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education, and during that time it has developed 

 beyond the recognition of many of those who 

 imagined themselves to be its guardians. 



Mr. Paley Yorke protested against the charge of 

 soullessness that is sometimes levelled at scientific 

 education, and argued that it gives an extended 

 vision and develops both imagination and that too 

 rare gift of being able to marvel at the wonders of 

 nature and to appreciate the beauties of life. It 

 cannot be admitted that a good general education 

 can be obtained only by the study of certain subjects 

 in certain ways or that education and culture must 

 be associated necessarily with bygone civilisations. 



Reference was made to the fact that opportunity 

 for contact with industry and for research is scant, 

 and it was urged that directors of industry might 

 submit some of their research problems to local 

 Education Authorities and through them to the 

 scientific and technical staffs of the various technical 

 institutions in the area. It is realised, of course, that 

 all problems would not arrive that way because of 

 the publicity involved, but some useful work may 

 be done. 



Attention was also directed to the proposed 

 reduction of grants for scientific research and to 

 the reduction in the number of national scholarships 

 for higher education. It was pointed out that not 

 only do these reductions gravely imperil scientific 

 and industrial development, but also that the per- 

 centage reduction in the estimates for these items is 

 much greater than that for corresponding items in 

 other branches of educational work. 



Lord Burnham said that technical education is 

 slowly gaining its right place in the assessment of 

 national values. This country, with its superiority 

 in industrial matters during the greater part of the 

 nineteenth century, looked with supreme self-confidence 

 upon the efforts of other nations to compete with 

 us in industrial production. When the advance of 

 scientific discovery showed that mere manual dexterity 

 was not sufficient the necessity for technical education 

 was admitted. Lord Burnham doubted whether 

 there is any other class of teacher upon which the 

 future prosperity of the nation depended so much. 

 Technical teachers are striving to shape education 

 for the public good and for the welfare of the genera- 

 tions which are coming to manhood. 



Resolutions asking for the appointment of a 

 committee of inquiry to investigate the whole field 

 of technical education in relation to education 

 generally and to industry, and expressing alarm at 

 the reduction in the number and value of scholarships 

 available for higher education, were carried unani- 

 mously. 



University and Educational Intelligence. 



Bristol. — The J. S. Fry and Sons, Ltd., Colston 

 Research Fellowship, which provides for payment of 

 fees and a maintenance allowance of 150/. a year, has 

 been awarded to Mr. F. B. Wrightson, a student in 

 the Faculty of Engineering. 



Cambridge. — Mr. W. B. R. King, fellow of Jesus 

 College, has been elected to be fellow and lecturer 

 in natural sciences at Magdalene College ; Mr. P. M. 

 S. Blackett to be Charles Kingsley Bye fellow of 

 Magdalene College ; Mr. L. E. Bayliss, Trinity College, 

 to be Michael Foster student in physiology ; Mr. F. 

 Lavington and Mr. J. Line, to be fellows of Emmanuel 

 College; and Mr. J. A. Carroll to be fellow of Sidney 

 Sussex College. 



Glasgow. — Mr. A. D. Lindsay has been appointed 

 to the chair of moral philosophy in succession to the 



late Sir Henry Jones. Mr. Lindsay was formerlv 

 Shaw Fellow of the University of Edinburgh, and 

 lecturer in philosophy at the old Victoria University. 

 In 1906 he was elected Fellow of Balliol College, 

 Oxford, and was appointed classical tutor and 

 Jowett lecturer in philosophy. 



Leeds. — The Council has appointed Dr. W. T. 

 David to be professor of civil and mechanical engineer- 

 ing in succession to Prof. J. Goodman, who retires 

 in October next. Dr. David, who is at present pro- 

 fessor of engineering at the University College of 

 South Wales, was educated at Cardiff and Cambridge. 

 He served as demonstrator in engineering under 

 Prof. Bertram Hopkinson at Cambridge for two 

 years, and later was appointed H.M. Inspector of 

 Technical Colleges under the Board of Education. 

 His research work has been concerned mostly with 

 internal combustion engines. 



The handsome gift received some little time ago 

 from Col. Sir Edward Brotherton of 20,000/. has 

 enabled the University to make an important develop- 

 ment in the work of the department of pathology and 

 bacteriology. Sir Edward's intention was that his 

 gift should be devoted to the furtherance of the study 

 of bacteriology with special reference to public 

 health, and as a step in this direction the Council has 

 instituted a new professorship to be called " The 

 Sir Edward Brotherton Chair of Bacteriology." Dr. 

 J. W. McLeod has been elected as the first holder of 

 this chair. Dr. McLeod graduated with commenda- 

 tion at Glasgow University in the summer of 1908, 

 and after acting as house physician at the Glasgow 

 Royal Infirmary and house surgeon at the Glasgow 

 Western Infirmary, gained the Coats research scholar- 

 ship and worked for a year under Prof. R. Muir. 

 Later he was appointed assistant lecturer and 

 demonstrator in pathology at the Medical School of 

 the Charing • Cross Hospital, and afterwards lecturer 

 in bacteriology at the University of Leeds. Dr. 

 McLeod has carried out important research work in 

 the field of bacteriology, and has published numerous 

 papers dealing more especially with the bacteriology 

 of influenza, dysentery, pneumonia, and the strepto- 

 coccal infections. 



London. — At a meeting of the Senate on June 21, 

 Mr. H. J. Waring, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine 

 and vice-president of St. Bartholomew's Hospital 

 Medical College, was elected Vice-Chancellor for 

 1922-23, in succession to Sir Sydney Russell-Wells. 

 A cordial vote of thanks was passed to Sir Sydney 

 Russell- Wells for the services which he had rendered 

 to the University as Vice-Chancellor since December 

 1919. 



Mr. J. H. Woodger was appointed to the Uni- 

 versity readership in biology tenable at Middlesex 

 Hospital Medical School. Mr. Woodger was educated 

 at University College, whence he graduated in 

 zoology, and was awarded the Derby Research 

 Scholarship. In 19 17 he was appointed proto- 

 zoologist to the Central Clinical Laboratory in 

 Amarah, and in 191 9 assistant in zoology at Uni- 

 versity College. 



Sir Charles W. C. Oman, Chichele professor of modern 

 history in the University of Oxford, was appointed 

 Creighton lecturer for the year 1922-23. The 

 subject of his lecture will be " Historical Perspective." 



The Lindley studentship for 1922, of the value of 

 120/. and tenable in the Physiological Laboratory, 

 has been awarded to Miss M. J. Wilson-Smith of 

 Royal Holloway College ; and the Lmiversity 

 studentship in physiology for 1922-23, of the value 

 of 50/. and tenable in the Physiological Laboratory 

 of the University or of one of its Schools, to Miss 

 M. M. A. Murray of Bedford College. 



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