The Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction has issued a fifth
Report, recommending that grants of public money should be made to University and King's Colleges, London. The grants should be capital sums to allow the Colleges to obtain or extend their buildings, and annual allowances in aid of expenses for scientific teaching. The annual grants must be dependent on a complete separation between the finances of the Colleges and those of the schools or hospitals in connection with them, and the money to be paid down must be regulated by the amounts raised by subscriptions. Moreover, King's College must abolish all religious restrictions upon the selection of the teachers of science, and on the privileges granted to students of science, before any grants can be made. The Commissioners thinkit unadvisable that the Crown should claim in return any visitatorial powers over the Colleges, or any voice in the appointment of the Professors, even those whose stipends are to be increased. That does not strike us as a scheme likely to meet with the approval of Parliament, and, of course, it will not be taken up by the present Ministry. They would as soon endow Judaism as University College.
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