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CAMBRIDGE.—The abstracts of dissertations approved for the Ph.D., M.Sc., and M.Litt. degrees in Cambridge University for the year 1926–27 are interesting, if only for the light they cast on the use that is made of these junior research degrees to encourage research among the younger graduates of Cambridge and other Universities. The comparative abstention of the literary faculties remains as marked as before. Only 14 out of 55 degrees were awarded in the literary faculties and only 2 of these went to Cambridge graduates ! Of the 41 science degrees, 15 were awarded to students trained wholly at Cambridge. The difference between different faculties is shown by the following figures for the different departments:—Physics 10, Mathematics 6, Biochemistry 5, Physiology 4, Botany 4, History 4, while Fine Arts, Music, Law, Moral Science, Geography, Architecture, and Anthropology are all unrepresented in the list. The difference is reflected also in the Colleges:—Trinity with 10, Emmanuel and Caius with 9 each, and St. John's with 7, head the list, while Magdalene, Pembroke, Peterhouse, Queens', St. Catherine's, Selwyn, and Trinity Hall are absent. Of the graduates educated elsewhere who came to Cambridge only for post-graduate work, 13 came from other Universities in England, 5 each, from Canada and Scotland, 4 from India, 3 each from the United States and Wales, 2 each from Australia and Ireland, and 1 from New Zealand.
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University and Educational Intelligence. Nature 122, 259 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122259a0
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