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 personal attachment to their schools. What such an attachment means Mr. Rhodes knew when by his will he founded the scholarships at Oxford which are associated with his name. I hope that, in any policy of coordinating the University teaching of the Empire, the importance of a scholarship system which may encourage students to go from University to University throughout the Empire, just as they do in Germany, will not be overlooked. I can see great uses in it, and from more standpoints than one.

Such a policy as I have tried briefly to indicate in outline does not present any great difficulties. The first requisite to its realization is that it should be borne in mind in the course of those developments of our system of highest education in this country which are near at hand. In Germany the so-called 'Technical High School' is really an institution on a level with the University, and gives an education in applied science to students of University standing and age who have such a general education as has enabled them to obtain the leaving certificate of the secondary school. In this country we have hitherto had no institution of this kind, but there are indications that its equivalent is likely soon to be developed. In the arrangement of the courses of instruction the opportunity will arise for bearing in mind the requirements of those whose lives are to be lived in the Colonies. If Germany had possessed our colonial possessions, beyond doubt close attention would have long since been paid to this matter. Not only the new technical institutions in this country, but the Universities themselves, may well make it a feature of their development. The study of tropical medicine is already set on foot both in London and in Liverpool. The investigation of colonial products, with a view to giving accurate scientific information which may lead to the development of new regions, such as already takes place at South Kensington; education in Roman-Dutch law; schools of Oriental languages—these and the like afford possibilities of strengthening