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OXFORD.—For many years the annual reports of the University Extension Delegacy have recorded steady progress in the work committed to its supervision. The report just issued shows that, from September 1894 to May 1895, 1544 lectures were delivered in connection with the Delegacy. The number of courses organised by Local Committees showed an increase over those of previous years, but the courses given in connection with County Councils showed a decline. This is because the County Councils have appointed lecturers of their own to carry on the work of the Extension lectures; and because fixed colleges or institutes are taking the place of peripatetic teaching. Oxford centres have never shown a preference for courses of lectures on science subjects: in 1894–95, 142 courses were delivered on history, literature, economics, and art, and fifty-seven courses on various branches of science. That the lectures delivered under the auspices of the Delegacy appeal to a large class is shown by the fact that the aggregate of average attendances during the year covered by the report was 20,809.
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University and Educational Intelligence. Nature 53, 165–166 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/053165a0
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