Calendar: 1951-1952 Page 42

historical sketch 41 from 1939 onwards the hospitality of Bristol and its University They did not escape air raids and 000 books brought from the College library were destroyed by fire but in the smaller city the daily journeys to and from work were always easier The Faculty of Medical Science went for one year to the University of Glasgow and then to the nearer University of Birmingham returning to the London buildings in 1942 In 1941 the Faculty of Laws joined the corresponding Faculties of University College and the London School of Economics at the University of Cambridge so that their usual intercollegiate arrangements for teaching could be resumed The remaining Faculties returned to London from Bristol in 1943 but the intercollegiate Laws system had to be carried on in Cambridge until 1945 In London in October 1940 bomb destroyed the women's cloakrooms under the quadrangle two later ones damaged the Mechanical Engineering laboratories and put the East Refectory out of action for five years in December 1944 rocket shattered all the windows in the south front of the buildings full Report on the evacuation of the College in the war years was issued in December 1945 and is bound up with the College Calendar for 1946-47 Roll of Honour printed in the Annual Report for 1945-46 is bound up with the Calendar for 1947-48 Courses in Psychology were carried on during the war with the help of the King's College staff at Birkbeck College and were eventually transferred there permanently so also were all evening classes in the Faculty of Arts except those for the Honours Degree in Spanish Evening Classes in Natural Science had already been transferred to Birk- beck College before 1939 The present constitution of the College though somewhat complicated may be stated in few words It is divided into two sections under separate government one containing the Faculties of Arts Laws Science Medicine and Engineering is an Incorporated College and School of the University of London under the control of Delegacy appointed by and acting with the authority of the University the other section the Theological Department is School of tho Uni- versity but is governed by the Council of the College assisted by the Theological Committee The Council retains no authority over the secular side Notwithstanding this separation in government the two sections still constitute one College The Principal appointed by the Crown is Principal of the whole College the Dean elected by the Council is Dean of the whole College The Secretary and his administrative staff and the Librarian and his staff are common to both sides and are appointed by the Delegacy and the Theological Committee jointly There is full provision in the Statutes for joint meetings of the Theological Committee and the Delegacy and of the two Professorial Boards for the consideration and decision of matters in which they have common interests The Chapel the Hall and the Refectory are held for the use of the whole College and there is one students' Union Society β