The Albert University

Abstract

THE remarks of Mr. Thiselton Dyer upon the draft charter of the “Albert University” have my fullest concurrence. I have never desired to see such a University as is sketched in that charter set up in London by the side of the existing University. The charter and the general scheme of its proposals never obtained the sanction of the professoriate of University College whilst I was a member of that body; and many of us were as active as circumstances allowed us to be, in opposing its federal principles and bureaucratic tendency. That University and King's Colleges should be united in some way to form a University is one proposition: that the University should take the particular form excogitated by Sir George Young is another. It is well that it should be generally known that the elaborate (and to my mind mischievous) constitution sketched in the draft charter of the Albert University is the product of the devotion and ingenuity of Sir George Young, an active member of the Council of University College.