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THE discussion in the House of Lords on July 24 concerning the present state of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge serves again to bring prominently before the public the importance of well-equipped universities to th nation. The Bishop of Birmingham asked the Government to appoint a Royal Commission “to inquire into the endwment, government, administration, and teaching of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and their constituent colleges, in order to secure the best use of their resources for all classes of the community.” The Earl of Crewe announced at the end of the discussion that the Government requires time to consider the question, and that for the present a Commission will not be appointed. The Bishop of Birmingham unerringly exposed many of the weak points in the older universities as they are administered to-day. “The system of prize fellowships as it was established by the last Commission is,” he remarked, “a mistake—post-graduate endowments should be used to subsidise either those who are to be teachers or those who are engaged in researches such as are worthy of advanced students.” There were, of course, many champions to defend the present condition of things, but both sides expressed themselves as appreciative of the value to the community of higher learning in all departments of knowledge.
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University Reform . Nature 76, 337–339 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076337a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/076337a0