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You will find that he will be able to eart a very lunch better wage whole comes back than before he went." That showed what some of the men thought of the schit. cational experinent at Cologne And was not only the men of the British Army who were guiaing by this experiment. He noticed, for instances, that the arranges turnts which had been unade to permit the ten if the verwens forces to visit farms and factories in this country and

sing the armistice, and at the same time they had been called upon to provide places for American soldiers. They had. nevertheless, absorbed 5,011 Soldier stu- dents from, the Dominions. Thề Vaitre! | Kingdom was too litte, provided with vniversities even for its own inhabitants, There were eighteen universities in the United Kingdom, and twenty-ukur in the test the Empire The Empire needed.

trainid ti ny trade. The edtention is Sir D. MacAlister, vic-chancellor and | Education Committer, said the miversi admirable. He is not wasting his time. | principal of Glasgow Chiversity, saif the tes of the United Kingdom had been seris British aniversities in 1912 decided that | gudly overcrowded with their own students i; was, negeMSÅ?? to improvise some or On the invitation of the Chief of the

ganisation to bring the together. The Imperial General Staff representatives

British universities were the most autong of Universities and other higher education

hans serious bodies in the history of the Institutions on June, 12th met represerbak

worlit Every one of thour, did pretty ives of the Dominions in conference at

well want it liker; everygge was jealors Australia House for the discussion of edu-

of vas own traditions, and was desirous ational problems which have presented

of preserving its own autonomy even from themselves to the Imperial Educational

a benevolent Payyl of Filmention. That Committee of the War Office as the result

was a grint advantage. Each university of experiïned gained in the working of to come into contact with the technical | could develop on its own lines and make the educational sehetnes in the armies

processes in the universities and trelos, experimentą But the system and its Lieneral Wilson, in opening the grural schools had met with the greatest disadvantages ab ceedings welcomed all the outliers of sugress..

PROMISING MOVEMENT.

the Empire who were, present, and re

The war was giving us a unique marked that nothing but a great warranty. All the youth of the Empire would have resulted in a suldier taking!

(were inåxed ugh, for the Brst time. They the chair at a meeting of educational ex

could exchange idens and derive advan- perik. He hurt been a soldier for thirty-tages "trom visiting the educational in.

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greater supply of university teaching" in its centre, the United Kingdom. The needed interchangeability of evedit for s urk done by students transferring from In Frane, feu

One university to another within the which he had just feturuek, alsolutely the pice. The student, coming from overtakk!! apposite condition prevailed. The nai- should able to take his degree in the sitios there were argagised to deathshare taken it had he remained at his bri

same time as that in which he would and they were not happy about ik, Clear, something betweg" the "two extremes

The Universities Bureau was desirable. when founded, was to be managed by

genal university. At

At present the thumin fun stadent was loaded, and could not

btain the fall credit for the work

full had done; or he did aos serure the

Launu yeuer, id pad always understood stitutions of this country. This great committee half the members of which advantages which the Briush ne this mules were soluners because they movement must not be allowed to hzzle out, were to be presentatives of the oversens Enter. He believed this

The war

were

es.blishments of the Empire, and theyromise and fertility. He hoped the the Alle fixturients from ace of learning or examinatio

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It was a place where one livet for three years, (Langhter.) For those who had been through the mill that had great value.

It was not the amount of tion extracted from lecturers or

The file the people with whom he mixed

FOR

could not pass examinations or make There were indications that many of the universition

It had badly begin its secured without any lowering of the standard of edgention within the British woney. (Laughter.) The meeting repre great motal advantages sained by the work when the war occurred.

Dr. E. Parer, master univesities. sented the Army, Navy, and Air Force,riod of sacrifice were being lost, but I interfered with the work of the of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and the Universities, and educational here, they had a movement of incredible bureau bas it had awakened them to the

sympathised with the idens which taptain The Merma cluse operation.

forward, but there anime had put hayl were met to cry to solve some of the probot the Empire would make it one of their

freely and predent difficulties Cambridge was not primark- Iphis raizou by the hundest war, the World | objects to maintain an interest in the hadeser Been, and to try during the war educational unity of the Empire. The veres, at a conference called by the baran it has brought hom the anivers to solve some of the problems of peace

Empire must be held together by the sities that ther

ere was a patriotic claim The problems folk under three hents: - force of idens and aspirations inculcated

1!!!! them to provide for overseas sen Thy-hard-to-try-to-weave-education and infused through education. An old dents, and that there should be an almost at the life of the soldier,

| Creek philosopher said that the unity of untform nra deg for such research

but the amount of education one got there Tooting the profession of arms close State was founded on education. 1 students up to modern thought and modern the unity of a State, so the unity of an

with gard to the universities,

At Cambridge he did not think they would Empire. He would like to ser equality and other matters, could be dus by the

let a peranti uff with less than two" To hand hack soldiers and sailors, touf, lucational opportunity all through baren if only it had staff and resources.

Dr. A. L. Smith, Masten of Balliol Cofs civil life only as good soldiers, but the Empire (Cheers. He would likely hoped to attach to the lean an interchange committee for the purpose of very Englishman who went out to Aus

was unable to be present. ge. Oxford. as good citizens.

tralia, New Zealand, Canada, or South arrangements with other muntries but be le sent letter giving his views on

the Africa, or, conversely, anyone from the titusion.

Lurenu would reminta British in.conthe subject. He pointed out that the ex- Dominions who went to any other part of

Amerien

and

teachers and students was taking the Empires to feel that wherever he s which desired to come into this committe

place. Sendents from ap- the Douinions would be welcomed and it and have

universities, in The Bureau Would ate have to take into consideration the fortbeoning report on the indian aniversities.

The respon. sibility rested upon this country to pro via the Indian wisersities with usure

Selene,

years radiofre

other entri

to hin was, the scirnor of the British thed his "children would have the bust indenendest chairman and functions. Frosh take their degree in two Fears

of all was the invention of education in

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en better teachers,

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He put in a ply for the teaching of Sarography. Enter the heading of xrat by there was nothing that could to

taught Another thing which appealed Empire. He had often been struck with could. t. He would like to see a greater educational opportunities that the Empire

head of three, their Dominian the sinaline of the outlook of Russians. interchange of students and teachers he

xrusing them one year. Many had not yet he sent to the Chinese Tarks. and Frenchinen. In weite

hut as post-graduate work many they tried to get a bigger outlook, of the Empire; arrangements but having let go the handle of the parish which the most praising students in

would be easier to revo punp they fell into the horse poud. The pie might be able to obtain up

portunities of development in these parti.

Professor Ramsay Muir said that he had taken benours at bane might. well befit by studying business methods story of the British Empié was a fair estar sides of learning et instruction in and the others who had prepared the in Canada, Australia, or South Africa, story. He was an Trishnan, but if the which their aptitudes would be must efort on the indian Universities had erie What was wanted was a shit of inverted English were wise they would infectively cultivated. In this great Empire to the conclusion that they were in many Rhodes Foundation to to paint the salt water red, and äne every

ersity was the scheme, to which every part of the Em Ways

In a most unhappy wndisin, and The essence of Oxford wide the funds. he hot body who bathed two and sixpenes for

pire-hud independently contributed, they that it was necessary to have in this coun-

residential qualification" and

the Oxford. { tresjiass. (Laughter and theers.)

had the germ of an all-Empire edu-rely strongly constituted Bureau think it would be fair to give

of information to which cational organisation. What form it might of India could have

the universities A GREAT INVENTION.

degree to a student from another univer The sity after only one year's

residence. Mr. Fisher, who was very curdially 'timately take it was not for him to say adian universities should be kept in i Dr. Walker (Oxford Pniversity) prin received, said that he know nothing of the

The great point was that there should be timate touch with the work of universities

Dominion uIE ed out that students from He con the in other quarters of the world. art of war, but he knew that the Kreatively will and determination

Persities

had considerable privi- already part of those men in the Army who had sidered it would require £10,000 4 year war was in a sense never before equalled.

leges at Oxford by being excused une year war of selenan.

of residence and the entrance examina- There had been imarvel-

Been interested in the movement to see to run the bureau adequately, and it was impracticable to ask the universities to

tion. A year ngn a further step was lous developments of scientife discovery that the movement did not waste itself.

Contribute the whole of that summ To taken, when the new degree of Doctor of but perhaps the most surprising invention There had been no more promising move-

ment in their time. They who were old establish a commonwealth of ideas the Philosophy was instituted, and the new Governments of the Eripir, should gon

of advanced studies, in which gra the Army, an invention hardly second in educationists had learned a great deal

tribute towards the organisation of “a duates from approved universities in the importance to the invention of firearms

scheme. co-operative Kreat

Dominions would be eligible without any For long time past the Army in this missioned,fficers at Oxford and Cam

Dr. Hill secretary of the bureau, Said entrance examination. A further advance country had berry looked upon as a blind beidze bad, demonstrated the truth of the

thai

through the force of circumstances was also contemplated. Oxford did not ally employment. He had been told by Proposition that when they got a number the furen had so far been sny a bureau discriminate against students froth the a large number of employers of labour fintelligent iner together who wanted to of drains, but he believed very firmly Dominions. IL them exactly on the that they were reluctant to employ the earn a thing they could acquire the re that, given a suitable, home ir London, same ficting as students from other lani- ex-soldier brause his life in the Army quisite knowledge in an infinitely short had anfitted him for industrial life. But space of time. They must not be discoursuitable staff, it would be able to versities in the United Kingdom. It was for universities to determine what condi perform very valuable functions for the universities of the Empire.

tions of entry should be imposed on its it was obvious that if an army chose to by criticism that much of the edu ducate its men it had an unrivalledation given in the armies, was superficial

students. and it was desirable in the in- and was afterwards forgatten. They were

terests of education generally that ach ofportunity. The man were under die

In the alternoon, the subjects for dis

university should have a right.

If they cipline, they remained in the Army forged spoon great undertaking an'i

ression were t Tuter changeability of the recognition of the fact by the Chie!

WETE to impose a uniform system for all considerable times they had a certain

matriculation standards within the Era aniversities,, they would be doing a very Fire, and the interchangeablity of creditor service to education.. for work die g bị students transferring i fron Lone university to another within the Dr. Jarkinganising secretary, Empire,

Rhodes

mentioned that Lieutenant-ioned "Amery, Under-See the Res

xumination of the Uni- retary for the Colonies, who presided aversity of Oxford had been applied to the afternoon session, said that the Sec- students from the United States, and out Colonel H. M Tury, president of the rotary for the Colonies. Viscoun. Milner, of 2,000 candidates more than half failed Khaki University of Calada and of the University of Alberta, spoke on

had found it impossible to attend. The to pass. This had pointed at the wenk functions of an Imperial Bureau Inwere not in oue sense new, They were ness of

ideas in the subjects for their discussion spot in American education, the unsound

training the secondary with the view the British Commonwealth that every facility

amount of spare time on their hands, and they were in the full vigour of youth. What better opportunity could an edu rator have to the remarkable Order issued on May 13th last educacion was described not duly we invaluable, but as an essential element in the making of a soldier. This educational movement mark ed a great development in the history of the armies of the British Empire, and the

from it. The schools for officers and non-

of the Steff that education as hence training was one of those great steps for forward to be an essential part of Anny ward which only the world-shattering war was calculated to produce. (Cheers,)

BERENT CF ZETCATION

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ASTRIDRANGE OF STUDENTS.

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course

"AMERICA'S WEAK SPOT:

was the result of a spontaneous movement formed, but the impression then left on the medieval idea of inter-wided for the interchange of students, movement had not come from above. 1912; he said, A. Universities Bureau was really an attempt to revive within the schools Hole should be

his mind was how little they knew of each other and how little they were willing to

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pro-

who was

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arising from the men themselves. Canada

but started the khunki University, the Aus

of studies. The travelling stu-it was impossible to expect any student tralians and New Zealanders inaugurated help one acother. All that had gone. The dents passed from one part of Christen to reach honours standard after only one their own education movements. There Universities Bureau was started with a dom to another, and the assing of year at Oxford."

General Smut veraity was the movement led by the Young Men's great Imperial idea, and that had been

from one unit to another was a graduate of th African students

Cambridge Christian Association in the British found to be a means of co-ordinating effort

part of the fabric of Christen- Army, which had now become organised among the universities. They should ted to the grent universities, and hausting the resources of their own coun

insisted

upon These students were freely admit- ston a complete and far-reaching basis. keep in mind that the universities over teachers, enjoyed the privilege of having this county to take advantage

the try as ir ne possible before coming to Modern war rande grent demands upon sex were as much British universities their degrees recognised all through higher university work. Rhodes students th, whole manhood of the nation. All the 119 the universities in the Homeland.

procedure of a Papal Bull. tain functions which 段 Liniversitica

University the greatest possible considera. the mather had to be dealt with tion, lit every Rhodes scholar felt that Bureau should fall. "In the first place, it by conference and dustission. As a mat should have definite knowledge of the ter of fact same progress had already beene required, two or even three years, and men within the. Empire who were capable made. The Rhodes scholarships marked four years, to get full benefit from

in son enses they would have preferred of doing its intellectual work. He lived the beginning of a new phase in univer Oxford teaching. While a good deal

!

English

young man of a nation were taken out (Cheers.). And he wished to suggest

cer- That was arranged by the had never failed to receive from Oxford

the

on the interuates to be ex-

the complete should be given.a

of civil life and placed under military discipline. Many of them fols they were wasting time, and to some extent the were. Men who had planned civil éare er found that during the years of war their attitudes had changed, and that stoo miles away, and the chief task of his life The war

var had brought further could be done to co-ordinate the matri- they were likely to be turned out inte life was to secure then good enough to developments in its trail. Many of the quiation examinations, different univer- eivil life with no equipos suited to deal with particular classes of education Dominions were giving scholarships to ties had different ideals, and a great oni- their aptitudes and inclinations. The and intellectual work. The burenu should their officers and hun at the British university had a right to insist that the educational schemes which had been de have all the information be required. He ersities, and the Board of Education had people who tune to it should be educated ried during the war were framed to mew knew the universities were very jealous to, retive its educational grantivirus on the lines that the university profesed these difficulties. He wished to acknow about placing information about their from any part of the Empire who had different from mere general ability to

ed men and had a right to

something ledge the great resource which had heen, men in any outsider's hands. That shown by the officers of the Regular Army was a narrow view. The buren shoulded in th. British Forces, paid by the deal with questions. Bir Gregory Foster, and their educational advisers in metius also supply information concerning ap left to the watsmanship of Mr. Fisher rested that the whole stress should be

Parliament of this country. It had been Provost, University College, London, sug the tremendous practical difficulties of pointments that were available for men. to decide that the grants for study given carrying out an educational sebegin in It should also have knowledge of the men to ex-service men should not be limited The number of

of Kradunt time of war.

who were coming forward who had not to the confines of the United Kingdom, changed should be very small. He pro He was much struck by hearing from reached the teaching stage. Such and that men, who had any good reason posed that a student coming to a new Lord Gorell that at one time there were no burelu might also have wei-social fuse who would benefit by stay at hersens university, after two years at his mother fewer than 5,000,000 men under training. tions. British universities would prob universities got the same grant as Never in history had an educational ex ably in the future take the place of studied in

YOU FRO, to this country.

Even if the

hia studies, and after satisfying periment been conducted on" so Iorge & German universities in attracting students took the narrow conception of universi the examiners should, at the end of threz scale. Consider the number of men in the from the outside world. inlet he was ties as merely places for acquiring certain years, be given the degree of his mother Mr. Keith, University of Cambridge another 3.000. at Manchester with men from overseas seeking higher students who would benefit by going to had spent two years in arts at any Beot-

There would always he good many 1.000. The numbers were quite amail. The education. There was nothing a man warld never before saw 3,000,000 men in coming from overseas had more difficulty.

a university in the prine of life enger to learn, voinnin than getting adjusted to life in a new pire in some other part of the Emtish unIVOT Fould be accepted by any

ew. The other

university, and granted, a tovers. It was true that as demobilisation community. The Universities Burea"niversition had each developed its owa degree at the end of one year.

In the advanced that-there were still something could perform the enormously important character and atmosphere: 4 own nut tase of a student from England or the like 500,000 live in France alone under function of forming » point of contnere imbibing of that atmosphere and-the-Beyttish-university-belony degree-

upon national and Imperial life.

be spent at Leducation, and the same thing was going for these men and for the British Empire | gaining of 'that outlook-were of immen Dominions for an alteration of this polley...

would he granted. Any suggestion by the on in Egypt, Salonica, and Mesopotamiana-whole.

ralne to citizens of the country in The other day he happened to overhear a He did not think the functions of the the university was situated: it was of would be carefully considered. Sir D. conversation between the mother of a bureau could be efficiently carried on

even greater value to the students who MacAlister did not think the interchange soldier and two goldiers fresh from the except by a full-time staff. giving full came from other parts of the Empire. It of students was so desirable as was sup Army at Cologne. The mother complain. thought, to its best development brought a new outlook.and a wider angle posed. If they were taken away from ed very bitterly that her son was being should not have executive functions, but of vision. It was above all valuable to their native country for three years at kept at Cologne after two years service should possess such accurate knowledge as those who wished to devote themselves to the most plastic time of their lives, they in the Army The two men, who belong to make the information which it supplied public affairs.

lost touch with their own country. The ed to the artisan class, were conciliating worthy of attention. Representatives of Captain Professor E. R. Holmes, chair- interchange of graduates was the thing her, and the form their conciliation took each of the Dominions should be ascociat-man of the Australian Universities Com- to be aimed at. was thus: *In Cologia your boy can be ed with it.

mittee and member of the Imperial The conference adjourned until to-day.

universities. Ar Oxford some 2000, a mistaken, Great Britain would be deluged learning, the advantages were obvious. naive mentioned that students who.

look

there was a wider view.

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