Excerpt from The Empire Review and Magazine, Vol. 23: February, 1912

In obedience to the recommendations of the influential Committees already referred to, the Governing Body have allotted for the building Of a new Royal School Of Mines, a sum Of for the building for Advanced Engineering a sum of and for the new Departments of Botany, Plant Physiology and Woods and Fibres a sum of For these and other buildings SO considerable a sum as has been provided: Up to the present, has either been expended or allotted for new equipment for teaching purposes. The staff employed in teaching work, formerly 82, now amounts to 121. The sum provided for their salaries, formerly is now per annum. But a more interesting statement can be made concerning the number Of students who now avail themselves Of the opportunities afforded them. The number in the three Colleges when the Governing Body assumed charge in 1907 was 665. At the commencement of the present session the number had increased to 843. The number doing advanced and research work in 1907 was 24. Last session there were 102.

Three College sessions is not a long period in the history of a new institution having aims so high and so definitely related to Imperial and industrial efficiency. I venture to think that the work which has been accomplished in so short a time is remark; ably creditable to the body which has undertaken it.

Dr. Bovey, in the article which I have before mentioned, has dwelt upon the subject of character-training in collegiate institutions. An institution which does not recognise this as equivalent in value to any other training, will certainly fail to contribute men of worth to the service of the country. It would be useless to endeavour to indicate how certain schools have succeeded in imparting special qualities to their men. Nor is it possible to set forth the circumstances which make for the production of the ideal human article for the world's work. But amongst all that might be enumerated, there are surely none of greater importance than the endeavour to bring together and to mix students of different faculties, varying tastes, and widely-diverse dispositions. Schools have tones of their own. It is beyond the powers Of Governing Bodies to mould their material into any desired Shape. But they can afford the means whereby certain social processes can operate. Therefore, no little consideration has been given to matters having for their object the introduction of a collegiate and corporate life common to the three Colleges. The Governors have built, at a cost Of nearly a handsome and well-constructed Union, and have presented it to the staff and past and present students. They have thus introduced a new feature into the life of the Science Schools Of South Kensington.

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