BIRKBECK COLLEGE
SIR,—Some of your readers may be interested to know that at Birkbeck College it will soon be possible, in spite of the War, for a certain number of men and women still living in the London area to continue or begin their University education and work for Arts or Science degrees of London University, even if they are unable to attend courses except in the evening.
As the other Colleges of London University had carried out the war plans previously adopted on the advice of the Lord Privy Seal and transferred their main activities to centres out- side London, Birkbeck College decided not long ago to try the experiment of breaking the black-out by day ; and last Monday, for the first time for ten years, it began a programme of University courses for day students (in particular for first year scientists). The College has now decided to extend the scope of the original experiment for the sake of University students who cannot attend day courses (and in particular for students in the Arts Faculty), and it is arranging a supple- mentary programme of evening courses, between the hours of 5.3o p.m. and 8.3o p.m., to begin next Monday.
Evening work in London has not been made easier by the War ; but I know there are students who are no less prepared than is the staff to compete against the powers of darkness " with zeal " (as Mr. Churchill said in another context) " and not altogether without relish." Our numbers will have to be strictly limited by the capacity of the excellent A.R.P. accom- modation available at the College. But I hope that anyone who wishes to apply for admission to the College or to discuss a proposed course of study will write at once to the Clerk of the College for an application form or call at the College on Friday, October 27th, between the hours of 5 p.m. and 8 p.m., when the Deans of the Faculties of Arts and Science can be interviewed.—I am, Sir, your obedient servant, JoHN P. R. MAun.
Birkbeck College, University of London, E.C. 4.
[We have been asked also to publish the following: In common with the other schools and colleges of the University of London, the London School of Economics has followed the strong advice of the Lord Privy Seal in removing its headquarters from London on the outbreak of hostilities. Nearly five hundred students are now billeted in Cambridge, and attending courses organised by the school at New Court, Peterhouse. But the needs of students who cannot leave London have not been forgotten. Since the school's build- ings in Aldwych are now occupied by the Government, premises have been acquired in Cartwright Gardens, W.C. t, and on Monday next, October 3oth, only three weeks late, lectures and classes in preparation for University degrees will begin, the staff travelling to and from Cambridge as required.]
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