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WE have from time to time informed our readers of the progress made in the attempt to organise the capacities for teaching and learning in London into a more complete and more efficient shape. The movement is most natural and admirable. What we have desired is to warn those interested in it not to lose sight of the full result obtainable while busied in their attempts to remove a particular grievance or further a particular interest. Each constituent of the future University—the Colleges and professional schools, the teachers and the students, the medical corporations, and the Senate and Convocation of the existing University of London—each is indispensable. Any one of these can block the way for the rest. Together they make up amply sufficient elements for the foundation desired, and this foundation would not be strengthened, but weakened, by attempts (which can never be realised) to bring in such heterogeneous elements as the British Museum or the Royal Society, the Government technical schools or the Corporation of the City and its Companies.
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A University for London . Nature 35, 505–506 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/035505a0
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