UNIVERSITY EDUCATION.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 26, 1 February 1904, Page 5

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION.

friIKSS ASSOCIATION 1 LONDON, 31st January. ' liord Dnnraven recommends the establishment of tho King's College within Dublin University as being «» Catholic in its atinos-phero as Trinity Collego is Protestant. A mooting of tho Catholic laity in Dublin endorsed (he principle of Lord Dunraven's propcM.al.s-, and tho bishops likc-wii-o a give with it. Air. Redmond in.si.sks that the Government should make practical proposals on the subject this ne.i-.sion. [In October lnst it was cabled Uiat Mr. George Wyndham, Chief Secretary for Ireland, w.is preparing a Bill providing for one national Irirfi University where Protestants and Catholics were to receive education in common, with prlipcr vcligioas safeguards. Tlw University was to consist of thruo constituent solf-governing colleges — Trinity Collego, Dublin; Queen's Colk-ge, Belfast; and (ho Catholic College, St. Stephen's; the lost-named with initial lay cotiirol. It was reported that tho Government would offer tho Trinity Collego nut.hcritie.s £10,000 por yoar if they •supported the Bill, and would offer to endow Queen's College with £15,000 a year, and tho Catholic Collego with £45,000.]