Plea for Undiminished Grants:
Memorial of Protest to be Submitted It being proposed to reduce the Treasury grant to the Universities and University Colleges of Great Britain for next year from £1,500,- 000 to £1,200,000, a memorial' of protest has been addressed to the Prime Minister by the Sister Universities of Birmingham, Durham, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, and Sheffield. The Vicc-Chancellors of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London, Bristol, Wales, Glasgow, and Aberdeen have expressed their concurrence with this protest. It is urged that such a reduction would gravely embarrass the Universities in their work, especially in the development of advanced studies in science, medicine, literature, and_ technology, and restrict the work of the Universities in adult education.
The memorial begins by acknowledging gratefully the aid given in the past. It points out that the Universities have done their utmost to retrench their outlay. It recalls the fact that when in 1914 it was proposed to suspend the grants to the Universities the proposal was, on consideration, rejected, and Mr. Austen Chamberlain later acknowledged the wisdom of this when he said there was not an aspect of national life in which the acquired experience of the Universities did not render assistance without which it was difficult to say how we could have won the victory which eventually crowned our efforts.
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