OXFORD AND REFORM

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 536, 17 June 1909, Page 7

OXFORD AND REFORM

RHODES SCHOLARS,

• BROADER CONCEPTION OF EMPIRE. I "NO SLEEPY HOLLOW." i (DY TELEGRAPH —PItES3 ASSOCIATION—COPYHIGHT.) (Rec. June 16, 10.35 p.m.) London, June 16. Lord Curzon, Chancellor of Oxford University, presided at a luncheon given to the press delegates at Oxford. In an address, Lord Curzon mentioned the, Rhodes and Beit bequests to Oxford University as gifts'for developing a broader conception of the Empire. He added that tho influx of s.holars from oversea Dominions was having a most beneficial effect on tho university. He claimed that Oxford was "no sleepy hollow." They woro very much alive there, and more or less they were all reformers. OXFORD AND THE POOR MAN. Lord Curzon's scheme of reforms for Oxford does not overlook the poor man. In his book on " Principles and Methods of University Reform" he shows that his own solution would be a separate working men's college, to, be provided by the university itself. '"Suoh a college should have a fixed scale of cost—if possible, not more than .£6O per annum; a large number , of maintenance scholarships or exhibitions should be attaohed to it, to which I would appeal to the richer colleges to contribute. But.the education should not be given for nothing,, since a purely gratuitous benefaction would sap the sense of self-respect; and 1 a university education is deserving of some Sacrifice. . . . The students of our hypothetical college would enjoy all the. intramural and extramural advantages of the colleges and the university ■in combination; all would not be drawn from the' same class, and the tradesman's, the bnsiness man's, and even tho poor gentleman's son would mingle with, the artisan. The link between - them would be humble means and the needs of frugal subsistence, and tho indescribable glamour of college society would soon hold them in its.thrall and leavers'mark upon them for life."