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classical, fitted only for those students who sought 

 B.A. or M.A. degree. To this, and other reasons of 

 weight, he added two suggestions of distinct signi- 

 ficance. One was that scientific teaching should be 

 put in a more prominent position than it then 

 occupied, and further, that there should be periodical 

 meetings of the teaching staff to discuss the internal 

 management of the college.* 



The most influential of the original trustees were 

 undoubtedly men who attached more value to 

 classical than to scientific training, as the stipends 

 respectively awarded to the two classes of professors 

 sufficiently indicated. The Principal, Dr. Scott, was 

 a man of the highest intellectual culture, but there 

 was then small appreciation of, and no demand for, 

 this kind of culture among the hard-headed and 

 eminently practical men of Lancashire. Whilst they 

 honoured the intellectual strength of the Principal, 

 his was not the line in which they wished their sons 

 to be trained; hence he failed to gain their entire 

 confidence. 



The concluding defect reported by Professor 

 Frankland was one severely felt by the science 

 professors ; it was that they found much difficulty 

 in obtaining access to the Principal. The con- 

 viction that some change in the relations of Prin- 

 cipal and Professor was necessary, led to a meet- 

 ing of the latter body at the house of Professor 

 Frankland, where a resolution was adopted and 

 * Thompson, p. 157. 



