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IT is surprising to learn that the Empire boasts, at the present moment, fifty-four seats, of higher education entitled by Charter or by Act of a Colonial Legislature to the style of university. Advisedly we write, at the present moment. Last summer Queensland and Hong Kong added two to the list; the University of Western Australia came into being on January 1; those of Calgary and British Columbia are still younger. It is the age of universities. When the Victorian Universities of Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, and Leeds made their appearance they were viewed with considerable misgiving from Oxford and Cambridge. The older universities feared lest they should suffer severely from the competition. The number of their students and their efficiency have increased as rapidly as their rivals'.
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Congress of Universities of the Empire . Nature 89, 385–386 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089385a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/089385a0