Calendar: 1890-1891 Page 712

1 report would promote the main objects of the Colleges The Council feel that if the Senate would consent to such arrangements as would ensure the due influence of the Governing Bodies and of the Teaching Staff of the two Colleges in directing the courses of instruction and the examinations for London Collegiate Students there would be great advantage in uniting with body of so much distinction and influence as the present University of London But if the ultimate proposals of the Senate should involve the submission of this College and University College to the practical control of an authority in which they would have an inadequate voice it would be inconsistent with the best interests of the College and consequently with their duty to assent to any such arrange- ments They entertain however at the present time good hope that the Senate 13 now disposed to recognize their claims They feel it to be absolutely essential to the welfare of the College and to the interests of University Education in London that the work done in the Colleges should receive University recognition and they have every confidence that in one form or another the object for which they have been contending during the past four years will soon be attained