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THE Leeds University has gained in reputation by the work of its technological departments. One of the principal and earliest of these is that of textile industries, founded in 1874 as part of the Yorkshire College of Science, the institution which has developed into the Leeds University. Textile teaching was then regarded by literary and scientific men, and also by manufacturers and those associated with the weaving industries, as a doubtful educational experiment. It had to be proved in what way a course of textile study could be formulated which would contribute to industrial progress. Such has been, however, the growth of this department, the widening of the curriculum of study, and the success of the students trained, that the late Vice-Chancellor of the University (Sir Nathan Bodington) asserted that the expansion of the University as a whole has been largely influenced by the prosperity of the textile industries department.
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Leeds University: New Textile Extension . Nature 89, 228–229 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089228a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/089228a0