Show jr T Is liverpool has been JT ahio able to reachy to new now JH ideals spi ginging f from aarn tho the evor ever in jh creasI creasing nIg and over ever changing demands and necessities of ite its vast international trado trade that in BO so abort short a it haa has attained to so strong a position its commercial greatness la to the result of enterprise adaptability and resource and it would bo be disappointing if these characteristics did not also find expression in its educational facilities in lees less than years by ft a miracle of transformation modern liverpool has been created mainly by its merchants and handlers of at goods who have secured for tho the mersey a alume of trade second only to tho the port of london in amount tho the fourth part of the total imports and exports of the kingdom and within tho the same period liverpool has built up for itself a complex and highly dl di versified system of education which nas has a considerable amount of organic unity and works smoothly city believes in experiment it is the practical wind and arid the broad view which liverpool most respects it believes in experiment but those who carry out its plans must as the american phrase rune runs make good liverpool Is the venice of our times and has its padua within its own borders the intellectual gifts of a constructive imagination a wise forethought and the power to understand the point of view of other nations for Y which liverpool as a center of international trade has especial need havo have been rightly considered as amongst the peculiar advantages of a liberal education and the humanities havo have been carefully fostered since the days tion of rather uninteresting b building uIl dings ll 11 has a nourishing flourishing school of architecture arch itee with leaning toward tho the classic revival there la to a real unity between the ally aty and tho the university and tho the annual grant ant from tho the ates of at upward upwards of io to the university funds Is more than a guarantee of rood good faith it ie Is a proof of community of interest Inlo rost many of tho the leading men of at liverpool me ale on both tho the university council and the city council it was michael sadler who told liverpool in 1904 in tho the educational system of at a great commercial community ite its secondary schools should bo be tho the pivot it cannot be said that the amount of secondary education given g I 1 von in liverpool is in any way appropriate to resource pupils 1 1 como coma too late to tho the secondary schools and leave too early largo numbers who ought to como come do not tako take advantage of these schools at all yet tho the last ten cars has soon a notable expansion of secondary second arv school tion in Ller liverpool pool and thoro there Is an in creasing demand in tuo tue city for boys of seventeen yarn and upward who havo haie received a good general education secondary schools expand this raising of tho the entrance ago age for employment in tho the shipping oddes banks and insurgence In office is likely to do 10 much to help tho the extension and advance ad vanco of secondary education tho free place entrance examinations from tho the elementary schools aro are well roan man aged by a committee of at beads bends of secondary schools acting in irs operation cooperation co with the local authority is officials and there Is a continuous stream of promising soughs passing from the elementary to tho the secondary system teero there is to as much individuality and L lira 3 of 0 roscoe at which time were found cd the athenaeum Athena eure a 17 1739 and the koyal royal institution f 1817 1 scientific experiment and research were fira nurtured by the school of medicine 1834 and popular science deachin by the school of science 1861 in these institutions were ere focused for many years the intellectual life of the town then camo cama bishop lightfoote LIght foots a dream of a great civic school of IP lam rn ing and the foundation of university college 1881 with six endowed chairs three chairs and 93 students in a 1884 the college was admitted to the federal victoria university and in 1903 raised 0 to o the dignity of a separate university it now has 1200 students a staff of 1 professors and lecturers and possesses a property worth close upon a did memorial of local patriotism rapid growth en a 1 I a generous ex 0 aa curriculum are tha principal marks of this interesting educational development rendered possible by munificent voluntary effort the university Is really strong in lines of development which could not have been anticipated although itself so new now it has an important al department with four full protes ox ships and despite its own callec freedom in tho the public secondary i schools as in the private schools each has special alms 1 bias blas and line of development and there la Is no suggestion of unwholesome uniform ity the administration of the city schools both elementary and dary under J 0 leape Is carried carrie 4 on with sympathy and dh crimination 4 and ani any sincere attempt to promote enthusiasm thusia sm or frea linese la school work Is its likely to be encouraged it has been held that fads are officially recognized but when these fads take the form of better music art and handicraft it would be more to consider that a real movement towards self expression and self training Is being made there Is a city school of commerce which has taken over the w work ork of a school of commerce formerly run by a joint committee of the city and ano the university it provides both day dair end and evening classes the former arc are 1 almost I exclusively classes in models languages for which liverpool has 6 pedal demand and which are carried on with zeal and success they art helu hold at al hours bours during which men of business may attend the evening classes provide advanced I 1 ln in such s as banking ins ae paa P aa port L |