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AT a recent meeting of the governors of Owens College, Manchester, the Committee on the proposed University charter presented a report. It appears that “negotiations have been actively carried on with the Council of the Yorkshire College, Leeds, partly by letter and partly by means of interviews between members of the respective committees. The suggestions agreed to by the Council of the Yorkshire College, Leeds, provide that the Owens College shall be named in the charter establishing the University as the first college in it; that the president and the principal of the Owens College shall be the first chancellor and vice-chancellor of the new University; that its locus shall be Manchester; and that in the system of proportionate representation proposed for the governing and the executive bodies of the University, the Owens College shall in either case begin with the maximum number of representatives allowed by the scheme.” To obviate objection to a local name, that of Victoria University is suggested. The report and draft memorial were approved of, and the Committee were requested to make arrangements for the presentation of the memorial to the Lord President of the Privy Council at as early a date as possible, and for carrying out the other suggestions of the report, which was passed.
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University and Educational Intelligence . Nature 20, 22 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020022a0
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