Calendar: 1927-1928 Page 425

xxii ANNUAL EEPORT has been ably continued by Mr Raffi and the King's College Russia Society has met to hear papers in Russian throughout the Session There is an advance in the number of students of Czech The Session was marked by the resumption of courses in Bulgarian Polish remains the principal gap Mr Ν Jopson has added Albanian to the number of languages taught by the School The most striking feature in the work was considerable advance in the higher studies The students working in the School for the degree of Ph numbered 12 Of these were students from the United States who intended to take their degrees in their own Universities Four students completed their course for the degree of Ph and for that of and in several cases it may be confidently stated that the work resulted in the production of much-needed and scholarly book on an important subject comparatively unknown The following are the subjects of the four Ph theses presented History of Russian Educational Policy by Hans Religious Philosophy in Russia in the Nineteenth Century by Stoyanovich "A Critical Survey of the Narodnik Movement by Miss Branfoot Cambridge Pushkin and the English Romanticists by William Matthews Manchester The thesis of Dr Miller the first completed under the direction of the School was published and was very favourably reviewed it may be regarded as text-book of Russian Economics for the period preceding the War Miss Miller obtained lectureship in the University of Liverpool Other former students of the School thanks to the scholarships endowed by various Governments are at work in Czecho- Slovakia and Jugo-Slavia These maintained their connection with the School and their work continues to make good progress Seven students are preparing for the Honours Degree for the Diploma in Slavonic Studies and are taking Russian for the Diploma in Journalism War Office Class was held in Russian and the small class of Post- graduate students of technical and other subjects was continued The Slavonic Review continued to incorporate the results of American scholarship as well as British and issued several reprints including masterpieces of Slavonic poetry in English translation and memorial of the work of Sir Paul Vinogradoff who was Senior Member of the School The Review was described in the Times Literary Supplement as having achieved an established position complete programme of public lectures at the Institute of Historical Research or in the College was carried out during the Session The Post-graduate work of the School greatly benefited by its tenancy of quarters in the Institute of Historical Research At the Conference of British and American Historians there was Slavonic Section at which Professor Paul Milyukov read paper on The Influence of English Political Thought in Russia Professor Archibald