Calendar: 1961-1962 Page 396

ANNUAL REPORT ensuing quinquennium When on its last visitation the University Grants Committee strongly recommended the Delegacy to confine the College's hopes of expansion within the area of the quadrilateral the disappointment naturally felt by members of the College at this pronouncement was somewhat eased by the explicit assurance that if this restraint were shown the College could confidently expect the fullest support of the Grants Committee in its efforts to provide reason- ably adequate accommodation for its existing numbers on the Strand site The greatest care skill and ingenuity on the part of the architects and the planning committee will be called for but the fact that the promised land seems to have been brought appreciably nearer has greatly heartened all in College and increased the enthusiasm and diligence with which they are applying themselves to the exacting demands that planning on such major scale is laying upon them It has been agreed that the size of this six-faculty college should be about two thousand six hundred students in all namely about two thousand one hundred undergraduates three hundred and eighty post- graduates reading for higher degrees or otherwise engaged in research and about one hundred and twenty reading for the Postgraduate Certificate in Education To provide lecture-rooms staff-rooms libraries laboratories common rooms refectories students' union etc for this number and variety of students and the necessary academic administrative technical clerical and other staffs in what will be essentially one building on this small site will be most difficult and complicated problem which will tax to the utmost architectural skill and planning ingenuity However if it can be achieved satisfactorily it will give the College an enormous advantage to have in such close association such range and variety of studies there should then be little danger of the departmentalism and fragmentation of knowledge and unawareness of other studies than one's own of which so much is heard at the present time in educated circles with justifiable fear Half Moon Lane The College has however been concerned with other site problems in addition to the main one in the Strand The department of Botany which requires to rear and grow plants for its researches clearly cannot have gardening facilities in the Strand and in 1952 it moved most of its work to 68 Half Moon Lane Dulwich and later established another section near King's College Hall on Denmark Hill This tripartite division of the department has been very unsatisfactory and frustrating both to the more advanced students and to the academic staff and has seriously restricted and at times gravely impeded their research The sister department of Zoology which is still in the Strand is most inadequately housed there and is likewise restricted both for teaching and research and relief must be found for it also Finally Zoology and the medical departments need to have animals for their researches and the accommodation available on the Strand site for the housing of