Excerpt from Second Congress of the Universities of the Empire, 1921: Report of Proceedings

AT the final meeting of Delegates to the Congress of Universities Of the Empire which met in London in 1912 it was resolved that it is desirable that similar Congresses should meet in future at intervals of five years. The responsibility for summoning them was entrusted to the Universities Bureau, which, for this, amongst other purposes, it was then decided to establish. This scheme, like many others, was inhibited by the war. After its victorious ending, the Bureau Committee took steps with the Object of arranging for a Congress in 1920; but on the advice of the Government, by whom the Committee were informed that there would still, at that date, be difficulty in securing passages on ocean steamships, the Congress was postponed until the present year.

In August, 1920, all Universities of the Empire were asked to submit proposals for Agenda for the Congress, and in November a sub-committee consisting of the vice-chancellors of Oxford and Cambridge, together with the Chairman, Treasurer and Secretary of the Bureau, having considered such proposals as had been sent in, drew up a programme, which was submitted to the Universities and approved. The Agenda of the first Congress fell into two divisions: (1) Universities in their relation one to another; (2) Universities in their constitutional aspect and in their relation to Teachers, Graduates and Students. The various topics discussed were, for the most part, connected with University administration. It was decided that the Agenda of the Second Congress should have relation to the chief fields of University activity, and especially to fields but recently brought into culti vation and likely, for this or for other reasons, to be viewed from diverse standpoints.

The Agenda sub-committee were then directed to prepare a list of persons whom it might be desirable to invite to read papers to the Congress. Their list was revised at a meeting of the Standing Committee of vice-chancellors and Principals on March 18th, and the invitations were then sent out.

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