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IN accordance with an undertaking given by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to a deputation which waited upon him at the end of 1895, with reference to increased aid from public funds for the University colleges, three gentlemen, viz. Mr. T. H. Warren (President of Magdalen College, Oxford), Prof. D. G. Liveing, F.R.S., and Mr. Robert Chalmers, of the Treasury, were appointed in March 1896 to visit the colleges sharing in the grant made to universities and colleges in Great Britain, and to investigate the character and quality of university work done, as well as to inquire generally into the position which each college occupied both financially and in other respects The visits were concluded by the end of last year, and the report came before the Lords of the Treasury about two months ago. The results of the inquiry showed the Chancellor of the Exchequer that a case had been made out for asking Parliament to increase the sum to the colleges sharing in the grant; he therefore recommended that the total grant to the colleges should be increased from 15,000l. to 25,000l. as from April 1, 1897. The question of the apportionment of this total sum was thereupon referred to a special Committee, whose recommendations, as will be seen from the subjoined Treasury Minute, have been accepted:—
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Grants to University Colleges. Nature 56, 181 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056181a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/056181a0