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[APRIL 14, 1923" 

statutes and regulations in general accordance with 
the recommendations contained in the recent Report 
of the Royal Commission. The Cambridge Com- 
missioners named in the Bill are Viscount Ullswater 
(chairman), Bishop Ryle, Sir Thomas Heath, Sir 
Richard Glazebrook, Sir Henry Wilson, Sir Hugh 
Anderson, Dr. Peter Giles, Mr. William Rendell, and 
Dr. Hugh Dalton. It is perhaps significant of the 
difference between the two Universities that the only 
Fellow of the Royal Society among the Oxford Com- 
missioners is Sir Archibald Garrod, Regius professor 
of medicine. A few only of the provisions in the Bill 
can be selected for mention here. In making statutes 
the Commissioners are to have regard to the main 
design of the founder of any institution or emolument 
affected by the statute. In the case of a statute 
affecting a college they are to have regard to the 
maintenance of the college in the interests of educa- 
tion, religion, learning, or research. In particular, in 
prescribing the scale or basis of assessment of contri- 
butions made by the colleges to University purposes, 
regard is to be had in the first place to the needs of 
the several] colleges in themselves for educational and 
other collegiate purposes. It is not desired in reform- 
ing Oxford and Cambridge to reform away the peculiar 
characteristics which have built up their present 
strong position in the world of education, religion, 
learning, and research. 
Dr. G. S. Graham Smith, Pembroke College, has 
been appointed reader in preventive medicine; Dr. 
J. T.‘ MacCurdy, Corpus Christi College (also of 
Toronto and Johns Hopkins Universities), has been 
appointed University lecturer in psychopathology ; J. 
Mills, research student, Gonville and Caius College, 
has been elected to the Nita King research scholar- 
ship in the etiology, pathology, and prevention of |! 
fevers. 
Lonpon.—The latest date for the receipt of appli- 
cations for grants from the Dixon Fund for the assist- 
ance of scientific investigations is May 14 next. 
Applications, accompanied by the names and ad- 
dresses of two references, must be sent to the Aca- 
demic Registrar, University of London, South Ken- 
sington, S.W.7. 
Dr. Erne N. Mites Tuomas, fellow of University 
College, London, has been appointed lecturer in botany 
and zoology at University College, Leicester. 
THE Times announces that Sir Walter Buchanan, a 
pioneer of the frozen-meat export industry, has given 
10,000/, for the establishment of a chair of agriculture 
at Victoria College, Wellington (N.Z.). 
THE University of Budapest announces that 
summer courses will be held this year from August 1 
to September 15 under its auspices. Lectures will be 
given by members of the faculties of theology, law, 
medicine, arts, and economics. Full prospectuses 
are in preparation. 
THE Government of Western Australia has allocated 
a special grant this vear for the commencement of 
the permanent buildings of the University of Western 
Australia, Perth. As recommended by the pro- 
fessorial board, the science departments will be the 
first to be temoved to new premises, and the present 
grant for the period ending June 30, 1923, is for the 
provision of a joint building for the biology and 
geology departments. The next buildings to be 
erected will be those for chemistry and for physics. 
The new site for the University is at Crawley, and 
covers an area of about 160 acres. The science 
buildings will be placed on high ground adjoining 
the national reserve of King’s Park, and their 
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southern frontages will command a splendid view 
of the broad sheet of Melville Water on the Swan 
River. 
WE notice that numerous appeals have been 
issued by professors in Germany for money for 
institutions for higher education and research, such 
as the Emperor William Institute for Physics, the 
English Seminary in Berlin University—by Prof. 
Alois Brandt, who advocates the compulsory teaching 
of English in all the higher public schools of Germany 
—the Cancer Research Institute, the Seminary for 
Christian Archeology, the Egyptian Seminary, and 
the High School of Jewish Studies. It is stated that 
a good deal of political recrimination has found its 
way into the appeals. Whatever may be thought 
of the policies of the German Government since the 
War in other respects, it cannot fairly be charged with 
failure to appreciate the vital importance of education. 
We have excellent authority for believing that_ 
throughout its financial difficulties Germany has 
had no disposition to economise in its educational 
expenditure. The universities, as was pointed out 
in these columns some months ago, were never 
depleted of students during the War to anything 
like the same extent as ours, while since the War 
they have been filled to overflowing; but the appeals 
would seem to indicate that the Government has 
been less generous to institutions for higher education 
and research than to the elementary and secondary 
schools and the new ‘‘ People’s High Schools.” 
The depreciation of the mark has of course led to 
difficulties in the way of obtaining English books 
and periodicals, and these have been to some extent 
met by a system of exchange with British universities 
established last year by the Universities Bureau. 
THE twenty-first annual meeting of the Carnegie 
Trust for the Universities of Scotland was held on 
February 14, Lord Sands presiding. The original 
endowment fund of 2,000,000/. has been increased by 
547,000/., in addition to which there are reserve funds 
amounting to nearly 183,000/. Expenditure for the 
year ended September 30, 1922, amounted to 125,292/., 
including: assistance in payment of class-fees, 
61,217/.; grants to universities and colleges for 
buildings, lectureships, libraries, etc., 44,925/.; em- 
couragement of post-graduate study and research, 
17,063/.; annual grant to women students’ union, 
250]. ; management expenses, 5193/. Post-graduate 
study and research were encouraged by fellowships, 
scholarships, and prizes (6958/.), grants towards 
salaries of part-time research assistants (3600/.), 
grants to the Laboratory of the R.C.P., Edinburgh 
(2740l.), to St. Andrews Institute for Clinical Re- 
search (rooo/.), and other grants (2765/.). Arrange- 
ments were made with the Department of Scientific 
and Industrial Research for the simultaneous con- 
sideration of applications. During the year sums 
amounting to 1387/. were voluntarily repaid by or — 
on behalf of 39 beneficiaries, making a total of 12,583/. 
repaid since 1901. The repayments by women ex- 
ceeded those by men for the first time both in num- 
ber and total amount. In the annual report of the 
Carnegie Corporation of New York, issued a few days 
earlier than the Scottish report, stress is laid on the — 
dangers and difficulties incidental to the administra- 
tion of all such charitable foundations and the 
necessity for the exercise of careful discrimination 
and constant watchfulness for the harmful as well as 
the beneficial results of giving. Among the former 
it mentions the overcrowding of the colleges with 
students, many of whom would find their greatest 
happiness in other vocations than those to be sought 
through college training, 
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