Excerpt from Congress of the Universities of the Empire, 1912: Report of Proceedings IN November, 1909, a resolution was adopted by the Senate of the University of London, That it is desirable to hold an Imperial Universities Congress in London in The Imperial Education Conference was to meet in May of that year, and it was thought that some of the representatives of Overseas Universities who would come to England for the purpose of attending this Conference would attend the Congress also. A Preliminary Arrangements Committee was appointed to ascertain whether the proposal was viewed with favour by the Universities of the United Kingdom, and, if they approved, to take steps to call the Congress into being. The time for preparation, involving, as it must do, communication with the most distant parts of the Empire, was short, and it was clearly necessary that invitations to attend the Congress should be sent out without delay. For this reason the Principal of the University of London, Dr. (now Sir Henry) Miers, Chairman of the Committee, with whom the idea of summoning a Congress originated, consulted the Vice Chancellors of Oxford and Cambridge, without waiting until the proposal had been generally discussed. With their concurrence a letter of invitation, signed by the vice-chancellor of the Univer sity of London, was addressed to all other Universities of the United Kingdom. The proposal for 3. Congress was unanimously approved and the invitation accepted by them all. It soon appeared, however, that it would be wiser to postpone the meeting until 1912. With a view to saving time the Senate of the University of London had agreed to undertake all financial responsibility for the Congress, leaving the question of the assistance which other Universities might be disposed to give to be settled later. They had also appointed as Secretary the late Dr. R. D. Roberts, whose name had been independently suggested by the authorities both of Oxford and of Cambridge, agreeing, in order that he might devote himself to the work of organising the Congress, to set him free, in part, from his duties as University Extension Registrar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.