The GOVERNORS of the WOOLWICH POLYTECHNIC invite applications for the following appointments, which will date from next September : 1. Five Teachers for Mathematics and Physics at commencing salaries ranging from £130 to £160 per annum. Two of these appointments are confined to Teachers (men and women) who have had experience in Secondary Schools. 2. Six Teachers for the Day Secondary School (mixed) at commencing salaries ranging from £100 to £140 per annum. The appointments, which are open to men or women, will be divided, (a) two Teachers for English, History and Latin; (b) two Teachers for French and German; (c) two Teachers for general form work in the Lower School. 8. One Teacher to take Evening Classes in English, French and Latin preparatory for the London University Matriculation Examination. Further particulars of the appointments may be obtained by sending to the Principal a stamped addressed foolscap envelope. The last day for receiving applications is Friday, July 14. A. 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WHOLESALE MAKERS OF ALL KINDS OF METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS. Contractors to H.M. Government. Estd. 1750. Telegrams, "Rapkin, London." Telephone, 1981 Holborn KAHLBAUM'S CHEMICALS Sole Depot: JOHN J. GRIFFIN & SONS, LIMITED, SARDINIA STREET, LONDON, W.C. Telegram and Cable Address: "GRAMME, LONDON." THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1905. THE EMPIRE AND UNIVERSITY LIFE. WE Oxford: It is generally acknowledged that both Oxford and the country at large suffer greatly from the absence of a body of learned men devoting their lives to the cultivation of science, and to the direction of academical education." The commissioners of a quarter of a century later did, indeed, largely increase the number of university professors, but it left them powerless-muzzled lions chained by the leg. The whole power of influencing the passing generations of young men it left in the hands of a score of independent corporations-nearly all of them ancient, and with noble traditions of high learning and profound research; but, in the intellectual backwater of our time, each has strained to become a petty university and the successful rival of all the other petty universities-the successful rival, that is, in the qualities developed by examination, and in nothing higher. To this end each has freely spent its endowment in entrance scholarships to compete with others for the men who will do best in examin TE publish to-day a statement signed by more than forty professors and heads of departments of the University of Oxford setting forth a scheme for large increase in the facilities for research and for teaching. We have no hesitation in stating that these forty signatures include the majority of Oxford workers with a reputation for learning which extends beyond the borders of that ancient university. They also represent, with singular completeness, the varied lines of research which happily are pursued at Oxford; and it is an encouragement among the many unsatisfactory features in the intellectual life of the nation that they are ready and willing to stand side by side, each sympathising with the needs of other workers, each desiring to grant the fullest opportunities for research on the broadestations, and each has striven to secure, before and lines. They doubtless feel in Oxford, as we recognise in London, and as Britain generally is beginning to know, that the real conflict in this country is not between science and classics, between theology and philosophy, or between the true followers of any branches of learning, but that the great educational struggle of our time and race is of an utterly different kind. On the one side are ranged those who hold that the much needed intellectual inspiration of our youth can only be received in an atmosphere of research, can only be given by men who are themselves researchers; on the opposite side stand those who uphold the ancient Chinese and the modern British educational methods. We recognise to the full the Imperial importance of the subject. Young men instructed by purveyors of second-hand word knowledge are not likely to develop the germs of imagination and originality, and to deal effectively with the problems presented in the modern world which deals with things; and the time in which such development is generally possible is all too brief. When once the critical period of intellectual growth has been devoted solely to the collection and re-collection of material for the examiner, any awakening of original power is rare indeed. We have merely created one Briton the more incapable of using his birthright, out of sympathy with the movement which would help others to gain what he has lost; and his want of sympathy may mean a great deal. He may become a journalist and help to frame the opinion of the nation, he may enter Parliament and help to marshal the educational forces upon which our future existence most surely depends, he may be a power in the Treasury and help to determine the expenditure of the national income, he may become a schoolmaster or a college tutor and do unto others even as he has been done by. It cannot be disguised that things are in many respects worse than they were half a century ago. The University Commissioners of 1850 said of beyond all others, the most successful purveyor of knowledge which will be useful in examinations. We say, intentionally and deliberately, that each college has done these things, but are far from implying that all of them have no higher aims at the present time. We are only too glad to recognise in recent years a change of spirit which has led to significant departures from the scheme of the last university commissioners. Magdalen, New College, and Brasenose have been noble leaders in a noble cause the return of Oxford to ideals of learning which have been suppressed, but not altogether killed, by a false and injurious educational system. We gladly recognise clear evidence of the same spirit in other societies, and we are well aware that others, again, strongly desire to make provision for the highest learning, but are unable to do so while their whole available funds barely suffice to enable them to keep their place in the unfortunate and wasteful inter-collegiate competition which dominates both our ancient universities. There is, however, one college in which the necessity for such competition is reduced to a minimum, and it is precisely here that the last commissioners inflicted the crowning injury upon the intellectual life of Oxford-they set their seal on the existing constitution of All Souls. A college almost without the responsibility and the care of undergraduates is created, it would seem, to be the home of the highest learning and research. And what is it? Well, apart from a distinguished professoriate, a generous assistance to the Bodleian, and a rare and occasional election of men of learning to her fellowships--for all of which we freely and gladly express our gratitude-All Souls merely exists in order to encourage the worst features of an intellectual training which exists by and for examination alone. Only recently the governing body rejected the movement, which happily existed among some of the members, to ask for evidence of original power in the candidates who compete for the fellowships. Yet |