The University of London

Abstract

PROBABLY before this letter is in type the Charter of the Albert, or, as it is now to be called, the Gresham, University, will have been presented to Parliament. What will be its ultimate fate remains to be seen. But I have sat through a long night's debate in the House of Commons to see a Government turned out in the small hours of the morning on a University question. I do not suppose that the proposed Charter will raise an issue of that importance. But I think that the Government may not be unmindful of past history, and, in what is probably the last session of a moribund Parliament, may not be willing to push very vigorously what is perhaps the crudest scheme of University organization which has ever been proposed in this country.