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Friday, November 19th, td Eustace Percy moved the second reading of the ill for creating a Statutory Commission to execute he reforms in the University of London that were commended by Mr. Hilton Young's Departmental mmittee of 1924. A Finance Council will be created o allocate the grants made to the University by the tate and the London County Council, and the Senate .11 be reconstructed so that it may be, what it has of been hitherto, a -really representative body for the ntrol of academic policy. In such a scheme as this overnment control is, of course, always suspected, and rd Eustace Percy addressed himself to proving that he University would remain truly autonomous. It was rue that there would be nominees of the Government on e Council, but they would merely introduce that outside nterest which had always been valuable in the conduct f the University. It was the very anxiety to avoid ffieial dictation, indeed, which accounted for the roPosal that the University Grants Committee should abolished.
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