent on them, whether in equipment 
or teaching staff, comparable with their educational import- 
ance. The result is that the majority of American students 
leave the universities without a grasp of the important 
achievements in modern thought, and without being able 
to interpret what they see, hear, and feel, by means of 
the splendid generalisations now known to the world. 
Prof. Mead explains the unpopularity of science in schools 
and colleges by the statement that scientific problems are 
no longer within the immediate experience of the student, 
and not always to be expressed in terms of that experience. 
In addition, he says, the natural sciences are not inter- 
connected in the minds of the students. Discussing the 
remedy for this misfortune, Prof. Mead thinks it lies with 
the schools, where children should be introduced to science 
in an intelligent manner. Until this is done the colleges, 
he maintains, should arrange introductory courses in 
science, in which the subject should be presented from 
the points of view of history and of a survey of the world 
of science as a whole. In this way, the address contends, 
the culture value of science would become clear and suitably 
esteemed. 
A RECENT article by Mr. J. L. Bashford in the West- 
minster Gazette provides an interesting description of the 
Berlin High School of Trade, or Merchants’ College, which 
was opened in the presence of the Crown Prince a few 
days ago. The college has been erected by the Corpor- 
ation of the Merchants of Berlin at a cost of about 
166,000l., and will be maintained entirely by the same 
body. The State has in this instance made no grant, nor 
did the idea of the college originate with the Education 
Department. This Berlin school is the only institution of 
the kind in Germany, and is intended for merchants. 
The aim of the teachers will be to give the students 
knowledge and a theoretical training. Lectures will be 
delivered on all subjects connected with the usances of 
trade—exchange, banking, Stock Exchange, gold and 
silver standard, investment of capital; the history and 
technique of certain branches of industry—e.g. electricity, 
machines and the textile industry, book-keeping, arith- 
metic and insurance, trade politics, political economy, 
statistics, social questions, the requirements of workmen 
in factories, the money market and its organisation in 
Germany, England, France, and the United States of 
America; civil law, commercial law, and every other form 
of law connected with trade relations; commercial geo- 
graphy and commercial history. Philosophical and art 
studies also find a place in the programme, and know- 
ledge of foreign languages as well as knowledge of foreign 
countries. The new college contains an aula, capable of 
holding about 600 persons, and nine lecture-rooms, some 
for forty and others for fifty, 100, and 150 students, as 
well as a laboratory for chemistry and one for physics. 
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