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Claim to University Status A MEETING in support of the claim of the Imperial College of Science and Technology for power to confer degrees and for university status was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on Friday, June 4. Lord Morris, who presided, stated that the meeting was not called in hostility to any university or Government Department, or in disparagement of the atmosphere created by the universities. The governing body, the professorial staff, and the students, now numbering 1300, were unanimous in support of the claim of the Imperial College for power to confer degrees in its own subjects or faculties. The students were seriously handicapped by having to go to an external body for a degree, because of the current preference in the industrial and professional worlds for a degree to a diploma. Lord Morris moved a resolution urging the Prime Minister, the Lord President of the Council, and the President of the Board of Education to take the matter into serious consideration. The resolution also declared that any further delay would cause a growing, sense of injustice.
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The Imperial College. Nature 105, 471 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105471a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/105471a0