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LONDON.—Further gifts to the University are announced in connection with the scheme for removing the headquarters to a site behind the British Museum, to which we referred last week. The Duke of Bedford has offered 25,000l and a reduction off the price of the site of 5o,000l, and an anonymous friend of the University has offered 70,000l, making a total amount, with the gifts announced last week, of 305,000l. Although Lord Rosebery's name has been published as representing the University on the board of trustees which has been formed in connection with the scheme, the approval of the Senate has not been given to the proposals. Strong exception was taken to the Chancellor's action at the meeting of the Senate of March 20, when the Vice-Chancellor (Sir William Collins) tendered his resignation in view of what had taken place. At the unanimous wish of the Senate, he afterwards consented to remain in office. Lord Rosebery's explanatory letter was subsequently published, in which he states that by consenting to act as trustee he was committing no one, not even himself, to anything except to his being trustee for certain sums collected for the benefit of the University. From official correspondence which has been communicated to the Press, it appears that both the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer approved the proposed site.
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University and Educational Intelligence . Nature 89, 102–103 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089102a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/089102a0