A meeting held last May to promote the course of
the higher teaching in London, resulted in the formation of an Associa- tion for the furtherance of that end; and by this Association a sub-committee was appointed to consider this subject in greater detail, which sub-committee has drawn-up a scheme of which the general features are as follows :—A teaching University, it says, should be founded in London, containing faculties of Arts, Science, Medicine, Laws. This is to be attained by including, so far as possible, the present teaching bodies in London, such as the Council of Legal Education, the Legal lecturers at the Inns of Court, the Medical professors of the Colleges of Surgeons and Physicians, and the Art and Science professors of the South Kensington bodies. The University of London, the Royal Academy, the Royal Society, the Incorporated Law Society, and the College of Civil Engineers would all be represented in the new University, as also would any of the Guilds which might -choose to bestow endowments on the new University. It was pro- posed that the Teaching University should confer its own degrees ; that it should have a Vice-Chancellor of its own, under the Chancellor of the University of London, while the present Vice- Chancellor of the existing University of London would hold his -existing position as Vice-Chancellor to the Examining Univer- sity. The Convocation of the existing University would, it was intended, be invited to admit to its ranks the graduates of the new Teaching University.
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