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UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 
INTELLIGENCE. 
Liverroot.—Mr. C. Sydney Jones has given the 
University the sum of 8oool. for the endowment of the 
chair of classical archaeology, in memory of his father, 
the late Mr. C. W. Jones, who was one of the founders 
of the chair in 1906, 
Lonpon.—The several faculties have elected their 
respective deans for the period 1916-18; among these 
are :—Medicine, Sir Bertrand E. Dawson, London 
Hospital Medical College; Science, Prof. Herbert 
Jackson, King’s College; Engineering, Dr. H. C. H. 
Carpenter, Imperial College of Science and Tech- 
nology; Economics, the Hon. W. Pember Reeves, 
London School of Economics, 
Oxrorp.—Much interest has been aroused in Oxford 
by the debate in the House of Commons on the second 
reading of the Rhodes Estate Bill. The Bill proposes 
to establish twelve scholarships of 30ol. a year each 
in lieu of the fifteen scholarships of 250l. tenable by 
German students nominated by the Kaiser. The 
scheme in its present form contemplates the distribu- 
tion of the twelve new scholarships among colonists 
of the British Empire, but it is felt in some quarters 
that it might be advantageous, and not out of accord- 
ance with Mr. Rhodes’s intention, to extend the 
benefit to a wider sphere. The adoption of 
Lord H. Cecil’s proposal to give the committee 
power to grant discretion to the trustees to make the 
substituted scholarships available for students whether 
within or without the British Empire has accordingly 
been received by many with approval. It remains to 
be seen what form the Bill will ultimately take in its 
passage through Parliament. , 
SIR Dovucias Haic, Commander-in-Chief of the 
British Forces in France, has been elected rector of 
he Andrews University, in succession to Lord Aber- 
een, 
ACCORDING to the Nieuwe Courant, the number of 
women students in the German universities during the 
last summer semester was 5460, or double the number 
of 1911. The women now represent 10:5 per cent. of 
matriculated students, as against 4-8 per cent. in 1911. 
Of the students actually present in the universities 
(i.e. outside the Army), the women now form one- 
third. The number of women medical students is now 
1394, aS against 582 in 1911. In this way the losses 
caused by the war will to some extent be repaired, for 
the first 600 German casualty lists contain 1500 names 
of medical men. 
Tue Institution scholarship of the North-East Coast 
Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders for the pre- 
sent year has been awarded to E. V. Telfer. The 
council of the institution, believing that the time has 
arrived for making the subjects of the scholarship 
examination of. the institution more comprehensive 
than hitherto, has decided that the syllabus of future 
examinations shall be :—(1) English; (2) English his- 
tory and geography; (3) Latin, Greek, French, or Ger- 
man (one of the four); (4) extra mathematics; (5) and 
(6) either experimental science and mechanics, or any 
two of the following :—Chemistry, physics, mechanics. 
A COMMITTEE was appointed at the Newcastle meet- 
ing of the British Association to report upon the 
method and substance of science teaching in secondary 
schools, with particular reference to the place of such 
instruction in general education. 
lution was adopted by the committee at a meeting 
held on October 18 :—‘‘That in order to secure free- 
dom of action for teachers of Science in schools, and 
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to prevent the instruction from becoming stereotyped, 
it is undesirable for any external authority to pre- 
scribe a detailed syllabus in science for use in schools, 
whether intended as the basis of. examinations or 
otherwise.” ” ! 
In his recent presidential address to the Institution 
of Automobile Engineers Mr, L. A. Legros dealt, 
among other topics, with the part science might with ad- 
vantage take in the education of our governing classes. 
He spoke of the deplorable ignorance of technical and 
scientific matters among those on whom the responsi- 
bilities for running the war have fallen. Never, he 
said, in the history of engineering has the ignorance 
of science by the politicians, the military, and the 
other authorities been so openly displayed as in the 
early stages of the war, and never has it proved so 
costly in time, in life, and in substance. The views 
of teachers brought up on classical lines are, he main- 
tained, devoid of that perspective which would enable 
them to realise that for the majority of their pupils 
the dead languages are useless except as a discipline or 
gymnastic which can be provided as efficiently in the 
course of work which is really useful to them. A 
knowledge, of the classics is undoubtedly of value to 
men of the clerical, legal, literary, and even of the 
medical professions, but, Mr. Legros urged, how much 
greater would have been the value, in this war, of 
that small section which deals with politics had it 
been as well grounded in the sciences as in the dead 
languages? 
Mr. M.’S, Pease has sent us from Ruhleben a copy 
of the prospectus of work for the autumn term at the 
Ruhleben Camp School. It would be difficult to pro- 
vide more convincing proof of the hope for the future 
which inspires our countrymen at Ruhleben and of the 
courage and initiative of these prisoners there than 
the arrangements they have made for study and self- 
improvement. The camp school is in charge of a 
businesslike general committee, which has discovered in 
the camp teachers of nearly every conceivable subject, 
means for arranging and equipping laboratories for 
practical work, for starting a good library, and for 
holding examinations in connection with the home 
examining authorities. The prospectus is able to print 
the proud boast that ‘“‘in most subjects the tuition 
provided by the school ranges from that required by 
absolute beginners to that required by advanced uni- 
versity students.’”” We can refer here only to some 
of the numerous departments, and mention may be 
made of those for biological sciences, mathematics 
and physics, chemistry, engineering, and nautical sub- 
jects. In zoology, for example, courses are being 
given in vertebrate embryology, and in the study of 
the Echinodermata; in botany the Gymnosverme are 
being studied, with laboratory work; all branches of 
pure mathematics, including, for instance, infinitesimal 
calculus and differential equations, are being taught; — 
lectures and laboratory work are available in all 
branches of chemistry; and every branch of engineer- 
ing is catered for. No saner way of relieving the 
awful tedium of prison camp life could be found than 
the classes and circles for study which have ~ been 
provided by the Ruhleben Camp Committee. 
In Scotland for some time it has been possible for 
young men to obtain engineering training by attend- 
ing during the winter classes in the universities, and 
by getting works experience in the .summer. This 
plan suits Scotland, where the university session is con- 
densed and there is a long interval between the closing 
of the university and its reopening. In England the 
university session is distributed more evenly through- 
out the vear, and Dr. Wertheimer, the dean of the 
faculty of engineering of the University of Bristel, has, 
