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THE University of Manchester is appealing for the comparatively small sum of 500,000l. in order to enable it to maintain its present activities effectively and to develop new features. These embrace not only additional buildings and equipment urgently required for the extension of the School of Medicine, especially in the departments of pharmacology and pathology, and for advanced scientific study and research in other important spheres of the University's many-sided work, but also a large increase in the professorial staff, including new professorships in social and political science, physiological chemistry, law, mathematical physics, and French. The present Department of Commerce, established in 1904, is stated to be hopelessly inadequate to the needs of a great commercial centre such as that of southeast Lancashire, and demands, if it is to serve its purpose worthily, a considerable strengthening of its teaching staff. The University has recently established a new degree, namely, the doctorate in philosophy (the Ph.D. degree), granted upon a course of advanced study and research, which will necessarily involve a large expenditure in staff and equipment.
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University Developments at Manchester. Nature 105, 278–279 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105278b0
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