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cent, only meant getting an income of £480,- 

 000 a year. That sum of £480,000 was just 

 about half the sum which the German govern- 

 ment passed over evei-y year to the German 

 universities. Could it be said that half the 

 sum that Germany gave to her universities 

 was ' grandiose ' ? Was it not rather mean ? 

 Another objection to his Southport address 

 was that he began at the wrong end — with the 

 universities instead of with primary educa- 

 tion. But surely, when the British govern- 

 ment had in the last thirty years spent 420 

 millions sterling on primary schools, primary 

 education could be regarded as the affair of 

 the government and very properly left in its 

 hands. He at any rate did not wish the 

 stream of education to be dammed in any 

 way by anything. Let every British child 

 begin at the best primary school it could get, 

 and end, if it was capable, at the best univer- 

 sity it could get. 



The Government of India reports, accord- 

 ing to an abstract in the London Times, that 

 in 1901 more human beings were killed by 

 wild animals than in any year since 1875 

 except one, and reached a total of 3,651, while 

 last year it was 2,836, and the number of 

 deaths from snake-bite was 23,166. Tigers 

 killed 1,046 persons, of which 544 occurred in 

 Bengal, 65 being in a single district. This 

 was due to the depredations of a man-eater, 

 for the destruction of which a special reward 

 was offered without avail. In another district 

 where 43 jjersons were killed most of them fell 

 victims also to a man-eater. Wolves slew 377 

 persons last year, of whom 204 were killed in 

 the United Provinces. A campaign was un- 

 dertaken against these animals in Eohilldiand 

 and the Allahabad division, and they have 

 been almost exterminated in Cawnpore dis- 

 trict,- where they used to abound. 80,796 

 cattle were killed by wild animals last • 

 year, and 9,019 by snakes. Tigers killed 

 30,555 of these, leopards 38,211, and wolves 

 and hyenas most of the remainder. On the 

 other hand, rewards were paid last year for 

 the destruction of 1,331 tigers, 4,413 leopards, 

 1,858 bears, 2,373 wolves, and 706 hyenas, 

 while the number of snakes killed for reward 

 was 72,595. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 Mr. Atwood Matthews has bequeathed 

 £5,000 each to the general funds of the uni- 

 versity and of Trinity College, Cambridge, 

 and the Hon. George Charles Brodrick has 

 bequeathed £4,000 and his pictures and engra- 

 vings to Merton College, Oxford, of which he 

 was warden. 



Marsh Hall, occupied by the Yale Forest 

 School was injured by fire on December 11, 

 the loss being estimated at about $10,000. 



The College Entrance Examination Board 

 of the Middle States and Maryland, which was 

 organized three years ago to direct the en- 

 trance examinations of the principal colleges 

 and universities in the east, has extended its 

 influence to such a degi'ee that it has now 

 dropped the qualifying phrase and is now ' the 

 College Entrance Examination Board.' The 

 examiners for the current year include the fol- 

 lowing: Mathematics — Chief Examiner, Pro- 

 fessor Frank IST. Cole, Columbia University; 

 Associates, Professor Thomas C. Esty, Uni- 

 versity of Eochester, and Dr. Arthur Schultze, 

 De Witt Clinton High School, New York City. 

 Physics — Chief Examiner, Professor Edward 

 L. jSTichols, Cornell University; Associates, 

 Professor Francis C. Van Dyck, Rutgers Col- 

 lege, and Frank Rollins, Morris High School, 

 New York City. Botany — Chief Examiner, 

 Professor William F. Ganong, Smith College; 

 Associates, Professor Plenrietta E. Hooker, 

 Mount Holyoke College, and Louis Murbaeh, 

 Central High School, Detroit, Mich. Chem- 

 istry — Chief Examiner, Professor Leverett 

 Mears, Williams College; Associates, Pro- 

 fessor Charlotte F. Roberts, Wellesley College, 

 and Albert C. Hale, Boys' High School, 

 Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Mr. Lewis Burton Alger, Ph.B. (Michi- 

 gan), A.M. (Columbia) has been appointed 

 junior professor of education at the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan. 



Me. W. C. Fletcher has been appointed to 

 the newly established post of chief inspector 

 of secondary schools in Great Britain. Mr. 

 Fletcher was second wrangler at Cambridge 

 in 1886. 



