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IF I may be allowed another word on this subject, I should like to say that, having been all along a keen advocate of the establishing of a strong professorial University in London, not necessarily in slavish imitation of the German system (of which I happen to know something), but combining the main features of its professoriate (of which I think I showed my appreciation in a paper read at Bath in 1888, before Section B of the British Association) with the essential elements of the present University of London, and believing that the draft charter of the Senate, which was presented to Convocation, contained in it the potentialities, out of which (with the exercise of a little common-sense to soften down such asperities as might cause friction in its initiatory working, together with a little patience to allow for the time necessary in all evolutionary changes) a strong professorial University could be developed, I voted for the Senate's scheme, and still think the adverse vote of Convocation the greatest disaster that has befallen the University in the half-century of its existence.
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IRVING, A. The Albert University. Nature 44, 248 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/044248b0
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