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showing that the Charity Commissioners were willing to appropriate conditionally
the sum of £1,500 per annum to the endowment of an Institute
in each of the other boroughs, the central Committee deemed it better to
dissolve, upon the understanding that the funds in hand should be divided
among the district Committees of the three boroughs referred to pro rata to
the contributions received from each. This was shortly afterwards accomplished
and the Islington District Committee was thereupon re-constituted
with the sanction of the Charity Commissioners under the title of the
"Northern Technical and Recreative Institute "Committee, it being
the wish of the Commissioners that Hornsey should be included with
Islington in the Northern District.
The Vestry has granted the Committee the use of the Vestry Hall
for meetings; and a suitable site in the centre of the Parish has,
it is understood, been provisionally secured. If, therefore, the funds
for the building are only forthcoming, there is little doubt that Islington
and Hornsey may share with other parts of London in the endowment
to be derived from the City Parochial Charities, and that the working
classes resident in those districts may shortly have the benefit of
advanced technical instruction.
UNIVERSITY EXTENSION LECTURES.
The origin cf this movement, so far as Islington is concerned, is
recorded in the report for last year. In the autumn months of 1889, a
course of 10 Lectures was given by Professor Lewes, at Myddelton Hall,
on the "Chemistry of Every Day Life;" and in the spring of 1890, a
second or more advanced course, by the same lecturer, was given at the
room attached to the Upper Holloway Baptist Chapel, the subject being
"Chemistry as applied to the Arts and Manufactures." The Vestry
again showed its interest in the movement by lending the Vestry Hall
for the purpose of tho examination and for the distribution of prizes
in connection with each course.
Although the number of canelidates who offered themselves for
examination in connection with the latter course showed a falling off
(possibly attributable to the technicality of the subject), the examiner
spoke highly of the manner in which the candidates acquitted
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