NEW OXFORD COLLEGE

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 71, 17 December 1937, Page 13

NEW OXFORD COLLEGE

Meeting-Place For Theory

And Practice

"Dominion” Special Service. —By Air Mai! London, October 16.

Lord Nuffield has presented £1,000,000 (including a site valued at £lOO,000) to Oxford University for the building and endowment of a new graduate college to be devoted to the collaboration, particularly in social studies, of theoretical students and practical men of affairs. The site was purchased by Lord Nuffield in 1935, mainly with the object of beautifying the western approach to Oxford, an'd lie has now decided that a new college would not only accomplish this, but at the same time further the educational projects to which he has already devoted a large fortune. In a statement to “The Times,” the vice-chancellor of ' Oxford University revealed that the idea of a college devoted to the study of the problems of contemporary society, originated not in the minds of members of the university, but in that of Lord Nuffield. As its w r ork will be entirely post-graduate, the new college will not be a rival to any of the existing foundations. It will be a residence for graduate students who are to be given an opportunity for a further period of study after completing their more strictly academic education.

It will also serve as a place where historians, philosophers, anthropologists, and jurists may meet with politicians, public servants, and business men, so that on (lie one hand theories may be constantly tested by men of practical experience, and on the other hand future actions may be based on the more subtle analyses and longer views of the theorists. Lord Nuffield has already given Oxford University £2,000.000 for medical research and £3,600.000 to Oxford University and Radcliffe Infirmary, and ins benefactions for public purposes now total more than £10.000,000.