Welsh Journals

318 Old Students' Association. [Mar., of this fund in appointing a lecturer to visit educational centres in England and Wales, with a view to interest teachers in the application of phonetics to the study of modern languages and to correction of faults in English pronunciation, and also in Miss Soames's phonetic method of teaching young children to read. Their choice has fallen on Miss Mary Brebner, M.A. (Lond.), (Classics and Modern Languages). Miss Brebner has enjoyed excep¬ tional opportunities of appreciating the importance of phonetic teaching, having last year as travelling scholar of the Gilchrist Trust frequently seen it applied with marked success in German schools." In connection with this Lectureship Miss Brebner is, we understand, to give a course of lectures at this College in the early part of next term. Miss Elizabeth Evans, another old student, has lately been appointed mistress of the Aberayron County School, adding another to our numerous representatives in the Welsh schools; and H. H. Roseveare has gone to be assistant master at the Endowed School, Watford, Herts. It is with sorrow that we undertake the painful duty of recording the sudden death of two old students of this College, whose names at any rate will be familiar to many readers of the Magazine, S. C. Hall and B. 0. James. Their loss will be keenly felt by all those who knew them, and all old students will join in expressions of sincerest regret and deep sympathy with their bereaved relatives and friends. Mr. B. 0. James, Goginan, was a former student of the Bangor Training College, and in 1893 gained a scholarship at Aberystwyth. After being engaged in teaching in London for a short time, he secured an appointment as lecturer at l'Ecole de Commerce, Lucerne, Switzerland, where he remained for two years. He returned to England, and from Aberystwyth gained exhibitions in modern languages at St. John's College, Cambridge; but his studies were interrupted by ill-health, and at the time