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LADY MARGARET HALL THE CHURCH AND
WOMEN AND OXFORD UNIVERSITY.
WAR.
MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S CHALLENGE.
FORCE DISARMAMENT.
[By John Buchan,] "Oxford la fortunate in having in her many foundations mementods
"As one who was a Minister it of all the great movements of the time war was declared I say the past six centuries. The early that If the Churches of Christen colleges were the products of varldom had come together and sald, ous stirrings of medieval thought; Halt! This murder must not be the later are children of the gin, there was not a Minister or Ronaissance and the reaction a monarch who would have dared to against the Renaissance, and of do it," said Mr. Lloyd George at the Reformation settlement in the Welsh Chapel, East Castle- England. The Nineteenth Century street, Marylebone, W., recently. is not the least: great of Oxford's "The last war," he said, "was epochs," and happily, it is not uns made by monarchs, statesmen, and represented. Keble was a late-warriors who were all Christians." gathered fruit of the religious He added: movement which is associated Wo say we have learnt our lesson. with its founder's name. But it is Last night I went to see the great to the women's colloges that we pargeunt at Aldershot. Among must go if we seek foundations the incidents depleted was the which embody all the strains of most sanguineous Battle of thin Victorian culture; especially. Pefineular War, Badajoz. In the think, to Lady Margaret, which is last war it would have been an in- the oldest by a "month, and which significant skirmish as far as is now celebrating its jubilee...
losses are concerned-after 100 After the Inevitable reaction we years,of Christianity had elapsed are beginning to realise the merits the curinge is infinitely more ler of the Victorian era. For myself, rible. I cannot think of any time in her history when Oxford was a plan- santer place to live in. It was secure society, not too close to the metropolis; fully abreast of the national life, and yet a little anctuary by itself. The late 'Seventies were the days・・ of
Look at Europe to-day." After trialets and ballades, and Morris that terrible lesson, that most wall papers, and alow teunis in scorching lesson, there are more odd clothes-all the things which men-young men in the prime and Du Maurier ne drawn for u. vigour of life-being taught and But they were, also a period of trained to kill each other than at Intense intellectual activity. any other time since the founda Jowett at Baillol was producing in tions of the earth were laid.. bulk proconsula and Cabinet The Church is in the witness- Misters; Hegel was a new delty, box. What is its answer to that? with T. II. Green as his prophet: Darwinism was still a wonderful now key to the universe for the scientific; Walter Pater was beat ing out his subtle beautiful proje
High Church and Broad Church were still adventurous things.
Brilliant Women.
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Judging by the beginning of the 20th century, when these battles were fought, not only has the Church mado no progress with fis mission of peace on earth and good will among men, but it has gone
back.
Church in Witness-Box.
If the Christian Churches wore united, Mr. Lloyd George continued, they ought to force disarmament on the world.
"You will never vet peace by de clarations outlawing war," he said. and added:
It is said the Church is not It was a time, toe, of a general responsible. I say it is. If the quickening of the social con- Church does not contain a majority science. The cause of education of the population It contains a had not lost its bloom. Green was majority of the people who matter, teaching a new creed of social who govern, who rule, who dominate duties, and Arnold Toynbee was everywhere. If they all stood to preparing to practise it. Oxford gether for the Prince of Peace His I think the Churches will begin was full of brilliant women, kecause would be irresistible. Mra. Creighton, Mrs. T. H. Green, to think of answering these ques- Mrs. Arthur Johnson, Mrs. Mark tions. It rests with them, and if Pattison, and Mrs. Humphry Ward they do not do it I cannot see where -women of brand culture and the hope is to come from. sound good sense; and the higher Mr. Lloyd George referred to a education of their sex became no-charge that the responsibility for turally their chief preoccupation. poverly and social miseries rested As early as 1873 a Committee for with the Churches. "So it does," women's lectures had been estab- he declared. "If there is a brother- lished. By 1878 Cambridge had hood of man there is a responsibility founded two woman's collegca, on every member of the family for and It was inevitable that Oxford the conditions under which brothers should follow sult. So on the 4th live." He continued: of June in that year a scheme for the foundation of Lady Margaret was promulgated, and in the Octo- bor of the following year the Illall was opened under the presidency of Dr. Talbot, then Warden of Keble.
I know'n district in London full of gorgeous churches, and I went through the aluma the biber day within a stone's throw of some of those churches.
There were horrors human bo- Ingi should not be permitted to live under, and the rich people who at- lend the churches in that district could force the council if they an desired to put matters right. That is the sort of question which should be put to the Churches.
The new Hall began in a modest villa adjoining the Parks, which was chiefly notable for ita incon- veniences. It possessed a unique collection of draughts and smoky chimneys, and its chapel was the ground-floor pantry. Its library advance of the women's colleges was medieval in its meagreness in Oxford to full recognition, a copy of The Newcomes" and a They showed never a trace of that treaties, author unknown, on "Sound and Colour. It had nine stupid "feminism" which is a bad kind of inferiority-complex. They students and no endowments. But chose the wise course of proving on the intellectual side the nine their Alness before asking for pri fared nobly, with Henry Netilo-
vilegos, showing themselves ship teaching them Latin, A. G. assiduous in their duties before Bradley English literature, Arthur talking about righta. They ab- Acland history, and Arnold Toyn-sorbed the best Oxford traditions bee political economy. Presently and serupulously abode by the Ruskin visited them, and his heal ancient standards. By the quiet tation about women's colleges compulsion of performance they vanished at the spectacle of such shamed the University into grant modesty. He preached to them ing them complete academic status. the merits of Miss Edgeworth and It is a proof of the worldly wledom "Sir Charles Grandison," com enshrined in the Beattitude of the pared Tennyson to his disadvant Meek.
and guided. Both
age with Scolt, and made them at Lady Margaret Hall has not present of his own works and a subscription to the "Oxford Eng-been the least notable member of the sisterhood. It has grown in. lish Dictionary."
The chief endowment of the numbers-it is limited by its own Hall was its first Principal. Damo wish to 150-and it has been dis- Elizabeth Wordsworth (as we tinguished in quality. In its life must now call her) will rank in of half a century it has produced Oxford history among the great students like Miss Gertrude Bell, heads of colleges. Born in 1844, Miss Maude Royden, and Miss she came to Lady Margaret at Helen Waddell, the author of the height of her vigour, and now, "Wandering Scholars," it has won at the age of 84, she can look back countless University honours, and upon the dazzling success of ai has given many principals to movement which she chiefly other colleges, sponsored
But, In the words of her In birth and training she Majesty, "Though proud of de- represented the best Oxford meanour, it is singularly poor In tradition In scholarship and pocket." There are Oxford col religion, and she added a humani leges which have an income from ty and a practical wisdom of her endowments of more than £100,000 own. It was she who christened a year. Lady Margaret has scarce- the new Hall after the much-ly any endowments, and it has to married Tudor Princess, giving moet heavy debt charges, and it the characteristic reason She now appeals for money" to clear was a gentle-woman, a scholar, its fest and equip it for the future. and a saint, and after having been It la surely a case for the plous three times married she took a founder, who can give funds to. yow of celibacy, What more could supplement what it already pos- be expected of any woman?" sesses, an inspiration and à tradi- The Beattitude of the Meektion. The appeal is to the rich of "When we are young," Dame both sexes-to women to help their Elizabeth has written, "wo are own sex to a humane and practical stimulated by ideals. As wo grow education; to men to make some older we form habits," The dream return for what women like the and Joyce Lady Dervorguilla of fifty years ago has become an Frankland did long ago for their established fact.. I know ..... fow
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