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THIS Report is a disappointment. The spectacle of three eminent lawyers taking an eminently legal view of a question, and three teachers an educational view, is instructive and amusing, but it is not business. Passing over, for the present, the question how far its conclusions are discredited beforehand, by the dissent, on the material point at issue, of all the Commissioners who have had experience of teaching, we shall consider the principal Report from our own standpoint; which is that of a complete impartiality as between the University of London, the petitioning Colleges, and the other institutions and interests concerned, and of an earnest desire to see established in London a real Ùniversity for teaching and research—that is to say, one of which the function is the dissemination and advancement of knowledge, while the examinations are relegated to their proper place, as accessories to study, not fetters on the teaching.
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Report of the Royal Commission on a University for London. Nature 40, 121–122 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040121a0
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