The Newcastle Daily Chronicle published, a week or two ago,
a remarkable letter from the Dean of Durham on the growth of the Newcastle College of Science, of which Dr. Lake is the Warden. That letter showed how rapid has been the growth of the institution within the last twelve years, which, from a College containing ten or twelve professors and a, hundred students, had grown into one with twenty-six or twenty-eight professors and upwards of 2,000 students. The Dean, whose energy in relation to the College seems to show no diminution with years, is now engaged in trying to raise another £10,000, so to enlarge the buildings, and also the general scope of the work of the College, as to make its physical appliances, and also its courses of lectures, what is now needed in order that the College shall embrace not merely scientific but a fair share of literary and theological culture. This cannot be done with- out more means, and the fear is that the depressed condition of trade may render it difficult to raise those means. We hope, however, that there will be a generous response to the Dean's appeal,
Previous page
