Excerpt from Universities: Their Aims, Duties, and Ideals Having thus, for one reason or another, set aside topics to be selected from the more obvious among the regions of human thought that claim your activity, I might have been at a loss for a subject had not circumstances, in other respects unkind to me, proved kind in one respect. On the 1sth of July in the present year the King signed, and so gave the ultimate constitutional sanction to, a couple of documents empowering action which, continued and developed through the years that are to come, should exercise a profound influence upon the people of this part of England. These documents are the charter of the modified University of Manchester and the charter of the new University of Liverpool; they mark a stage in the activity of the educational bodies Upon which they have been conferred, though, of course, they cannot create fully equipped Universities. The grant of these charters is but an incident in a significant movement among the English speaking communities of the world - a movement which aims at the creation of widely increased facilities for educa tion of University type; it is the latest incident, but it will not be the last. 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.