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THE progressive party in Cambridge has lost heart about reforming the University from the inside, and a memorial asking for a Royal Commission, which has been signed by six professors and some twenty-two other members of the University, is being generally circulated for signatures. The signatories hope that power may be given to the commission to make statutes in regard to such matters as financial and other relations between the University and the colleges, and the administration of funds devoted to fellowships, scholarships, and exhibitions. A certain number of those usually associated with reform movements in the University have withheld their signatures, partly, apparently, because they mistrust the sort of commission they anticipate the present Government would nominate, and partly because they feel that the resident members have by no means made up their minds on what lines they would wish reform to be initiated; but some at least hold the view that it is not desirable that the commission should have power to frame statutes.
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The Reform Movement at Cambridge . Nature 89, 280–281 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089280b0
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