_Difficulty of getting rid of a Name._--The institution founded in Gower
Street under the name of the _University of London_, lived for ten years
under that name, and, since, for fifteen years, under the name of
_University College_, a new institution receiving the name of the
_University of London_. A few years after the change of name, a donor
left reversionary property to the _London University in Gower Street_,
which made it necessary to obtain the assistance of the Court of
Chancery in securing the reversion to its intended owners. A professor
of the _College_ in Gower Street received a letter, dated from Somerset
House (where the _University_ is), written by the Vice-Chancellor of the
University himself, and addressed, not to the _University College_, but
to the _University of London_. And in a public decision, by the
Archbishop of Canterbury, as Visitor of Dulwich College, which appears
in _The Times_ of July 21, it is directed that certain scholars are to
proceed for instruction to some such place as "King's College or _the
London University_." This is all worthy of note, because we often appeal
to old changes of name in the settlement of dates. When this decision
becomes very old, it may happen that its date will be brought into doubt
by appeal to the fact that the place of _instruction_ (what is _now_ the
_University_ giving no instruction but only granting degrees, and to
students of King's College among others) ceased to have the title of
_University_ in 1837. What so natural as to argue that the Archbishop,
himself a visitor of King's College, cannot have failed to remember
this. A reflected doubt may be thrown upon some arguments relating to
dates in former times.