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Lord Nuffield Founds a New College in Oxford
THREE LATEST GIFTS TOTAL £1,300,000
Three new gifts of the total value of £1,300,000 from Lord Nuffield to Oxford University are announced recently as follows:
£1,000,000 for a new college to encourage research, especially in the field of social studies.
· A site worth £100,000 for the college.
£200,000 in trust as additional endowment for his previous medical research gift of £2,000,000 for extensions to hospitals associated with the scheme. Lord Nuffield has been informed that the Hebdomadal Council of the University has received his offer with gratitude and will promote the necessary legislation in Congregation as soon as possible.
It was announced on behalf of Lord Numeld last night that, while he is grateful for all expressions of appreciation of his gifts, he cannot under- take to deal with or answer any correspondence on the subject. In parti- cular, he is not considering other benefactions at present.
DETAILS OF SCHEME
Of the million pounds for the college, "not more than £100,000 is to be used for the erection and equipment of the laboratory of physical chemistry, the first charge on the balance being the erection of a college building worthy of the highest traditions of Oxford architecture."
Referring to the site, Lord Nuffield, in his letter to
the Vice-Chancellor, says:
"It has long been my desire to improve the as- pect of the approach to Oxford from the west, and, With that object, I recently purchased the large canal-whart which Hes to the north of the New Rond, in the hope that part, the value of which is approximately £100,000, might become the site of some university buikling of an appropriate kind, to the cop between Worcester College and Pembroke College."
Lord Nuffield hopes that the new college will bridge the gulf which exists between academic studies and practical affairs and produce a flow of recruits to in- dustry.
In formally enumerating. the con- ditions of the £1,000,000 gift Lord Nuleid says the college and its enlowinchts must be under the direct control of the Hebdonadal Council, though it can delegate any part of Its function.
THE MAIN OBJECT
"The main object of my proposed- endowment, in the light of which also the subsequent conditions shall all be read," he writes, "is to encourage re- search, especially but not exclusively In the field of social studies, and especially by making easier the co- operation of nendemit and non- academic persons.”
He proceeds to deal with details of the establishment of University Fel- lowships tenable at the college anul continues:
"A further part of the proposed endowment shall be used for the provision of rent-free rooms for post- graduate students, and for the pay- ment of emoluments to deserving students who are in need of them, these students must have resided as members of the University for at least one year.",
The college is to be undenomina-, tlonal, te proposes to give. the Uni-| versity wide powers to niter details.
letter are
scholar and the map of affairs work- ing in the same field, but also be-
creasing year by year, and since they graduates in the Civil
Other extracts from Lord Numeld's tween the workers in different Acids. "I have long deplored the com- The demands both for new know-parotive scarcity of university gradu- ledge and for new recruits inade by tales In the highest posts of the modern industry on the scientific administrative and managerial
lepartments of universities are in-of industry. The success of
cost of maintaining great labora
suggests that their scarcity in tories is out of all proportion to the dustry must be partly due to the cost of higher, education and re-failure of employers to appreciate search in non-scientifle subjects, the qualities which 4 university have been impressed by the strain education fosters in a young man or
university Iinance.
in in-
Total: Over
£10,000,000
Lord Nuffield's public gifts now total over £10,000,000,
By the end of last year he Jind distributed over £7,430,000 In addition to many in- dividual amounts of less than
£10.000.
to
This year's donatiour. not including fo-day's, amount over £1,035,000,
In Augum Lord. Nuffield gave £33,000 for "talking books" for the blind. £50,000 for Penbroice College, Oxford, and £24.000 for the Hospital for Nervous Diseases, London: fast months, £10.000 for the Worcester Royal Infirmary; this month, 250.000 for the Hospital for Sick Children, Holborn, and £15,000 for an Exeter hospital,
Last month the gifts were: Tuesday,
£100,000 (South Africa); Wednesday, Royal Bucks Hospital, £6,000; Thura- day. £10,000 (Coventry), und Friday.
£300,000, Radcliffe Inormary, Oxford.
Lord Numeld's previous big donations:
Employees' Trust.. £2;125,000 Medleat research,
Oxford Univ. Special Areas ..... Radcliffe Infirmary
Orthopaedic Surgery St. Thomas's Hosp Oxford University
£2,000,000 £2,000,000 £150,000 £125.000 £101,000 £100,000
HE IS
People Past 40
Eat Too
Much, Says Doctor
By John U. Terrell) United Preas Staff Correspondent
San Francisco, Oct. 30,-Public Enemy No. 1 is not a gangster or Kungster's son. Ile's something rather indescribable who goes by the name of 0. Ver Fating. You've probably met up with him.
Dr. Victor G. Heiser, noled globe- girding health officer, who has spent more than half a century battling diseases which could wipe out cities Andi Armies with
Infectious sweep, says that the habit of over-
created enting has
the greatest national crime wave America has ever known.
one
Dr. Heker as chased typhus and malaria and plague all over the world. Now he's home to warn America that it has problems for greater to consider than epidemles. And he's telling the middle and old- age groups that white miero-organ- isms have been licked, nothing has been done to protect them from O. Ver Eating's swift attacks,
WARNS OLD PEOPLE
"At last the gates have been opened and we are slowly discov- ering that a great percentage of our oldsters are digging their graves with their teeth," he said, "I don't think there's any question but that over- cating is the greatest national crime to-day. We continue to think In terms of ples and biscuits mother used to make and forget that most of the middle and old age aliments are born of stomachs that are too full.”
The doctor has no patience with dietary fads. Eating habits must be established during youth, and the whole problem is not only one of research, but of education, he argues.
Scientists have to help school tea- chers and parents. The scientists should develop things like a good palatable alfalfa salad.
"What?"
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POUND SALAD IN AFRICA "That's right," said the doctor, "a good palatable alfalfa salad. I just returned from Africa and there I found during research in leprosy that alfalfa salads provide certain inor- ganic salts necessary to human well- being. Dietlclans should devise some way of making this food pala- table.and we'd have a great many more healthier and happier people."
Dr. Heiser la serious. He pointed out that Engilsh physicians in Africa and India have proved that diseases of old age may be cured by correct diets.
"We eat three times as much as we should. A le restraint and a balanced diet would bring health to countless ailing Americans."
"SIR," BUT
PREFERS "MR"
which must thus be imposed upon woman; but my own experience con- Eighty-five-year-old Sir George Cecil Morris, Bart.,
vinees me that it is also partly due who lives in Australia, does not want the title to which "It seems to me, therefore, to be to the gulf which at present exists he has succeeded on the death of his nephew, Sir Tankerville Armine Robert Morris, formerly of Sketty Park Hall, Swansea.
my duty to consider whether I could between academic studies and prac- do anything to help those branches tical affairs." of selence in which, as na Inclus-
trialki, I am most directly concern- Lord Nufield suggests that the ed; and it was naturally my wish to part of his gift devoted to the col do it in that university in which I lege should be put under the general am specially interested.
He has become the head of one of "I won't take the title unless I have supervision of a speelal body of the oldest and wealthiest families in to."
He suggests that he should west Wales, but does not wish to be "I have been wondering during the trustees. past
year whether there is any wayinate as trustees some to bridge the separation between the lay members of the existing Nufield burdened with the responsibilities of
Trustees,
of the
Bottle Carrier Has Long Count
such a position.
Mr. T. Byng Morris, a cousin of Sir Morris (who died 7 Tankerville week ago), sald that no money estate goes with the title,
or
He prefers gardening, Speaking in his gurden at Monavale, The estate, approximately 3,000 near Sydney, as he rested from tend-cres, at Sitetly and Clyne, passes to Sir Tankerville Morria's four sisters- ing his vegetables, he recalled that he Mrs. C. Milson, of Northam, North has hind an exciting Ble and has Devon; Mes, Vallerle Bowie, of Edin- known poverty and said that he now burgh; Mrs. Charles Bruce, of New- wants quiet-and to be left alone bury; and Mrs. W. E. Yockney, of
Reading. with his vegetables and gardening,
RAN AWAY FROM TITLES
NOVEMBER 18, 1937.
BRITON'S STORY OF TORTURE
KEPT PRISONER BY FRANCO'S
MEN
secret
London, Oct. 24. Beaten up by Franco's thugs, falsely accused of being a spy, herded with natives in prison, and told he would be shot. ..Such was the adventure of Mr. Arthur H. Whyard, a Highbury man, who has just arrived back in London after his escape from the firing squad, writes a correspond.
ent.
His only "crime" was that he had
Spain.. curlier been in Republican He went there early this year to try to earn a living by writing.
He had no success ont came back to England, where he shipped as a sailor on a curgo boat bound for West Africa.
At Lagos he went down with fever, and after a long stay in hospital re- turned on the Accra as a convalescent passenger.
the
DRAWN REVOLVERS
The ship called at Las Palmas, in of Canaries, the birthplace Franco's revolt. Mr. Whyard went ashore to see the town, and in a cafe mentioned to the cashier that he had visited Spain.
When he returned to the ship two hours later, Mr. Whyard told me,
squad of police, with drawn re- volvers, prevented him embarking and took him to their headquarters.
After being searched he appeared before a judge. The interpreter was a Spaniard who, had been detained for Ave months on a charge of having served with the British Red Cross in Government Spain, and who had been could so badly beaten up that he walk only with the aid of a crutch.
Mr. Whyard was informed that the
Visa Spanish Government
on his passport and various passes he had kept as souvenirs, had convinced the authorities that he was a spy.
He gave an account of his move- ments before and after leaving Spain. He demanded to see the British Con- cul.
He was not allowed to do so. After Interrogation by other off- cials, he was inken before military tribunal and asked where he had which left the attache case with He had landed, and who were his at- complices. But he had not Innded with a case.
Then he was told that his British passport was not genuine, and was Recused of being a Government oficer.
Finally he was told that he would be shot, and was locked in a cell outside which sat two armed police. Throughout the night the guard took great pleasure in conveying to him by restures the agonies of execution. He managed, unseen by them. lo scribble messages to the British Consul on pieces of cigarette carton, and threw them through the win- dow, but they were never delivered.
At 10 am, he was chained and driven away in a car along a lonely roud. They reached a group of
by bulidings surrounded a double wall on which were look-out posts. Several times, as they neared the prison, the car was stopped by. soldiers with fixed bayonets who of the demanded the credentials
senlor offer in the cog,
Mr. Whyard was dragged out of the car and his manacies were re- moved. Then his hand was knocked up to the Fascist salute, and one of the guards made, gesture of pulling a trigger,
RUBBER TRUNCHEON
His clothes were taken from him and he was given rope sandals and old rags.
made to stand at attention in the centre of a cobbled courtyard beneath a glar- ing sun. Every time he move fraction he was beaten aarons the head or shins with a long rubber truncheon.
For six hours he was
Next phase of his torture was to make him carry heavy stones until he almost collapsed.
From fellow prisoners be Jearnt that more than 200 bad already faced the ring squad that year in the prison, and that those who were
dead were deemed luckier than those who still lived to be tortured.
During the night they learnt that one of them was to be shot in the morning.
"They were all shaking my hand. There was no commiseration, but rather congratulation," Mr. Whyard recalled.
Meals consisted of a thin cup of coffee at 8 am, a small bread roll and a bowl of bean soup at noon, and pannikin of vermicelli water
& p.
at
On this meagre diet prisoners had
to labour twelve hours a day,
"At the end of the day they were almost too weak to move," said Mr. Whyard. Their eyes burned like coal in their thin faces, and with their shaven heads, gave tliem al- most a demoniacal look.
theoretical students of contemporary civilisation and the men responsible for carrying it out; between the economist, the political theorist, the student of government and adminis- tration, on the one hand, and on the other hand the business man, the polllelun, the Civil Servant and the local government
Cleveland. officini, not to
George M. McKay, 65-year-old mention the ordinary everyday man driver for a soft drinks concern, is and woman.
retiring after 27 years' work for the PRACTICE AND
saine company. Ile estimates that "I don't want the title," he said, since 1910, when he began deliver- and hope that nobody will come Ing bottled drinks in a two-cylinder pestering me about it," nutomobile truck, ho has carried
"I ran away from tites 50 years Է ԷՍ, Since then I have sold fish. passed to Sir Tankerville, and after Two days later came a surprise dabbled in dairy product, grown this death to his sisters. vegetables, and kept an hotel.
THEORY CO-OPERATE
par-
"I have, accordingly, been much more than 8,000,000 cases and 104- impressed by what I have heard of 000,000 bottles of the beverage to the recent developments in the Uni- the Arm's customers. versity of Modern Studies in which, again as an industrialist, I am most directly interested, Wint I ticularly refer to in the procedure of bringing to Oxford experts from the practical field to. co-operate in the theoretical study of social (in which terms I should include economic and political) problems,
Green Lights Synchronised
Salem, Ore. With the now street lighting system
at approximately 15
"I came to Australia with my brother John. We had letters to the Governor-General.
"I opened my hotel in Sydney-and kept it open all night.
"BIT OF A BOHEMIAN**
"I was a bit of a bohemian, you
PLAIN MR. MORRIS
Mr. C. J. C. Wilson, soliciter to the "Some of them had been in this estate, said: "It was under the williving hell for over a year, but they of Sir Robert Morris, brother of Sir still possessed magnificent courage George Ceell Morris, that the estate behind their scars.
visit from the British Consul, Al- "It is simply a question of Sir though officials had denied the arrest George Cecil Morris deciding whether of Mr. Whyard, the Consul discover- he wishes to use the title or to remained where he was imprisoned. lle known as plain Mr. Morris. it he had learned by chance of the trini. And a son, the son would, of course, Next day Mr. Whyard was releus- succeed to the baronetcy eventually.ed, and after being kept under strlet I learn, however, that the new surveillance for two days was pinced bnroret's only san died a year asto, on a ship bound for England. but that he lias a married daughter." "It was so terrible that it all seems
scars on my ander caused by the le like a horrible dream now," he The Morris family have been large added, "except when I look at the
"I should like to ace this procedure synchronised, it is possible for motors know, and after I started the hotel landowners for centuries, and prac- -conducted on a larger sente, and its traveling under conditions which would foster miles per hour to pass entirely business I was never asked to tlently all the western section of irons we had to wear night and day. co-operation not only between the through Salem without stopping." 'Government Nouac,
| Swurzen is bufit on, their lond.
And then I know that it was real"
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