September 19, 1918] 



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to .1" all thaf: in him lies to aid production during 

 this ti . and to assist those direct!) engaged 



in the work of production, whether it be the manu- 

 factures or agriculture. And those who have ii in 

 their power to strengthen the chemist's hands in such 

 a work will them 10I onlj aiding the State, 



but also assisting to bear up the loft) principles 

 for the maintenance of which amongst men Britain 

 and her Alii. -- are conti nding. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



As effort is being made l>> the New York University 

 to raise a fund to meet the war emergency condition-. 

 Pai of the plan is to secure an endowment of 

 100,000/. for the engineering school in connection 

 with a co-operative scheme- of education between the 

 industries and the University. So far the sum of 

 5 1, >/. has been received. 



The new session of thi s n John Cass Technical 

 Institute, Aldgate, London, commences on Septem- 

 ber 23. The courses of instruction which have been 

 arranged are directed especially to the technical train- 

 in- of those engaged in trades connected with the 

 deal, metallurgical, and electrical industries. 

 Full facilities are available for qualified persons who 

 de-ire to undertake special investigations in connec- 

 tion with these branches -of industry. Among the 

 sp< i ial courses of higher technological instruction 

 which form a distinctive feature of the work of the 

 institute may be mentioned analytical work in fuel 

 and gas analysis, courses on brewing and malting and 

 on the micro-biology of the fermentation industries, 

 and, in the department of metallurgy, courses oi an 

 haractei on gold, silver, and allied metals, 

 on iron and steel, on metallography and pyrometry, 

 and on the heat treatment and mechanical testing of 

 metals Detailed information concerning 



the work of the institute is given in the new syllabus, 

 of which may be obtained on application. 



THE summer school of civics and eugenics, which 

 was organised conjointly by the Civic and Moral 

 Education League and the Eugenics Education 

 Society, and held at Oxford from August 10 to 31, 

 wa- very successful, the programme being compre- 

 hensive and attractive, and thi courses and meetings 

 well attended. A prominent feature of the school was 

 ics and eugenics exhibition. The exhibits showed 

 on the civic side- the possibilities of regional study with 

 a view to civic service as a part of the school and 

 college work, and on the eugenii side gave illustrations 

 of recent work in heredity and the study of family 

 \n exhibit from the National Council of 

 Venereal Diseases was also shown. The following 

 public lectures were delivered : "The Principles of Co- 

 ion," Mi-- A. Woods; "The Three Voices of 

 Nature," Prof. J. Arthur Thomson; "The Socio- 

 logical Bearing of Race-study," Prof. H. J. Fleure; 



lb- Influence of Finance on Social Reconstruction," 

 \Y. Schooling; "The Eugenic and Social Influence 

 of the War." Prof. Lindsay; "The Training College 

 of the Future," Dr. M. W. Keatinge; "Emigration 

 .and Eugenics." C. S. Stock; 'The Forward Outlook 

 of Eugenics and Civics," Majot I.. Darwin and A. 

 Farquharson. 



THE Indian Bureau of Education at Delhi has issued 

 the first two of a series of -hoi 1 pamphlets in which 

 it proposes to give some account of developments in 

 Indian education which mav suggest themselves as 

 worthy of notice. Roth pamphlet- deal in the main 

 with the sphere of elementan education. The first 



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treats of drawing and manui el on in Punjab 



scl I-. It shows that the sam movement is pro- 

 ceeding in India as at bom- - vat Is proyiding facili- 

 1 - toi the young to learn b) .1- l>\ talking, 



listening, reading, and writing. Th hemes of in- 

 struction follow those adopted rei date in this 

 country, and several of our own ea I; mistakes are 

 being avoided. Tools and bend I uropean 



pattern. The problem of training teachers is being 

 attacked with some vigour. The second pamphlet is 

 more general interest. It tells of the bumble 

 beginning- of the education of factor) children in 

 India, and also children working in tea plat tations 

 and on the colliery estate of the East Indian Rail- 

 way. Descriptions are given of the work going on in 

 all' three classes of schools, ranging from the C1 

 to what in England is now called the junior technii 

 school. Above the stage of the creche and the infant 

 school the instruction 'is that of the part-timer, as a 

 rule, but there are arrangements for evening con- 

 tinuation schooling for older children and adolescents. 

 The vernacular has, as it should have, a more im- 

 portant place than the teaching of English, and the 

 vital importance of manual instruction is recognised. 

 The value of this enterprise can scarcely be exag- 

 gerated, for, apart from the fact that the individual 

 T- given the opportunity of rising as clerk or, pre- 

 ferably, as skilled workman, then- is the likelihood 

 of greater confidence between employer and employed 

 when direct communication i- possible, terms of 

 , ngagement can be clearly understood, and rates of 

 pay calculated. Difficulties abound, and one's sym- 

 pathy must go out to the pioneers in an uphdl task. 

 Mill-owners in Madras, planters in Darjeeling, the 

 railway companv, who have actually introduced com- 

 pulsory education, and officials deserve encouragement. 

 A PAMPHLET (price 3d.) has been issued by the Asso- 

 ciation for the Scientific Development of Industry, 

 containing the terms of a remarkable address on "The 

 Place and Importance of Science in Education," de- 

 livered before the society at Manchester on February 21 

 last by Mr. Edw. C. Reed. Mr. Reed alludes with 

 satisfaction to the awakened interest of all classes 

 towards science and scientific questions, largely in- 

 duced, however, by the events of the war, and warmly 

 pleads, with a variety of vivid illustrations, the claims 

 ' of scientific knowledge and of scientific methods of 

 imparting it as a fundamental part of our educa- 

 tional system. "The result of our neglect of science," 

 be -tale-, "has revealed itself to us in waste, muddle, 

 and inefficiency in practically every department of our 

 national life,"' whilst, on the other band, "wherever 

 we have resolutely endeavoured to make good out- 

 past deficiencies the effect has been wholly beneficial." 

 From these postulates he proceeds to argue power- 

 fully for a new method and purpose in our educa- 

 tional system. "For even' national purpose brains 

 are of "more use than bodies," and "the most 

 mechanical job is the better for a. little intelligence. 

 But it is not merely on the ground that a training in 

 science and in scientific methods would make the 

 nation more effective in its industrial and commercial 

 activities thai the author pleads so powerfully for the 

 inclusion of scientific ainis and training in the cur- 

 riculum of the schools from the earliest period _ of 

 child-life, but from the much higher consideration 

 that only in so far as this is done can the real, per- 

 ,1 well-being of the nation, both material and 

 spiritual, and of the individuals com 

 achieved, and the thesis is worked out with surprising 

 ncy and supported by a wealth of apt allusion. 

 The pamphlet is accompanied bv a diagram showing 

 the place of science in the si 1 of man and its im- 



mce in industry. 



