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at the South African College.
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the relation between these professions and the College, and
to put the latter into its proper position as a training school
for them.
It remains to be shown how the South African College
is being enabled to carry out the duties which we have
sketched. It is to be noted that its position in the Gardens
at Cape Town is particularly advantageous. It has all the
advantages, and as few as possible of the disadvantages, of
town life. It has a considerable cricket-field, besides tennis-
courts on its own grounds, and at the same time it is close
to Government House, the Parliament buildings, the Law
Courts, the Public Offices, and also to the Libraries, the
Art Gallery, the Museum, and the Botanical Gardens.
One advantage of this is that Professors at the College are
able to carry on original investigations with the greatest
facility possible in South Africa; another, following from
the first, is that it is possible to combine some public
scientific office with a professorship at the College. This
was done some years ago in connection with the establish
ment of a Professorship of Botany, which has unfortunately
been allowed to lapse, and which an effort is now being
made to re-establish. A similar arrangement, in 1895,
made it possible to successfully establish a Professorship of
Geology, the holder of which is head of the Geological
Survey. From this double office much has already been
gained, and much more is to be expected in the future.
The College has many needs which must be fulfilled
before there is any institution in South Africa capable of
doing the work of University education satisfactorily.
Omitting everything but bare necessities, at least six pro
fessorships are still needed. The professorships of English
and Philosophy and of Modern Languages should be
divided; the existing professorships of Law should be
properly endowed and regulated, and professorships of
Botany, Zoology and History should be established. The
Cape Government already contributes liberally to Pro
fessors’ salaries ; nor is it easy to imagine a more desirable