6 JULY 1907, Page 11

A very interesting ceremony took place at Oxford on Monday,

when the Vice-Chancellor presided at the presenta- tion to Dr. Murray Butler, the President of Columbia University, of a casket and address, given to him in the name of a number of teachers of elementary and secondary schools in Great Britain and Ireland as an expression of their grati- tude for the great services rendered by him during their visit to America. We desire to endorse everything said by the Vice-Chancellor and Sir William Anson in regard to Dr. Butler and his work and position in the educational world of America. Dr. Butler's own University is one of the most successful in the United States, and is distinguished not only by its intellectual keenness, but by its wide sympathies with the cause of education as a whole.