University and Educational Intelligence

Abstract

LIVERPOOL.—The University has just received two valuable gifts—8000l from Mr. C, Sydney Jones, to endow the chair of classical archaeology, hitherto maintained by temporary guarantees, and 10,000l. from Prof, and Mrs. Herdman, to establish a chair of geology. Both chairs are memorials: the first of a father, Mr. Charles W. Jones; the. second of a son, Lieut. George A. Herdman, a young student, not merely of promise, but of distinction, who was killed in action in France a few months ago. . Each, satisfies a real need, for at Liverpool the course of study in Latin and in Greek recognises. that without some knowledge of life and. custom it is impossible to understand ancient, history or to appreciate classical literature. The professor of classical archaeology, therefore, takes an active part throughout the.classical pourse, though his work is so arranged as to leave one term in the session free for research at home or abroad.