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THE formal opening of the College of Science at Leeds by the Duke of Devonshire, which we briefly announced last week, is an event of no mean importance to the county, and of no small interest to the rest of the community, inasmuch as we must regard it as another indication of the great educational movement which has already been experienced by Manchester, Newcastle, Birmingham, and Bristol, and is beginning to be felt more or less strongly in every industrial centre throughout the country. This movement, as Mr. Former tells us, is not merely to give education to the captains of industry; it is to increase the culture of every individual working man and working woman in the land, and to give them not elementary education alone, but skilled knowledge to enable them to earn their living as efficiently as possible by affording them the key to the stores of knowledge.
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The Inauguration of the Yorkshire College of Science . Nature 12, 509 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012509a0
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