University and Educational Intelligence

Abstract

CAMBRIDGE.—The Syndicate, appointed in May, 1875, to consider the requirements of the university in different departments of study, have just issued their fourth report on the subject. After stating that in their opinion the inter-collegiate system should be further stimulated and supplemented by the institution of university readerships, and that by a more complete organisation the requisite provision for teaching and the encouragement of research might be to a considerable extent made, they nevertheless are of opinion that certain subjects of great importance are not now represented in the professoriate, the absence of which from such representation constitutes a serious defect in the Cambridge system, and they recommend that professorships amongst other subjects should be created as soon as the resources of the university permit, in comparative philology, mental philosophy and logic, physiology, English language and literature.