They certainly do things on a noble scale at Manchester.
Owens College is trying to raise a fund for a new Professorship of Engineering. 8,750/. is already subscribed by little more than a dozen subscribers, one firm alone, Messrs. Beyer, Peacock, and Co., leading off with a subscription of 3,000/. We do not wonder, however, that Manchester is showing its generosity in relation to Owens College. Under the able and learned superintendence of Professor Greenwood it is rapidly increasing in importance. Its
ordinary day pupils have increased 60 per cent. since last year, and in the evening classes there are upwards of three hundred students. This is still but little to what we hope, from what we once ventured to call, the great future "University of the Busy." But it is so much beyond what the present dimensions of the College will accommodate, that the urgent need of new buildings is felt more and more strongly every half-year. If we understand the signs of the times at all, local colleges giving an education far above that of even good grammar-schools, but scarcely up to the thighest University type, are likely to multiply rapidly. And of this class of colleges, Owens College, Manchester, promises to be, in the North at least, the best model, and the first great success.
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