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3 CHIRA.
There are spectat reasons why tension, to which must be added Oxford of all universities should sum of £250,000 in all.
students has increased from 133 to 217 since 1931. There is, however, Ittle money available either for the proper organization of research or for the provision of facilities Lor schemes of co-operative scholarship in the subjects, which provide such a valuable training-ground for re- sonrch. Endowments are needed
both to enable scholars to devote part of their time to research, and to free them from their normal work for a period in order to undertake, n spectat Investigation.
The Needs.of Natural Science
New Laboratory for Physical Chemis- try
(a) (2) The remarkablo deve- lopment of Physical Chemistry in Oxford affords striking evidence of the high quality of the men whom Oxford has attracted us College iutors. This subject is at present studled and tought in two laboratories provided by three colleges. Some of its most significant investigations cellars have been carried out in the of Balliol College. But in spite of
record of research.
Con disadvantages the School haɑ -
such
It is
"has
clear, however, that the time come when mixtern accommodation must be provided in a University
adequate
te facilities if laboratory with
the men who have built up its re- putation are not to be seriously Randicapped. The close relation be- tween Physical Chemistry and Medi- cine is one example of the growing Importance of the subject, since the solution of clinical, problems will often involve fundamental investiga: tions in Physical Chemistry.
(2) Replacement of Laboratories for
Physics and Geology
Of the importance of Physics in the modern world no one can have any doubt, but of the two laboratories devaled to it at Oxford the Clarendon Physics Laboratory was built nearly a seventy years ago. Not only is it out of date, but it is so crowded that
chango alene in the nature of World, its art and culture, link to- branches-plant Ecology, Flant Phy-
But while nothing will be done to impair this system,. Oxford will sacrifice the teachers to the taught unless it can relieve the former of some of their burdens and give them time and facilities for research. Modern conditions have revolutionized the needs of. universities, and to meet the new conditions ancient en- hopelessly dowments are inadequate. Oxford has
that always believed university can succeed in teaching the truth only in so far as it can succeed in discovering it. A system of teaching which is not direct~ ly connected with the well-
be adequately equipped for re- This expansion of the Bodleian will important research has perforce been springs of knowledge is search. Oxford undergraduates be a great contribution to research in relegated to cellars and a workshop doomed to stagnation.
are almost entirely occupied with the humane studies, as in addition to improvised in the entrance-hall. Á advanced studies of one kind or meeting the pressing need for storage new building with modern facilities
it will provide reading and seminar for research is urgently needed. Year by year it is increasingly another. Since the Wor the
inck rooms, the
of which is a great
Geology, too, must be rehoused, as In striking contrast to the evident that research is essential average number of undergraduates handicap
A ai present.
much- Science its present quarters are makeshift ac- taking the Final Honour Schools needed extension of the conditions prevailing a year ago, in all branches of human
was completed in and Inadequate. It is housed partly annually has increased from 704 Library, which Hongkong's trade is showing a tivity. At the same time, as re- to 1,234. The passaram has almost 1034, is a relatively small but none in temporary sheds and partly in re- marked revival, a fact which is search advances, its scope ex- disappeared. Since 1931 there the less fraportant part of the scheme, search-rooms carved out of the main every convenience known to research revealed in the official statistics tends, its technique becomes has been a steady increase in the (b) The Ashmolean Museum and Museum building, lacking almost of research students, (b) The Ashmolean Museum and workers. Yet the work of the late just issued. It is shown that in more intricate, its methods more number"
Archaeological Research
Professor Sollas and his fellow wor cost which has grown from 240 to 412 comprehensive, and its terms of local currency, the total grows. Research has demand- per annum. The far-sighted en- Oxford is justly renowned for its kers is known all over the world.
of other Existing Laboratorice & CO., LTD. visible trade of the Colony in-ed and attracted large endow- dowments of Cecil Rhodes have work in Archaeology, associated as it (b) Extension,
creased by 28.9 per cent. last ments elsewhere. Oxford must brought-to-Oxford-men-from all is with the names of Evans, Sayce,
Many of the other scientific de- month, compared with January answer the same call or lose the parts of the Empire and the United Griffith, Hogarth, Gardner, Lawrence, States of America who are al- Haverfield, and Woolley. The Ash-
unsuitable buildings, are cramped for of last year, and by 24.3 per place which it has held hitherto ready graduates of their own molean Museum, constantly enriched partments, even though housed in less
in the fielda of cent. in terms of sterling. Im- among the universities of the universities, and the number of by their labours
ancient culture and language, is now space, and extensions for research needed. For cxample, ports show an increase of 18.4 world. It is now in urgent need graduates from other universities, badly in need of extension. Its col- are badly
Botany is a subject which has spread of money to endow advanced besides the Rhodes Scholars, has lections illustrating the prehistory per cent, on a local currency studies and research upon a scale been steadily increasing. This and early history of the Ancient in recent years into three major basis and by 13.6 per cent. in equal to its reputation and its the undergraduate body imposes gether all the cognate branches of slology, and Mycology, all of which terms of sterling; whilst exports made an even greater advance,
on the Univeralty the duty of see learning in the University. But in require separate laboratories and the respective figures being 44.5 The task of a university in ing that its resources
are ade. order to take advantage of the oppor- separate staffs. The present building
accommodation adjoining the per cent. and 40 per cent. respect of research is twofold. quate to meet the new demands. tunities thus afforded for research, needs to be extended and improved. Whilst an analysis of the statis-It has to give the student access At present they are quite in- tions must be provide collec (c) Funds for Staffing, Maintenance, fessors and research students, to- New buildings alone will not pro- tics shows that trade was slight to knowledge in the widest adquate
Oxford's most pressing needs gether with an adequate endowment duce results, and the contributions of ly better in the last two months variety. It has also to ensure
both to maintain the Museum and do
these new laboratorics to knowledge of 1936 than during the past close and continuous contact be in research may be summerized enable Oxford scholars to have an will depend on their being adequately unrivalled Institute of Archaeology. endowed to provide staff, mainenance, month possibly due to seasonal tween the various fields of learn- roughly as follows:
(e) Research in Social Studies and equipment. business the fact remains that ing in order to protect its stu- In the Humane Studles: the January figures are substan- dents against the narrowness of
(a) Extension of the Bodleinn
Oxford's duties to Great Britain (d) A General Research Fund for
Science tially better in respect of exports vision and lack of balance which
Library and a fund for and the British Empire are not limit- maintenance. than for the first ten months of specialization may so easily in-
The inevitable increase in the cost ed to archaeological study or to 1536, whilst in imports they were duce. By the organization of its
(b) Extension of the Ashmolean scientific research. Indeed the ad- of scientiße research as it caters more above all but the last three studies and by the standards
Museum and a fund for vance of Science may well creato complex fields and requires more ex-
for society than it pensive more problems
experimental equipment Archaeological Research. months of last year. As which it upholds it has, in fact, (c) Provision for the study of solves unless it is tempered by the affects ull the departments, including natural in the case of a distri- to maintain the discipline of
spread of humane knowledge, the those of Physiology, Anatomy, and Humane Society, Social Stu teaching of which has been Oxford's
rd's Pathology, and buting centre situated as Hong- truth itself. As the Vice-Chan
here again more dies and allied subjects particular glory, and balanced by re- money is needed to enable them to kong is, the most striking ad- cellor Bald recently, higher study
such as Anthropology. search in the folds of
o sociology use the most modern mehtods. vances are seen in our trade and research in a university 'rest
(d) A general fund for the and politics. The importance of few University Lecturerships are with China. Exports to North ultimately upon.
better organization and ex- this has been recognized by the available to enable experts to devote + spiritual China during January totalled foundation: the conviction in the
developmenta research tension of research in the recent
a considerable part of their time to allied subjects research, kut more are needed and $3,348,410, compared with minds of researchers, of tanchars
Arts subjects, including the in a group of $1,748,432 for the corresponding and students, that knowledge has
provision of research posts, the Social Studies-which may be a generous research fund would make described as the philosophic study it possible for men who show great month last year, whilst in regard its own standards of integrity and In Natural Science:
of the problems
of Government promise in a particular field to con- (a) New Laboratories for Phy- In to South China there are sub-dispassionate inquiry'. The pre-
the present state of the world inue their investigations which, sics, Physical Chemistry, nothing could be more pressing. To under present conditions, are often stantial increases both in exports sent age demands the skilled
and Geology.
take only one current example.
in In Interrupted
mast wastofut study of an unprecedented range and imports. Hongkong's ex- of human and scientific problema.
(b) Extension of existing la- a recent speech the Chancellor of the manner. ports to the South China market Moreover, under the pressure of
boratories.
Exchequer drew attention to the
Also, there should be some racons rose from $6,461,820 to $8,012, competing doctrines, of the expert
(c) Funds for the staffing, fresh set of problems', associated
with the prospective decrease
of of providing for important new deve- 765, and imports from $6,641,- appeal to mass-emotions, and of maintenance, and equip population in these islands, which lepraents as, for example, the recently 219 to $7,379,252. Now that propagands ruthlessly employed,
likely to make growing established Bureau of Animal Popula- the Colony's currency
tion, which is doing important ploneer 18 on a it is, now if ever, a paramount
demands upon the attention stable basis, it is a far more sim- condition that research shall be
work, such as the study of the proving the facilities for em
sociat investigators and states-
epidemic diseases of animals which research In various scienco. men'. To ascertain ple business than in other days free, fearless, and objective. The
and to mea- to gain a clear picture of our vitality and independence of the
the probable consequences affect the distribution of animal departments, including the sure provision of research posts social, economic, and financial of a population, and it promises to throw trade position. The latest figures universities is a standing guaran-
and facial supports of fall in the population is the first step important light on some of the pro- issued certainly support the view too against the contamination or
now developments.
to the practical measures that will blems of human disease. that we are making steady reperversion of knowledge at its
be needed to anticipate and to meet Summary of Financial Needs covery from the depression, and
them. Here is an opportunity for the impartial research which charne- Further, there is the relation of Needs of the
To meet all the above require- there seems every prospect of the research to the day-to-day work Humane Studies
terizes the kind of ald that a well- ments a very large sum is needed. process continuing, provided
of univoralty. Teaching needs to
equipped Department of Social It is certain that £500,000 is re- Studies may render in the practical quired for two main purposes alone, China enjoys a period of calm in 'be constantly enlivened, and. ro- (a) The Bodleian Library which to rehabilitate the coun- freshed, by contact with research. The cost of the alterations and concerns of the community. Once namely £250,000 for the Bodleian try. It is evident that the chan- There is no surer way to rouse the extensions of the Library and the more, to help this specific develop- and £250,000 for immediate expen
buildings, This nels of trade are more and more constructive imagination of the added cost of maintenance will ment, the Rocketciler Foundation has alture
come to the aid of Oxford, and has leaves no provision available for the amount to about £1,050,000. Here being opened up in the Far East, student than to give him contact the United States have come to the made a grant of £5,000 a year for various-funds-and-research projects with a resultant increased flow with the pioneers of his genera- aid of Oxford and the Rockefeller ave years for the development of enumerated above, and the extent of business. This is all to the tion, working at their outposts on Foundation has already most gener- Social Studies. But if more money to which they can be endowed will good of Hongkong, which de the frontiers of knowledge... Such ously given £500,000. In addition is not forthcoming the work will have depend on the generosity and the pends, by the very nature of its an experience will give the atu- about 2200,000 has been contribut to stop in 1941. Money is required individual interests of benefactors. its both for capital and for working ex- The total sum required is very large, status, or the free movement of
dent habit of inquiry, a sense of ed by the University from
but the opportunity is great." yalues, and a training in method existing resources by the Colleges, penditure."
the merchandise. The year has and In the judgment of evidence the role private wurces. Thus a (d) 4 General Research Fund for the
University Endowment Fund,
The - University's -annual-expendie opened well with every reason that will be invaluable to him as further
ture in 1930 was £258,000, of which- £230,000 is required to for hoping that even better times an intellectual, background, what relieve the University of any addi. In the Humanities apart from Social not far from half, namely £100,000, lie ahead.
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