This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...new College prospered and grew rapidly. Before it had been much more than a year in operation two additional Chairs were founded for Biology and Engineering (1876). A couple of years later its programme was enlarged by starting an Arts Faculty with a Chair of Classics and another of Literature and History. In 1884 a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...new College prospered and grew rapidly. Before it had been much more than a year in operation two additional Chairs were founded for Biology and Engineering (1876). A couple of years later its programme was enlarged by starting an Arts Faculty with a Chair of Classics and another of Literature and History. In 1884 a Medical Faculty was formed by taking in the Leeds School of Medicine, an institution over half a century old. It had been founded in 1831, three years after the School of Medicine at Sheffield. In 1887 the Yorkshire College, as it was now called, affiliated itself to the Victoria University, which hitherto had included only the Liverpool College and Owens College, Manchester. In 1904 provincial universities came into fashion, and Leeds obtained a full-blown academic charter. That is virtually the whole history of the College proper. The technical department grew up outside of the academic circle, and has a very interesting history of its own. While the Leeds people were struggling with South Kensington science, which then began nowhere and ended nowhere, an outside body supplied the industrial science that was in reality most needed. The first technical Chair, that of textile industries, was founded by the Clothworkers' Company of London, and is maintained by it to this day. This and its allied department of dyeing are undoubtedly the most distinctive features of the Leeds University as it now exists. The Clothworkers' Court, which forms one end of the fine pile of buildings in College Road, is one of the best examples of technical education in this country. It is one of the few experiments that have fully realised the hopes and intentions of their founders. It is a success in every way--in drawing pupils, in teaching them thoroughly, and in rai...
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