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OXFORD.—The Colleges meet on Saturday, October 15, and the professorial lectures begin the following week. The professors and lecturers in physics have drawn up the following o scheme of lectures and classes for the Michaelmas term:—Prof. Clifton lectures on Wednesday and Saturday on terrestrial magnetism, and Prof. Bartholomew Price lectures on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday on the dynamics of material systems. Mr. Hayes lectures on electrostatics (treated mathematically). Instruction in practical physics is given daily in the Clarendon Laboratory, under the direction of Prof. Clifton, Mr. Stocker, and Mr. Heaton. Mr. Stocker gives an experimental lecture on elementary mechanics, and Mr. Heaton has a class for problems in elementary mechanics and physics. The above lectures are given in the University Museum. At Queen's College Mr. Elliot gives a course on geometrical and physical objects; at Christ Church Mr. Baynes gives a course on elementary heat and light; and at Balliol Mr. Dixon gives a course on elementary magnetism and electricity.
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University and Educational Intelligence . Nature 24, 575–576 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/024575a0
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