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Mr. Ingress Bell) are surmounted by a lofty clock-tower. Alderman C. G. Beale, Vice- 

 Chancellor of the University, died on September i, 1912. 



The late Mr. H. O. Wills has been succeeded by Lord Haldane as Chancellor of Bristol 

 University. 



In December 1911 intimation was given of the decision of Durham University to admit 

 all students professing the Christian faith to Divinity degrees, hitherto limited to the Church 

 of England. 



A large extension of the textile department of Leeds University has been made through 

 the generosity of the Clothworkers Company. Sir Nathan Bodington, Vice-Chancellor of 

 the university, died May 12, 1911, at the age of 63. He was succeeded by Professor M. E. 

 Sadler, C.B., the well-known educationalist (b. 1861). Lord Airedale, formerly Mr. Jas. 

 Kitson, one of the governing body of the university and head of the Airedale Foundry, Leeds, 

 died in March 1911. Sir William Hepton, Lord Mayor of Leeds, who was knighted at the 

 opening of the university extension, met with a fatal Accident while fishing in France on May 

 23, 1.911. A new training college for teachers has been established at a cost of nearly a 

 quarter of a million. 



At Liverpool University the foundation stone of a new engineering laboratory was laid 

 on October 22, 1910. The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in 1910 offered to the 

 university the endowment of a chair in tropical entomology, and in the following year 

 Professor R. Newstead was appointed from the school to the new Dutton Memorial Chair 

 of Entomology. A new lectureship in education, preparatory for teaching in secondary 

 schools, was filled by Mr. Kenneth Forbes (St. John's College, Oxford) in July 1911. In the 

 same year the cost of building a central hall for the Undergraduates' Union, and of furnishing 

 the Union, was undertaken by Captain Gilmour. Sir William Hartley presented a wireless 

 telegraphic installation for the purpose of experiment and research, in 1912. A plant for 

 tests in connection with the erosion of metals has been, established in the metallurgical 

 department; a certificate in architectural design and a diploma in ophthalmic surgery have 

 been instituted. 



London. Under the King's College, London (Transfer) Act, 1908, this college, apart from 

 the faculty of theology, was incorporated in the University of London on January i, 1910. 

 King's College hospital and medical school were separated from the college in the previous 

 year. King's College for Women became a separate institution, and a site is under con- 

 sideration for new buildings to include laboratories for a home science department in con- 

 nection with Queen Mary's hostel for practical training in domestic arts, for which it was 

 announced in February 1912 that 100,000 had been privately subscribed. A further 

 change in the arrangements of King's College took place in June 1911 when King's College 

 School at Wimbledon became a separate corporation. 



Proposals have been put forward for the acquisition of a site for London University to the 

 north of the British Museum in Bloomsbury; and Lord Haldane, as chairman of the Royal 

 Commission on university education in London, stated in May 1912 that large sums had 

 been offered by private donors for. this purpose; but alternative sites have been considered, 

 and the whole question has given rise to some dispute, the reconstitution of the university 

 being sub judice pending the report of the commission. 



A building fund of 100,000 was completed in February 1912 for Bedford College for 

 Women, one of the "schools" of London University. 



At Manchester University a new botanical laboratory was opened in 1911 and a physical 

 laboratory in 1912. The engineering buildings have also been extended. An extension of 

 the Manchester museum was opened on October 30, 1912, providing accommodation for 

 geological, anthropological and Egyptian antiquarian collections. 



Sir Charles Eliot, first vice-chancellor of Sheffield University, accepted in March 1912 the 

 position of principal of the Hong-Kong University; and in November Mr. H. A. L. Fisher, of 

 New College, Oxford, was selected to succeed him in the office. Sir Frederick T. Mappin, 

 Bart., one of the first pro-chancellors, died in March 1909. He was a generous donor to the 

 university and the Mappin Art Gallery. The University Library erected at a cost of 10,000 

 by Mr, William Edgar Allen was opened in 1909. He has also given a medicomechanical 

 institute, the first established in England, to work in connection with the hospitals. New 

 buildings, to be used chiefly for the study of mining and non-ferrous metallurgy, were opened 

 in 1912 in connection with the applied science department. The Company of Drapers 

 contributed 15,000 to the cost, and the corporation make an annual grant of 1,000 for 

 ten years. A training college for teachers has been completed and equipped. 



University Colleges. Earl Grey, who returned to Northumberland at the end of October 

 1911, after several years' governor-generalship of Canada, was shortly afterwards appointed 

 president of Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 



At Brighton a movement was set on foot in 1911 to establish a university college, and in 



January 1912 it was proposed to make it a college of the University of London, with courses 



in the arts, sciences, education and pedagogy at first, and subsequently in medicine and law. 



Hartley University College at Southampton, threatened with the withdrawal of the 



Treasury grants, owing to the lack of the usual support, was able to collect 32,000, partly by 



