'Varsities Want Money.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 31 October 1911, Page 4

'Varsities Want Money.

MR RUNCIMAN ON THE AIIATHY 01? THE WEALTHY. ROCKEFELLER'S EXAMPLE QUOTED. Our Universities seem to bo gettino- short of jnoney (s>ayis tho Daily .Sketch, London). 'People wJio lia.ve caslv to throw about apparently think ,lcss than our forefathers did of flic advantages of a. University •education, and quite a plaintive note on the matter is struck by Mr Walter Runeiman (President of the Hoard of Education) in his annual report on Universities which receive a. Parliamentary grant. Ho says there probably was never a time when University education was in greater need of adequwnto encouragement. " Tho difficulty of raising any considerable sums for the. _ endowment of University education Jvns been only too plainly shown in the great efforts that linve been neeessarv in order to collect the comparatively small sum of £70,000 requir-ed-to provide new chemical laboratories (fit University College, London. Tilie small extent to w-hiohi JJ/iivorsity work is endowed by private benefaction in Uiis country is emphasised if comparison is made with the measure of support forthcoming in other countries. Thus, within a year of its foundation, the Kaiser Wilhelm •Society for tbe promotion of Science in Germany bad at its disposal a capital of balf a million sterling. "In France. Monsieur Augn.ste Lontronil left a sum of towards tho promotion of science in I lint country. In tho United Stales Mr Rockefeller 'hnnded over Uio sum of £7(11,000 to the RoelceIVller instiinie for Medical Jlo-M-arch. which lie had previously endowed with large .sums. !: The weakness of t!ie appp.il which University education makes in the present (lay to the imagination of the wealthy finds its counterpart in ■tiie apathy of the public at large, and this apathy is only too freguontlv reflected in the attitude of the local authorities. Some pf the most important of these give far less than their proper share of support to the Universities."