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is the publication of a letter dated June 27th, 1903, 

 from Lord Rosebery to Lord Monkswell, the Chairman 

 of the London County Council. This contains a 

 proposal to found, in connection with the University of 

 London, an Imperial Technical College, after the 

 model of the great institution at Charlottenburg, near 

 Berlin. 



An influential Committee, under the chairmanship 

 at first of Sir Francis Mowatt and afterwards of Mr. 

 Haldane, has (1906) issued a valuable report as to how 

 the above proposal can best be carried out. For this 

 purpose a new Governing Body is to be created upon 

 whom the duty of carrying out the scheme will 

 devolve. The Government will hand over to this 

 Body the Royal College of Science and the new 

 Chemical and Physical laboratories recently erected in 

 South Kensington with a yearly grant of ^"20,000. 

 The City and Guilds Institute in Exhibition Road will 

 also become a part of the New Institution, and the 

 County Council will, it is believed, give a subsidy of 

 ,20,000 per annum, whilst Messrs. Wernher, Beit & Co. 

 have placed a sum of ; 100,000 at the disposal of the 

 Governing Body for building purposes. The new 

 Body will work in accord with the Senate of the Uni- 

 versity, and will in due course, it is to be hoped, be 

 amalgamated with the University. 



Other proposals of importance are now being brought 

 forward with the view of increasing the usefulness of the 

 University and of making it worthy of the metropolis 

 of the Empire. 



Lord Rosebery's letter inaugurated an entirely new 

 policy on the part of English statesmen and is the 

 crowning point of a long series of endeavours first 

 made by the late Lord Playfair and afterwards by the 

 Royal Commission on Technical Education (1882-84), 



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