20 DECEMBER 1884, Page 3

The whole scheme strikes us as rather unpractical and visionary

; and so, apparently, thought the meeting in which it was discussed on Monday, under the Presidency of Lord Reay, at the House of the Society of Arts. The meeting was evidently opposed to adopting the report of the Sub Committee, which it regarded as proposing inroads on the existing Univer- sity of London to which there is no reason at all for supposing that the University would consent ; and accordingly, after a good deal of discussion, which did not appear to point to any very definite conclusion, the report of the Sub-Committee was re- ceived by the Association, but not adopted. We have briefly criticised the general drift of the Sub-Committee's report in another column.