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PROF. S. P. THOMPSON'S lecture to the Society of Arts on the I5th inst. will greatly assist the scheme for the reform of the University of London. The statistics brought forward by him show how hope lessly inadequate the equipment of the present University appears when compared with that of almost any other University in the world. It can hardly be believed that while Strassburg receives State aid to the extent of £44 per annum for each student, the University of London actually pays the State ten shillings for each student. As the lecturer remarked, a University which has no professors, no museums, no laboratories for research, whose library is practically unused and unusable, and whose sole function is to examine, cannot be called a great University, if, indeed, it be rightly entitled to be called a University at all. Limits of space prevent us from reprinting Prof. Thompson's paper, but we give, on the following page, a table prepared by him to exhibit the material and financial aspects of different Universities. This information, and Lord Reay's remarks upon the paper, should do much to controvert dialectic denunciations, and to show the true position of London University among the Universities of the world.
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The Status of London University. Nature 53, 272–273 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053272c0
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