Calendar: 1891-1892 Page 738

1 ΚΕΡΟΚΤ Bishop Barry has consented to serve on the Council and they welcome with great satisfaction his return among them The increasing work involved in the general administration of the College seemed to the Council to render it desirable that an officer should be added to the staff who could give the Principal additional assistance in his duties and they have accordingly created the office of Vice-Principal The duties of the Vice-Principal are to assist the Principal as he may desire in the disciplinary work of the College and to represent him in his absence except in respect to the special work of the several Departments In the Theological Department however he will act as Dean and he will also discharge the duties hitherto assigned to the Censor The Council have had particular pleasure in appointing to this office the Rev Knowling who for the past seven years as Censor and Chaplain has rendered invaluable services to the College The question of Teaching University for London has made considerable progress during the year Last summer the Council assented to Scheme proposed to them after many conferences by the Senate of the University of London according to which the two London Colleges would have had representation on the Senate direct and indirect affording fair security for their due consideration in the development of London education and for the protection of their own interests It would not have given them all the freedom they desired but in deference to the principal report of the Royal Commission recommending that some compromise of this kind should be attempted the Council did not feel justi- tied in rejecting the concessions which the Senate had offered But the Scheme was no sooner made known than the Provincial Colleges protested against the exclusive privileges which in their view would be granted to the London Col- leges and the Senate in deference to this protest entirely reorganized their Scheme By the admission of representatives of the Provincial Colleges and of some other interests they increased the number of the Senate in such manner as