NEW 'VARSITY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 233, 2 October 1928, Page 7

NEW 'VARSITY.

CAMBRIDGE REBUILT.

Munificent Gift Of Rockefeller

Foundation.

£700,000 GIVEN.

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received 12 noon.)

RUGBY, October 1

The Cambridge University is to receive a gift of £700,000 from the International Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation. This offer includes a contribution of £250,000 towards a new university designed by Sir Gilbert Scott, the building of which will now be undertaken without delay. The remainder of the gift will be devoted to a larger proposal for providing for certain new developments in the physical and biological studies of the university which have for some time been regarded as urgent by the heads of those departments. A condition is attached that the university should raise the balance of the sum required for the completion of the whole scheme. The vice-chancellor, the Rev. G. A. Weekes, announced to-day that this was a "splendid offer of assistance." He added that inasmuch as the resources of the university were already pledged to the building of a new library, it would be necessary to raise from outside sources the Miance of the £229,000 required to fulfil the condition.