Excerpt from The Universities and the Social Problem: An Account of the University Settlements in East London I have to express my best thanks to Sir John Gorst for allowing me to make use of his Glasgow Rectorial Address, which is printed as an introduction to this volume; and also to signify my gratitude to the various contributors thereto, and particularly to those of them who have been kind enough to help me with sugges tions and criticism. 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.