MASON COLLEGE, BIRMINGHAM. 
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students who are anxious to make a more thorough study of them. 
The courses include various branches of Science, Literature, 
History, Economics, and Art, and, where necessary or possible, 
are thoroughly illustrated by experiments, lantern, and diagrams. 
The present list includes about forty lecturers and about a hundred 
and fifty courses ; the former including, on the one hand, those of 
the lecturers on the Cambridge staff who are available for use 
within the defined area of co-operation; and, on the other, certain 
of the professors and lecturers of Mason College,—which latter can 
in general, however, deliver lectures only in places from which 
return to Birmingham the same evening after the lectures is 
possible. The average cost of a course of twelve lectures under 
this scheme, including hire of room and other local expenses, 
would probably vary from £70 to £80. In the case of lecturers 
taken from the College this is subject to a reduction of 
approximately £10, where the place of lecture is situated within a 
radius of twelve miles from the City of Birmingham. 
It will be seen that the scheme, as briefly sketched above, is in 
conjunction with the University of Cambridge alone. We hope 
and believe, however, that it will not rest there, but that relations 
of a similar or cognate kind will be established with Oxford also. 
Comparatively inexpensive as these courses of lectures are, 
when we bear in mind the kind of work they involve, there are 
nevertheless many places of relatively small population by which 
the sum named above is too great to be readily met. With a 
special view to giving facilities for lecture courses to such places, 
the Mason College Committee has issued a further scheme, 
unconnected with the Cambridge Syndicate, though conducted— 
excepting as to number of lectures—under practically identical 
methods. Upon this list, besides members of the College teaching 
staff, it is hoped gradually to get the names of any local scholars 
who have made a special study in any direction, and who are 
willing and able to lecture upon it. Thus, in the present list, 
there are, amongst others, the names of Mr. Osmund Airy, M.A., 
H. M. Inspector of Schools, who offers a course on “ The Consti¬ 
tutional History of England under the Later Stuarts ” ; Mr. D. E. 
January, 1893. 
