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Abstract

THE speech of the Prime Minister at the meetings held last week in support of the fund to pay off the debt at King's College was a striking comment on some recent utterances of members of the Government to the effect that Science is well able to support itself, and needs no assistance from the State. The claims of this fund on public assistance were earnestly and eloquently urged on the ground that King's College was an institution founded to promote the union between Science and Religion, and therefore the happiness of mankind. In the course of the meeting it was mentioned that the works connected with the Thames Embankment have entirely destroyed the dining-hall of the College, entailing a loss of 1,400l. or 1,500l., for which no legal redress can be obtained; and this although noble dukes receive compensation to the extent of thousands of pounds for the injury inflicted on the privacy of their gardens by the same works.