Journal of the University of Manchester

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FROM the University of Manchester we have received a copy of the University's Journal, No. 1, vol. 1, published by the Manchester University Press. In an inaugural message from the chairman of Council, Sir Christopher Needham, the Journal is described as a new venture designed by the Council to meet what it feels to be a responsibility in regard to graduates, to provide news of University interest and information of developments in University policy as well as personal matters. Conversely, an article by Mr. David Cardwell, chairman of Convocation, reminds graduates that active membership of Convocation (which has, since 1915, followed automatically on graduation) affords a means of service whereby the life-long debt they owe to their University may, in some measure, be repaid. The realization of this ideal has been facilitated by the formation of Groups of Convocation formed in Manchester, London, Leeds and Sheffield and contemplated at Oxford, for discussing matters of University interest and such social and other activities as their members may desire. Sir Ernest Simon contributes an article, “A Time for Expansion: the New Buildings and the Future”, describing buildings just completed at a cost of £100,000, others (including a new dental school and hospital and physical chemical research laboratory, swimming bath, etc.) which it is hoped to complete by the end of 1938, and a project, illustrated by an architect's drawing, for further urgently needed developments destined to form with the buildings already mentioned a dignified and impressive quadrangle. Among other contributors to the journal are: Prof. A. H. Gibson (on the Department of Engineering), Prof. Edward Fiddes (on “Some Teachers of Owens College”), Dr. Tyson (on “The Library and its Uses”) and Prof. G. H. Thompson (his Ludwig Mond lecture on “Intelligence and Civilisation”). Copies of the Journal will be supplied without charge and on application j to graduates and friends of the University.