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to be validated.   University Education.  In England the highest
education is given at the ancient universities of Oxford and
Cambridge, the former having 22 colleges and 3 private halls,
and the latter 17 colleges and 1 hall; the university of Durham,
founded in 1831, with a college of medicine, and since 1871, a
college of science at Newcastle; the university of London
founded in 1836 and reorganised in 1900 so as to be a teaching
as well as an examining body, with 24 colleges or schools giving
instruction in 8 faculties; the Victoria University
(Manchester), founded in 1880; the Birmingham University,
founded in 1900; the Liverpool University, founded in 1903; the
Leeds University, founded in 1904; the Sheffield University,
founded in 1905; and the Bristol University, founded in 1909.
There are also University Colleges at Exeter, Nottingham
(founded 1881), Reading (started with the