999, TRANSACTIONS OF SKCTION L. 
civic and social problems, and to foster a mutual sympathy and understanding 
imperially and internationally among students. 
‘To afford technical and industrial students facilities to examine into 
questions of particular interest to them in manufactures, etc., by observation 
in other countries and by providing them with introductions to leaders in 
industrial activity. 
‘To promote interest in travel as an educational factor among the 
authorities of Universities, with a view to the possibility of some kind of such 
training being included in the regular curricula. 
‘To promote interest in other Universities, their aims and student life, 
the compulsory physical training, and methods of working their ways through 
college, for example, being valuable points for investigation. 
‘ To promote international interchange for academic work among English- 
speaking Universities; and, in the case of the British Empire, to afford 
facilities for students of one division to gain, under favourable circumstances, 
information relative to the needs, development, and potentialities of other 
divisions ; and to promote an academic interchange of students among the 
Universities of the Empire. 
‘ As already indicated, there is a widespread interest in the movements so 
far as the United Kingdom is concerned ; while in Canada and the United 
States there is also a widespread recognition of the value of the scheme ; and 
although committees have not been actually organised there as in this country, 
a very large body of the most prominent educationists are strongly in favour 
of the plan, and have promised their co-operation if the scheme is financed. 
‘It is proposed to establish two students’ travelling bureaux, one in New 
York and one in London ; an American secretary (resident in New York) and 
a British secretary (resident in London), both of whom shall be college men 
appointed to afford every facility to any graduate or undergraduate of any 
University who wishes to visit the United States, Canada, or the United 
Kingdom for the purpose of obtaining an insight into the student, national, 
and industrial life of those countries. The bureaux will undertake the work 
of providing information relating to United States, Canadian, British, and 
other English-speaking Universities for the use of students, undergraduates, 
and others. They will also provide information relating to educational tours 
of any description in English-speaking countries, and the arrangement of 
tours suitable to the needs of the inquirer with a view to his obtaining the 
greatest facilities for education with a minimum of expense. Furthermore it 
will be their duty to provide information as to the best places for the study 
of educational, governmental, industrial, and social problems in the United 
States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and other parts of the Empire, as 
well as to provide introductions to leaders in the above-named spheres of 
activity, besides undertaking the organisation and conduct of special tours 
for educational purposes, if necessary. : 
‘It is proposed to provide 28 travelling scholarships, 14 of these being 
available for Universities in the United Kingdom, 10 for Universities in 
America and four for Universities in Canada. The arrangements will be 
controlled by general committees, one for the United Kingdom and one for 
Canada and the United States, unless it is found necessary to inaugurate a 
separate committee for each of the latter.’ 
You will observe then that a scheme which I had ventured to suggest 
as being ‘of incalculable advantage to the Empire’ had, before I wrote 
the words quoted, been advocated entirely without my knowledge by a body 
of influential educational leaders in England, whose names were appended 
to the notice which I have read ; and I need only add that it is quite certain 
that I am interpreting the sentiments of all here assembled in wishing 
God-speed to the development of the scheme, which seems likely to prove, 
