The Durham University Report The report of the Royal Commission
on the University of Durham confines itself strictly to the subject immedi- ately before it, and no particular lessons of wider signifi- cance are to be drawn from its recommendations. Durham University is a difficult problem. It has no great Uni- versity traditions behind it, for it was only founded just a hundred years ago. Its constituent parts consist of colleges, providing mainly for theological studies, at Durham, and others, primarily Armstrong College, where science and engineering are predominant, at Newcastle fourteen miles away. There is very little co-ordination between- the Durham section and the Newcastle section, :and too little between Armstrong College and the School of Medicine in Newcastle itself ; and the Senate, which unites all the sections, has very limited powers. The Commission recommends such concentration as is possible, and in particular the complete amalgamation of Armstrong College and the School of Medicine.
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