EIGHTEEN YEARS

OF

UNIVERSITY EXTENSION.

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3441

OF

UNIVERSITY EXTENSION

BY

R. D. ROBERTS, M.A., D. Sc. (LOND.)

LATE FELLOW OF CLARE COLLEGE; FELLOW OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE,
LONDON; ORGANIZING SECRETARY FOR LECTURES TO THE

CAMBRIDGE LOCAL EXAMINATIONS AND LECTURES SYNDICATE; AND
SECRETARY TO THE LONDON SOCIETY FOR THE EXTENSION
OF UNIVERSITY TEACHING.

Cambridge:

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS

1891

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PREFACE.

MUCH of the material of this volume has already appeared in my annual reports to the Local Examinations and Lectures Syndicate, Cambridge, and some in the columns of the University Extension Journal.

While I believe that there is nothing in the following pages at variance with the views of the Syndicate or of the Council of the London Society, I wish it to be understood that the responsibility for the opinions expressed rests upon me alone.

During a connection with the movement extending over fifteen years, (first as lecturer, then since 1881 as Assistant and Organizing Secretary to the Cambridge Syndicate, and also since 1886 as Secretary to the London Society), I have had unique opportunities of acquiring an intimate knowledge of the working of the system, and its adaptability to the needs of the country; and I have endeavoured faithfully to reflect the impression which that experience has left upon my mind. It has not been my purpose to give a detailed history of the whole movement, much less to attempt to assign to all