§ MR. LONSDALE (Armagh, Mid.)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Education whether, in view of the fact that the proposed Charter for the Imperial College of Science at South Kensington contains a special provision retaining the name and the associateship of the Royal School of Mines, it is intended also to retain the title and the associateship of the Royal College of Science.
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION (Mr. McKENNA, Monmouthshire, N.)I do not think the "Associateship of the Royal School of Mines" affords an analogy in this connection. Specialised courses in mining and metallurgy, for which the name "Royal School of Mines" is sufficiently appropriate, will certainly form one of 85 the departments of the work of the Imperial College, and provision can therefore be made in the Charter for this and for the retention of the corresponding associateship, before the governing body is established. It is difficult, however, to anticipate whether there will be any department to which the name "College of Science "or" School of Science "will be equally applicable, and it is desirable that the governing body, when established, should have an opportunity of considering this question, which is bound up with other questions of organisation which it will rest with them to decide. Moreover, the name chosen for the new institution, viz., the Imperial College of Science and Technology, may make the continued use of the comprehensive term "Science" inappropriate as a distinctive term for use in the name of any particular department.
§ MR. LONSDALEWhat steps have been taken to preserve existing rights?
§ MR. McKENNAI think the hon. Gentleman has not fully appreciated my answer.