A WORTHY HOME.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 81, 2 April 1912, Page 8

A WORTHY HOME.

The fourth report of the Royal Commission on University Education n London, issued last December, dealt with the housing of London University. The Commissioners stated that it had become clear, as the inquiry proceeded, that the inception of any scheme which thfey might be able to recommend and which Parliament might sanction would be seriously delayed unless some steps had been previously taken to provide for the University} as reconstructed, a site? and buildings more convenient and adequate than those it now occupied. They thought that, whatever its future constitution might be, it was a matter of national importance-that the University of London should be recognised and adopted as a great public institution, and that it was fitting and right that such an institution should have for is headquarters permanent buildings appropriately in design to its dignity and importance, adequate in extent and specially constructed for the purpose, situated conveniently for the work it had to do, bearing its name, and under its own control.

The University of London, it was stated, must depend, like other universities in this country, to a large extent, for the liberal support necessary for its full development upon the endowment of private benefactors. The Commissioners thought such benefactors were to be found, and the in-s quiry had impressed them so forcibly with the almost unlimited possibilities of the University in the future that they could not easily conceive a more splendid opportunity than its endowment and the provision, of a noble and suitable building for its homo afforded for the liberality of the citizen. An anoymous donor recently gave £IOO,OOO towards the fund. Altogether £1,000,000 is wanted.