The fiftieth anniversary of the opening of University College, London,
occurs this year. It is intended to celebrate the occa- sion by enlarging the work which University College is now doing, and for this purpose Lord Granville is on Tuesday, July 9th next, to lay the first stone of a new extension of the College buildings, and preside at the luncheon with which the occasion is to be celebrated. The College has, indeed, quite outgrown its home. The Fine-Art Department has been obliged to refuse pupils, and as the faculties of Arts and Laws are to be opened to women, and as the classes of engineering and applied science, which need much practical illus- tration, are cramped for room, and the junior school is rapidly increasing, the need of larger buildings is becoming urgent. A great effort will be made, and ought to be made. University College, London, has done great things in the past, but it will hardly be worthy of its past, if it does not do much greater things in the future. Growth is the beat proof of a healthy root.
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