NEW GRADUATE COLLEGE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 246, 16 October 1937, Page 9

NEW GRADUATE COLLEGE

LORD NUFFIELD’S GIFT ITS VALLE STRESSED [ British Official WlrelcM.l RUGBY, Oct. 14. Lord Halifax, Chancellor of Oxford University, referring to Lord Nuffield’s offer of £lOO,OOO for the building and endowment of the new graduate college to be devoted to social studies, said: "This new college, recalling as it does the generous foundations of the Middle Ages, will be an addition of great and far-reaching significance to the life of the university.” Vice-Chancellor A. D. Lindsay announced that it would be proposed to call the new building Nullield College, and he hoped that the necessary legislation would be approved by the congregation this term, It would be on similar lines to the legislation covering Lord Nuflield’s medical research benefaction, the framework in which the committee would bo free to work out the details.

Of the benefaction itself, the ViceChancellor said that was an entirely new experiment in research in social studies, it would bo unique, and it would not in any sense rival the existing historic foundations. It would be an entirely post-graduate college, and the people who went there would already have been members of other colleges. It was really going to be a university instrument of research and would have to be more under the control of the university than an ordinary college.