Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . pportunities it affords for the inculcationof good habits. A passing reference has already beenmade to London Universit)-. Formerly theuniversity represented merely an examiningbody, with headquarters at BurlingtonHouse, possessed of powers, analogous, ona major scale, to those which enable theCollege of Preceptors to dispense diplomasto teachers, to grant degrees, which in ments, ^\•ith the result that large numbers ofboys and girls in all parts of the countryenter for the January and June
Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . pportunities it affords for the inculcationof good habits. A passing reference has already beenmade to London Universit)-. Formerly theuniversity represented merely an examiningbody, with headquarters at BurlingtonHouse, possessed of powers, analogous, ona major scale, to those which enable theCollege of Preceptors to dispense diplomasto teachers, to grant degrees, which in ments, ^\•ith the result that large numbers ofboys and girls in all parts of the countryenter for the January and June each \-ear. Our picture on this pageshows a group of students up fir the examination rooms at the Im-perial Institute. Of college life, indeed, in the usualacceptance of the term, there is practicallynone in London. The statement, however,takes no account of the theological trainingcolleges. Of these there are several, suchas St. Marks, at Chelsea, and the LondonSchool of Di\init_\- at Highbury, where thepale student is trained for the Anglicanpulpit. Hackney Col-. OrTSIDE LONDON UNIVERSITY : EX.^MINATION DAY. certain faculties (notably that of medi-cine) carried a world-wide reputation. Byan Act of 1900, however, the scope ofthe university was enlarged, and teachingas well as examining work was under-taken. The principal colleges of theuniversity, which now has its headquarters atthe Imperial Institute in South Kensington,are Uni\-ersity College and Kings College,which afford every facility for instruction,but are non-residential, the students, of eithersex, meeting generally only at lectures andexaminations. Special reference ought tobe made to the matriculation of LondonUniversity, the preliminary examinationwhich is the first step to higher in matric. absolves from entranceexamination at most educational establish- lege and New Collegeat Hampstead, bothCongregational intendenc}-, the BaptistCollege in RegentsPark, and the JewsCol
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