TOKYO UNIVERSITY

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7869, 3 August 1911, Page 8

TOKYO UNIVERSITY

Tho latest edition of the Calendar of tlie Tokyo Imperial University shows that that institution is continuing to progress, and that it is doing excellent work in fitting men lor tho highest duties of every department of the nation. On previous occasions we have given on outline of its history and organisation, so that it is not necessary meantime to enter, into details. The university at present consists of tho University Hall and six Colleges of Law, Medicine,''Engineering, Literature, Science and Agriculture- Our readers are specially interested in the Colleges of Engineering and Science. The former includes the nine courses of civil engineering, mechanical engineering, naval architecture, applied chemistry, technology of explosives, and mining and metallurgy. Tho College of Science the nine courses of mathematics, astronomy, theoretical physics, chemistry, zoology, botany, geology, and mineralogy. The teaching staff of the colleges numbers 282, including 131 professors. 59 assistant professors, 77 persons specially appointed and 15 foreign professors. These latter include throe Englishmen, three ■ Americans, two Germans, two Frenchmen, one Austrian, one Italian, one -Swiss, one Russian and one Chinese. The total number of students is over 5000; and of these 660 are in tho College of Engineering and 160 in tho College of Science. -The calendar gives an account of tho developments which have, taken place in the curricula and appliances of various colleges, and shows that educational authorities in Ja.pan keep their eyes open to all the improvements which aro made in educational arrangements in tho different countries of the world. The University is well equipped with all tho most recent appliances required for teaching and investigation. Some of the best students aro sent to foreign countries to continue their education, and the professors are kept in touch with tho latest developments by visits to the universities of Europe and America. 1 Even when in Japan their work is not by any means confined to the University, as they are frequently sent on tours for the purpose of scientific investigation; A glance at the occupations of the graduates shows that , they are now to he found in all tho higher positions of national administration and those connected with engineering and industry, and they hare been in great part responsible for the largo developments which have taken place in Japan in recent years. At the end of tho calendar there are printed .lists'of the contents of the Journals of the Medical. Envinocring, Science, and Agricultural Colleges, tho Memoirs of the Literature College, and the Bulletins of tlio Engineering Colleges, and they show a most remarkable ontpnt of _ papers, dealing not only with works which have been carried out, but also with investigations which hare enlarged the bounds of knowledge, and they disprove the statement, which is often made, that the Japanese are clever imitators, hnt have no originality. These papers will hear favourable comparison with similar papers published in any other country in tho world. —"Engineering.”