CHAPTER III 



THE BRISTOL PERIOD 



THE years following 1870 saw the beginning of that 

 great national movement which has resulted in planting 

 new universities and colleges connected with universities 

 over the United Kingdom. Up to that time institutions 

 which gave higher education and instruction corre- 

 sponding to that which was provided by the ancient 

 universities of England, Scotland, and Ireland were only 

 to be found in Manchester and London. In the former 

 city the college which bears his name was founded by 

 John Owens in 1851. In London there were three 

 colleges, namely University College (the original Uni- 

 versity of London) founded in 1826, King's College 

 founded in 1829, and Bedford College for Women 

 founded in 1849. For nearly twenty years these in- 

 stitutions struggled, with somewhat indifferent success, 

 against mid- Victorian prejudice and nervousness, as 

 indicated by the sensation produced by the publication 

 of Essays and Reviews and the storm aroused by Darwin's 

 Origin of Species and The Descent of Man. But in 1871 

 the first step toward a new state of things was repre- 



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