Excerpt from Some Aspects of Modern University Education: An Address Delivered at the Closing Ceremony of the Session 1902-3, June 19th, 1903

Successive reforms the quality of their teaching was improved and its range was greatly widened; religious tests were abolished; the doors Of the Universities were opened to large classes Of the community against which they had formerly been closed. Oxford and Cambridge came to be in fact, and no longer in name only, national Universities. But meanwhile a rapidly growing demand for higher education had gradually created a series Of new institutions Of various kinds. The earliest Of these sprang from a sense of the fact that the benefits Of the ancient Universities were restricted to the few. The metropolis was the first seat of such new foundations. University College, London, was established in 1828, and King's College in the following year. London University, as an Examining Board, received its first charter in 1836. The needs of the North of England also claimed attention. In 1833 a charter was granted to the University of Durham. Owens College, Manchester, arose in 1851. The period from 1870 to 1885 was marked by signal activity. A series of University Colleges then came into existence, including those of Leeds, Liverpool, Birmingham, Bristol, Aberystwyth, Cardiff, and Bangor. Two such Colleges, those of Nottingham and Sheffield, grew out Of the University Extension movement, which has since produced also Colleges of a Special type at Reading, Exeter, and Colchester. The next great step was the formation of the Federal Universities. The Colleges at Man chester, Liverpool, and Leeds were federated in the Victoria University, to which a charter was given in 1880. Your own University of Wales received its charter in 1893. Since then some events have occurred which are Of great importance for the future of our University education. The University Of Birmingham has been founded. The University Of London has been reconstituted as a teaching body. The federal Victoria University is to be dissolved. Liverpool has received a charter for a University of its own. There will be a University of Manchester; and Leeds is to be the seat of another. Thus in England and Wales we are to have at least nine Universities. And it has recently been announced that there is a project for establishing a University of Sheffield.

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