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That institutions such as the Oxford and Harvard University Presses have at present good opportunities for encouraging scientific research was pointed out by Sir William Osler, LL.D. '04 last night. Dr. Osler traced the development of the Oxford Press through its three centuries of existence, concluding that the similar venture at Harvard could succeed as well, if the learned and commercial interests were closely related...
...Oxford Press has had the longest continuous existence of any printing establishment. A press was instituted in 1478, but it did not come under the direct control of the university until 1585. Since that time its field of activity and its output have grown steadily. In 1830 its present large building was erected, which makes it the most self-contained press in the world, for all the paper, type, and even the glue and ink used are made within the plant...
...Oxford Press is administered by the vice-chancellor and a board of eleven delegates, all of whom are authors and scholars, serving only for a short period of years. Through the activity of its distribution office, which is an almost independent institution located in London, the Press has established flourishing branches in New York, Toronto, and India...
...William Osler LL.D. will give an illustrated lecture on the "Oxford University Press" in the New Lecture Hall this evening at 8.15 o'clock. Sir William Osler is a graduate of Trinity College, Toronto, and has received many degrees from American and English institutions including that of LL.D. from Harvard in 1904 when he was Ingersoll lecturer speaking on "Science and Immortality." At present he is Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University and Delegate of the Oxford University Press...
While the lecturer is best known as a great physician, he has always taken a deep and active interest in the Oxford Press which was founded in the fifteenth century and has grown to be an enormous plant with its own type-foundries and paper-mills. Lantern slides will aid in the description of the Press. The lecture is given by invitation of the Syndics of the Harvard University Press and will be open to the public although a few seats will be reserved