Mr. Goseben followed Dr. Westeott with an appeal for funds.
He dwelt on the great judgment with which the very moderate subscriptions they had received had been used and expended, so as now to furnish the means by which 13,000 students in all the most crowded centres of London receive substantial measure of University instruction. The courses of lectures given in London had increased from 44 in 1880, to 130 in 1890; and the number of students from 2,200 in 1880, to nearly 13,000 in 1890. Mr. Goschen warmly recommended the cause to the City Companies, and the Lord Mayor held out hopes that his year of office would be marked by giving a really effective stimulus to the University Extension move- ment. He also approved the proposal to found a real Teaching University in London. That is good. But we trust that the Teaching University will not be founded at the expense, and to the serious disadvantage, of the existing Examining Univer- sity, which has exercised so very useful an influence over the teaching of hundreds of schools and colleges throughout the length and breadth of the land. It is not economical to pull down one University that is full of vitality, in order to build up on its ruins a second University of which as yet we know nothing.
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