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ingly higher standard of value should be the return, both as 

 regards the work done by the recipients and as regards the 

 consolidation of University influence upon the whole body of 

 recognised teachers in the Schools and Colleges. Beyond this 

 stage of full fellowship, at the Professorship grade, the Uni- 

 versity teacher appointed and paid by the University can 'be left 

 to work out his own intellectual salvation and, as a student 

 among students, to contribute to the common welfare. 



The First Duty of the new University of London. — The first duty 

 of the University is not to favour this or that College or School 

 by the allocation of the scanty resources over which it has 

 control to ordinary College professorships or lectureships, but 

 to strengthen itself, and at the same time the whole field of its 

 influence, by devoting its resources to the direct encouragement 

 of research in association with teaching, and to the centralisation 

 by that agency of the intellectual forces now scattered in these 

 Colleges, Schools, and Institutions. 



I am not pleading for the separate endowment of research, 

 but for the further official recognition of research as an integral 

 constituent of normal teaching at all grades of the University 

 programme. Indeed, so far from urging that the " University 

 research fellow " should devote the whole of his time to 

 research, I should support the precisely opposite principle, and 

 insist that some portion of his time should be devoted to 

 teaching. It is upon regular teaching in some form that 

 the average researcher must ultimately rely for his regular 

 livelihood. This is especially so in the Faculty of Science and 

 in that of Medicine, since the Hospital physician and surgeon 

 is, above all, a teacher of the principles and practice of his 

 profession. It is less so in other faculties which serve in 

 greater measure as the channels and ante-chambers of the 

 practical and commercial and legal and political professions. 



But in any profession there is no mental gymnastic more 

 valuable to the mind of the researcher than the instruction of 

 other minds in the field of knowledge to which his own special 

 interests belong. 



The Royal Commission. — The organisation of the University 

 of London is now under the scrutiny of a Royal Commission. 

 The field covered by its reference is vast and complicated, and 



