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    * 6 t&ktttfx ?) Wrt& £ i * ^ U i p th £ acces ^ biUtjtpff acaj ^ ical de £ tt&k ik ; fyijhty desirable , ^ considered ineialy w rejaia ^ Jio iheiibpfavk ^ ^ , / Vr : > fb srich 9 ^ the readers of the Month ly Reposito ryas may

    happett « o n&v £ seen tne representations of the Gavermpejit pfah of k new Metropolitan University , contained ia . a ' S ^ atyehrqent respecting Charter / circulated last year by the Oonpioil oFthe London University in Gower street , and who may hay *

    beard nothing farther on the subject , the preceding argument may have appeared somewhat superfluous as contending ^ ca legislative measure already ensured . But unfortunately | fcjop ^ app ^ aits , by a parliamentary paper just printed ., that owipg . ib sortie W ^ fgnty influence or other , Ministers propose to substitute fbt the measure we were then taught to expect , one ^ f a very different character .

    Th ^; Cetitral University , so announced lastyear , was described ( fC dn infbrmation communicated by the Government to tte Cdtitic ^ l '") as *^ cqna ^ prising a board of examiners to . ^ . . ?| fk » pbinted byth « Crown , with power to confer degrees o ^ canoi dattt Jrom , all parts of the United Kingdom , anil from evtfry sentintofi y &f education , whether chartered or vnincprpoffiLei } . " * .,,

    lf ' tti g preceding argument as to the benefits to generpj qqu * cation , to bq derived from making degrees accessible to < all who hdv ? the attainments declared requisite ^ witfyoyt regard , ^ to the place Wherein , * or the circumstances wheyp !| DQ | er ^ h ey 4 p ^ y have rhftde them , be a sound one , then it follows that the plau thu ^ described would have conferred thosQ beueftts - ['" ? ? ., . Jg ^ aft CJlu ^ rj

    Th ^^ lairi iwyw announ ced in ' " a copy ^ of t ^ e ^^ teni for London University and London University } f # \] p&A > ' W ** Benttdild the H 6 u ^ e 6 f Commons on the last ^ y QFthe Ses ^ pp , fttid'bfde ^ ed to be printed , has this pregnable , ^ Wbvreo ^ w * ba * tfe deemed it to be the duty of our Roy ^ . 1 D ^ ce ^ iTQ ^ th « advancement of religion and morality , and the prompti ^ . ^ F useful knowledge , to hold forth to all classes of ow f ^ i ^ iui subjects , witlh * out any distinction whatsoever , au euqpiiragement for purbuing a regular and liberal course of edqc ^ tujfl ^ & > el Nothitig ^ can be better than this preamble anii the ai » t clause which foUowr U : — " Now know ye that , for , th ^ P « rpo »^

    of ascertaining , by means of examinatioas , the persons who . fay ? acquired proficiency in literature , " &c , " and of revvarcjirig % tyf * K by acaderaical degrees as evidence Of their r ^ specjtivq ft ^ i ^^ merits , 6 cc . we will , &c » A . B . and CD . op * bQ ^ yv ^ iUo af ^ L corpornte , b y the nain ^ bf the Un iverstty of ^ pi ^^^; . , f ! . ^ ^ ^ , So fa ^ all fa hi hftrniony with the measure , ^ ' o ^ } f&P \ year ., audvvijth thie partible of thrs j yet- ^ ii a ^ emu b ^ ff ljjr Cf ^ rt dible—after alI >^ W * fewd ih ' thb mh ^ ena ^^ wwUut ^ nU-i poH 0 i ^ * Tiflil ' He \ Aixti t ! m WcWmSs fto % e

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1836, page 673, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2663/page/21/