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,J" . ♦ — PROFESSOR J. C. COLLINS. (BY -TELKGC,\rH —PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPSTBIGHT.) ~,(Rec. September 17, 0.15 a.m.) London, September 16. The death is announced of Professor John, C. Collins, of Birmingham University. • hi • '• vrr^ —~ ■ .'"Professor, John C., Collins, author, essayist, and leoturer, aud Professor of English Literature at Birmingham University since lfllM, had been engaged since graduating at Oxford in ; ]£72 ,in Journalism, education,' aud in publio lecturing. He took part in many controversies iu the interests, of higher education, and in plehding for the recognition of-literature as distinguished from plnlblogy at the uuiversities. He was prominently connected with the University' Extension/ for/which society he de livered upwards of three thousand lectures; am wrote much on the subject of higher popula) education;,.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 304, 17 September 1908, Page 7
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121OBITUARY. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 304, 17 September 1908, Page 7
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