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IN recent years a corporate university spirit has made itself increasingly felt in London. Its growth has, naturally, been stimulated by the erection of the imposing block of central buildings in Bloomsbury and the grouping there in association with them of several important schools and institutes. It will receive a further notable impulse from the opening of the new Students’ Union. The Union has already proved its value as a centre of student life, and Lord Nuffield's gift last year of £50,000, added to a grant of £25,000 from the National Fitness Council and one of £35,000 from the University Grants Committee, has enabled the Court to proceed to the construction and equipment on a generous scale of a permanent home for it. Among other interesting items of the Principal's report may be mentioned: a closer association with external students through a new system of communicating detailed examination results to all Intermediate Examination candidates and to the institutions responsible for their training; a new Certificate in Natural History for prospective teachers of nature study in primary schools; and the establishment of an editorial board under the chairmanship of Sir Bernard Pares, who is retiring from the directorship of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, to be responsible for the publication of the Slavonic and East European Review.
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University of London: Principal's Report. Nature 144, 108 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144108c0
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