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IN the previous article we speak of the advancement of of scientific research, and here we wish to refer to an excellent article in Monday's Daily News connected with the advancement of education. The misuse and idleness of the untold wealth of the London City Companies we have frequently referred to; but until the Daily News unearthed the facts contained in its article, few people were aware of the existence of an institution which is one of the most striking anachronisms of our time, and the uselessness of whose endowments is provoking, now that the importance of scientific education to all classes is beginning to be keenly felt, and when its progress is so much hampered by want of means. The writer in the Daily News deserves the greatest credit for the trouble he must have put himself to in obtaining the facts about the institution known as “Gresham College,” and for the uncompromising way in which he has stated the facts of the case. It is indeed a hopeful sign of the recognised importance of sound scientific teaching, when the daily press espouses its cause so heartily.
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GRESHAM COLLEGE . Nature 11, 2–4 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/011002a0
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