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LONDON.—An important announcement was published on August 13, to the effect that the President of the Board of Education has appointed a Departmental Committee to inquire and report, after consultations with the bodies and persons concerned, as to the steps by which effect shall be given to the scheme of the report of the Royal Commission on University Education in London, and to recommend the specific arrangements and provisions which may be immediately adopted for that purpose, and as the basis for the necessary legislation. Sir George H. Murray, K.C.B., who was formerly at the Treasury, and later Secretary to the Post Office, has been appointed chairman of the Committee. The other members are Sir Amherst Selby-Bigge, Secretary to the Board of Education, Sir John Rose Bradford, Sec.R.S., Sir William MacCormick, Dr. George Franklin, Dr. Arthur Keith, Mr. John Kemp (one of the secretaries to the Royal Commission), and Mrs. Henry Sidgwick. Dr. Frank Heath, the other secretary to the Royal Commission, is appointed secretary to the Committee.
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University and Educational Intelligence . Nature 91, 652–653 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091652a0
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