tion of University methods and work to a class of students which hitherto has not had instruction in the University of Toronto. It is not merely a case of helping persons who need and want help, it is more a matter of planning a course which will enable such persons to take a University Degree within a reasonable time. This is the great problem which the Summer Session of 1906 has raised for the University.

The Summer Session was originally planned to meet certain special needs of teachers, due to the changes made in the curriculum of the Public and High Schools. These special needs will continue to exist, but with them there has now arisen from the teachers outside Toronto, the demand, which has been mentioned above, for regular University work. The meeting of this demand, however, will lead in time to a very considerable expense, for the fees, unless largely increased, can never meet the outlay necessary to conduct such a complex Summer Session as that just referred to.

Last Summer eighteen courses of lectures and practical work were offered, the subjects in which these courses were given being Art, Botany (2), Chemistry (2), French (2), Geology, German (2), Mineralogy, Physics (2), Psychology (2), Reading, etc., Zoology (2). In addition to these courses, six evening lectures were given at which there was an average attendance of about one hundred.

The work done by those in attendance at the Summer Session is of the highest order, and no teacher could ask for better students in point of diligence and earnestness. This will account for the fact that the amount of work covered during July of this year was so great that, in nearly every subject, it would be possible to equate it with the work done during the regular Winter Sessions of the University.

The University has every reason to expect that the Summer Session will grow, and that soon, besides being an important work in itself, it will do in greater measure what it is already doing to some extent, namely, turn the attention of Public School teachers to the advantages of University work, and act as a preparation for the regular University course. Several of those who have attended the Sessions have already been led to take Honour work in some of the Departments represented. ALBERT H. ABBOTT.

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THE JUBILEE CELEBRATION

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THE JUBILEE CELEBRATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE.

The following account of the Jubilee Celebration was taken from the official report sent to the University of Toronto by its representative, Dr. W. J. Cross of Hamilton, Victoria.

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HE Jubilee Celebration of the University of Melbourne was observed during the week beginning April 23, 1906, when, to do honour to their sister University, representatives of distinguished universities, both within and without the Empire, met and participated in events of a social and academic interest worthy of the occasion. The delegates, who were received with a warmth and hospitality which won their deepest appreciation, represented universities in Australia, New Zealand, England, Scotland, Ireland, Russia (Dorpat), Japan (Tokio), Germany (Heidelberg), and Canada (Toronto); and a reception in their honour, given at the State Parliament House by the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Sir Henry Wrixon, and Lady Wrixon, marked the opening of the Celebration at 3 p.m., on April 23. Unfortunately, the ViceChancellor was prevented by illness from attending this and the succeeding ceremonies.

In the evening a Conversazione was given in the University grounds by His Excellency the State Governor, Sir Reginald Talbot. The grounds. were beautifully illuminated, the assemblage gay and brilliant. The Premier of Victoria held a reception under a canopy erected near Wilson Hall, a magnificent structure donated by the late Sir Samuel Wilson who, in recognition of his liberality, received the honour of knighthood.

It was in Wilson Hall, the following afternoon, that the reception of the delegates and the presentation of their addresses took place, in the presence of a throng of interested guests. The professors and lecturers of the University, the members of the Council, and the visiting delegates, all in their distinguishing robes, and looking very picturesque, entered in procession and marched to their allotted seats in the front of the Hall. In the absence of the Vice-Chancellor, Dr. McFarland, the senior member of the Council, presided, and tendered a cordial welcome to the delegates who had come with greetings to Melbourne. He thanked especially the representatives of Russia and Japan. The Registrar then introduced the delegates in succession, as each came forward with the address from his University. They were received by His Excellency, the State Governor, and Dr. McFarland, and approached in the reverse order of the dates of the founding of their respective universities, the youngest institute being placed first. On this basis, Toronto came seventeenth; Victoria College, Wellington, first; and Cambridge, thirtieth and last. A few of the delegates delivered short addresses on

behalf of their seats of learning, the Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne leading the way as representative of Cambridge.

A highly dramatic incident marked the conclusion of the speech by Professor Vasiljev, the Russian delegate, when he remarked that Science knew no racial distinctions nor political boundaries, that it was a promoter of peace; and then, by way of giving a practical illustration of the bearing of his remarks, expressed the pleasure with which he extended the hand of friendship to his Japanese colleague on this new soil of Victoria. Professor Ishikawa, the Japanese representative, quickly rose and grasped the hand of the Russian with every appearance of sincere cordiality, and the demonstration of friendship between representatives of two nations so lately at war, was greeted with rounds of applause from the spectators. The ceremony closed with a few words spoken on behalf of the visiting delegates by Sir M. Elliott Lewis of Tasmania.

On April 26, the most gorgeous display of the whole Celebration took place in the Exhibition Building, when about three thousand spectators were present. It was a glorified "Annual Commencement", special interest being added by the presence of so many visitors and by the conferring of degrees upon several distinguished men, among them, the Governor-General, Lord Northcote, who was admitted ad eundem. His Excellency, the Governor of Victoria, welcomed the Governor-General, and addressed a few words of congratulation to the University Authorities. Addresses by Lord Northcote and others succeeded the ceremony of conferring the degrees, and the visiting delegates were personally received by His Excellency the Governor-General.

A reception by the Women Students in the Conservatory of Music, a Dinner in the Masonic Hall, the inter-University sports, the opening of a new pavilion, and the presentation in Greek of "The Wasps" of Aristophanes, by the students of the University, all claimed the interest and attention of the guests during the week; and a Ball given in the Town Hall on the evening of April 27 was, perhaps, the most enjoyable of the purely social events.

As a fitting corrective to this round of academie dissipation, a Thanksgiving service was held on Sunday afternoon in St. Paul's Cathedral, where seats were reserved for the members of the University and their guests, who marched again in procession, wearing their academic robes.

The impressive service in the noble Cathedral was the last of the events of the Jubilee Celebration which had proved of much pleasure and profit to those present, and which had been the means of bringing into closer union the seats of learning all over the world.