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THERE was an especial appropriateness about the visit 1 of Prof. Hele-Sh&w, F.R.S., to the Cape of Good Hope University on the occasion of the degree day, on February 27, when he gave an address on the true function of a university and the directions in which university work in South Africa should be strengthened and developed. Prof. Hele-Shaw, it will be remembered, is in South Africa to organise technical education in the new colonies, and he is for the present acting as senior professor in charge of the department of mechanical and electrical engineering at the Transvaal Technical Institute. This institute will, it is hoped by the local authorities of the Transvaal, develop into a university, but the university authorities at the Cape of Good Hope naturally desire that the future shall see no undesirable competition and no overlapping between the university work of Cape Town and that of the Transvaal when the latter becomes fully organised. There is in other quarters the fear that in the work of instituting new universities an undue prominence may be given to the subjects of study of a more technical kind, and that the branches of knowledge usually associated with the inculcation of cultured ideas may be neglected. All these questions were discussed at length by Prof. Hele-Shaw.
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University Education in South Africa . Nature 69, 544–545 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/069544a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/069544a0