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Oliver Sheldon a director of Rowntree's and co-founder of York Civic Trust, was a driving force behind the campaign to found the university.
Baron James of Rusholme, the university's first Vice-Chancellor, said the University "must be collegiate in character, that it must deliberately seek to limit the number of subjects and that much of the teaching must be done via tutorials and seminars"
Due to the influence of Graeme Moodie, founding head of the Politics Department, students are involved in the governance of the university at all levels, and his model has since been widely adopted.
The first petition for the establishment of a university in York was presented to James I in 1617.[14] In 1641 a second petition was drawn up but was not delivered due to the English Civil War in 1642.[15] A third petition was created in 1647 but was rejected by Parliament.[15] In the 1820s there were discussions about the founding of a university in York, but this did not come to fruition due to the founding of Durham University in 1832.
In 1903 F. J. Munby and the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, amongst others, proposed a 'Victoria University of Yorkshire'
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